Sunday, July 27, 2008
Influence of Media Article 7.27
The article called "The Future of Children" by Soledad Liliana Escobar Chaves and Craig A. Anderson mainly addresses the negative influence of the media on American society, more specifically on its children and adolescent audience today. The article shows various examples of media, such as TV shows, with their commercials, movies, video games, the Internet, music, music videos, and print media and their effect on children who watch/play/experience high levels of the specific media. The article cited many studies of different types, including, experimental short term stuides, longitudinal studies, and cross sectional studies. Each type of study had results which concluded that an increased exposure to media and media forms has lead to and will continue to lead to an increase in obesity (due to an increase in calorie intake and a lack of movement), smoking, alcohol use and abuse, sexual experimentation, and especially violence and or crimes. The studies all conclude that their is not enough data to specifically locate or predict outcomes of this trend but they also show a definite correlation between hightened media exposure and negative behavioral traits.
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Thanks for the response. I agree, I also found the article slightly overwhelming. And I wasn’t sure how much of the information I could take as factual statistics. It just seemed as if most of the material was purely probabilistic and based on things that couldn’t possibly be determined for certain. Yes, the media is to blame for much of the downward spiral of our culture, but I wouldn’t jump directly into the specificity of some of the figures.
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