"How does Mass Media Affect Socialization in Children and in Young Adults? (Week 7)
Monday, 28 August 2017 | 23:07:00 | 0 Words
The mass media, internet and other sorts of technology have all become major things in our society. It seems as if mass media, internet, cell phones, and all these other high tech gadgets are needed tour society function and sadly help us human beings to function as well. If one day the internet and these forms of technology were taken away from us, what would become of our society? Would we be like wild beasts going crazy because we don't know what to do with our lives? Sadly in today's society technology has become our best friend that we can barely live without. In this clip shown below is a scene from South Park that shows how human beings are so in need of technology that we don't know what to do when the internet is taken away from us.
Media is one of the main four agents of socialization that affects youth the most. This is because the media covers the radio, television, and print. There is also electronic media, which includes the use of computers, cell phones, iPads, etc. According to the article “Facts about the Influence of Media on Young People” it says “The youth represents majority of the population. Teenagers and young adults are part of this group. They represent the significant percentage of people who are self-conscious of their image; hence they are the target audience of producers and advertisers. The influence can be good or bad, depending on how the individuals respond to the media products”. Since young adults are the targeted audience they are more easily to be influenced than any other age group by the media.
Nothing has really been done to help stop the influence on mass media. Our lives revolve around mass media and people are starting to become more unaware of the negative things that are shown in mass media. In almost every movie there is some type of violence going on. Since 1955 with the TV show called Gunsmoke there was violence going on in television, cowboys shooting other cowboys and people doing deviant things such as rape, killing people, robbing banks, etc.
