Chapter 12 brings up the issue of how television and the media heavily influence children today. If it weren’t just for the purposes for this I say media has a huge effect on everyone. There is advertising everywhere; one the internet, t. v., in certain songs, in video games among others. This advertising of different things is the reason children do certain things. The influence of the media is a heavy factor in why young girls today develop eating disorders and want to look like the like girls from the reality show “Jersey Shore”. And another big thing is that sex is all over the media. This idea of sex pushes our youth to pretend to be adults when they are not ready too.
But the technology we have today, televisions, games, internet, ipods etc, are causing a huge distraction the children’s lives. Children have become less interested in doing history homework and more interested in posting pictures on face book. They would rather play black ops instead of doing geometry homework. This distraction is affecting the live of our youth. I know a lot of young people who push off homework to text on their phones and look on face book. They will stay up until after 2 in the morning because that’s the time they finally finish their homework. Now my question is do you think there is a way to harness the media to push children to focus more and put their work first?
