media effects on society
media effects on society
A hope for a new, better media
We all know the media is a displeasing topic. The media often persuades the peoples’ way of thinking. It has been persuasive for the past generations. There are many, many examples of this, and over the years, it has gotten worse. It will not stop; in fact, it will most likely do the exact opposite and continue to corrupt people’s minds with impure images, stories, and controversies. The “man behind the mask” of this discrepancy is the celebrities, although not all celebs are corrupt, but most certainly many of them are. The media picks up on this and runs with it.
A website, heartmath.org, has many resources to deal with stress related topics. Although without looking in depth, it does not talk much about media effects on people. Although, there are some quotes I found on it that pertain to the media. Many of us humans are “hardwired to tune into danger, new things, or change”, and we often get used to the things around us. We are only alerted if something changes, something new appears, or something dangerous has appeared. “Certain images/stories/controversies can lead to stress” (heartmath.org). We hear stories on the news, from the media, and often become stressed because it affects our daily lives and we contemplate it constantly. This, obviously, causes much stress.
MindReal, a book by Robert Ornstein, also mentions the affects of the media on people. We rely on the media to give us our daily dose of gossip, news, and new fashion. The media takes what is given to them and twists it into unreliable information. They do not give a straight answer, and instead corrupt our minds. They tell us what to think, what to do, and what is going to happen. They say this is the way things are done and you cannot change them. Look at it as if it were a movie. When a movie is first shot, it is raw footage that looks decent. Once an editor gets his hands on it, it is manipulated and changed to a story that can either look good or horrible. The same goes for the media; the editor is the corrupt media, and the outcome is often worse than the raw footage.
An article titled Axemaker, is also another good source. It speaks of how media has changed from the previous years. In the past, it was not as corrupt as what it has become. It states that “we are currently stuck in short term thinking.” An example of this, as it goes on to talk about, is air pollution. “The long term health costs of the pollution are many times greater than the short term costs of cleaning up the air. In Mexico City, 72 percent of children have brain-damaging lead quantities in their cortex. The limited brain development because of this will perpetuate the cycle of Third World misery. In the few decades since its invention, the computer has brought change to almost every aspect of modern life and has made society so complex and interdependent as to make the old cut-and-control, reductionist way of thinking too hazardous to operate in its previously isolated and unaccountable way.” The computer has been an enormous factor in the way life is now. The computer allowed for media to be spread faster than ever before, and to a wider audience.
Ted.com is a website which has many links and stories that are actually worth talking about. For instance, it mentions how powerful photographs can bring a killer epidemic to the forefront; how a great movie can create real social reform, or even shows us shocking stats in clever new ways that we can’t easily ignore. It is a free, non-profit organization also. There are so many things that you could learn from that site, best of all, it is actually worth reading!
A video from ted.com speaks about celebrities and about our fixation with celebrities. Allison Jackson is a photographer and photographs the celebrities we are obsessed with. She talks about “what you think is real, isn’t really real”. In a photograph, the person may not exist, so it just makes you want them more. The mind plays tricks on us, it believes we want a certain celebrity that much more. We may see a celerity, and think it was a different one, then realize it was not the one we wanted ad just leave it as if we never knew it was them.
There are many other topics that are just as corrupt. The media is the main one and will be for later generations. Rather than gossip about the latest trend, converse about everyday happenings. Rather than pay attention to celebrities, focus on each individual. Rather than glamorize; Photoshop a cover of a magazine, leave in its raw state and recognize how truly beautiful women are. So I ask of you, what can you do to change the media for the better?
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what is a more dramatic and powerful way to say “the media is having a negative effect on our society”?
The media bombard us with sound bites, split-second images, and factoids that fill our lives with white noise and make us unable to stop and think.
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