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Mass communication and problems - crime
This document discusses the effects of television and popular media on children and young people. It notes that television is the dominant medium for youth worldwide and that concerns are growing about the lack of quality programming and increasing availability of low-quality content featuring violence, sex, and unrealistic portrayals. The document presents several case studies of children seriously injuring themselves while wearing superhero costumes and engaging in risky behaviors inspired by the characters. It concludes that while media can negatively influence behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs, youth should aim to only let the positive aspects impact them and keep media exposure within limits.
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- 2. •Mass communication:- isa process in which a person, group of people or an organization sends a message through a channel of communication to a large group of anonymous and heterogeneous people and organizations. •Channels of communication include broadcast television, radio, social media, and print.
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- 6. Children/Young People &Media The proliferation and globalization of media are among the key factors that have shaped and defined the current generation of young people. In many countries, youth have access to a greater number of multi-media choices than ever before - conventional, satellite and cable TV channels; radio stations; newspapers and magazines; the internet and computer and video games. Indeed, mass media are making the world smaller, and culture and media are increasingly inextricable, especially for young people.
- 7. Children/Young Use ofthe Media Television: Television is the dominant medium for young people and adults around the world. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the number of television channels, household television sets and hours spent watching television more than doubled. There are now approximately 250 television sets per thousand inhabitants in the world. The prominence of television in young people’s daily lives makes it one of their major information sources about the world around them.
- 8. Radio: After televisionviewing, listening to the radio is the next most popular activity among children and young people worldwide. Most young people tune in to the radio primarily for music and entertainment. However, some local radio stations have been very successful in attracting and informing more socially active segments of the population, young and old alike. In some countries, listening to the largely political fare of public international radio broadcasters—the BBC, VOA, Deutsche Welle and Radio France International, among them—remains surprisingly high among young people. According to 2013 surveys, 16 percent of young people listened to international radio in Albania, 12 percent in Bangladesh and 21 percent in Nigeria. These relatively high listening rates testify to young people’s interest in political and social events, and reflect the need for high-quality information, still lacking in many countries.
- 9. Print Media: In contrastto the steady rise of other media, in many countries print media have experienced a setback from the role they once played. In part, this is a result of the improved quantity and quality of information available from television and radio. The publications in strongest demand among young people are those that appeal to their specialized interests—comic books and popular specialized magazines on computers, fashion, sports, science, business and music. Many are high quality, with slick and appealing content that cater to young people’s interests, yet are often too costly for the average young person (or adult).
- 10. The Internet: The internethas been gaining popularity among young people, though at a much slower pace than television and radio. In spite of significant differences among the developed and developing world, the use of computers and the internet is rising steadily, fastest among young men. That there are so many more computer-literate young people than adults indicates the younger generation’s greater interest in and aptitude for technological advances. Around the world, young users are increasingly turning to the internet as a source of information, communication, socializing and entertainment. At the same time, web access is the source of the greatest divide, both between countries (internet use in industrialized countries far outpaces use in the developing world), and within countries (internet use concentrated among wealthier and better-educated urban youth).
- 11. Quality of Mediafor Children & Youth: Growing Concerns over Lack of Quality & Control- As media options for most children have grown in recent decades, so too have concerns about the quality of media aimed at children. Growing numbers of parents, educators, researchers and policy- makers around the world are alarmed about the lack of quality media for children and young people and the growing availability of low-quality entertainment featuring violence, sexual content, undesirable role models and lack of diversity. There are also serious questions about the short- and long-term effects of this material.
- 13. Sociologists and researchersin different regions have observed some of the following adverse effects: growing influence of entertainment media on youth style and identity decreasing role of traditional sources of influence: family, school, community, religion, etc. appeal of individualism and personal, as opposed to collective or societal, achievement some confusion in values (misguided sense of right and wrong, of human relations)
- 14. Conti.. distortion ofreality and rising expectation gaps newfound culture of “glamour” and “celebrity” creation of harmful or unrealistic stereotypes; a promotion of intolerance or apathy emphasis on the banal and trivial; de-emphasis on education, creativity and culture tendency for young people to think less for themselves and to follow media-set agendas.
- 15. Satyam exec murder:Wife, friend inspired by TV show TNN | Oct 20, 2009, 03.46AM IST HYDERABAD: It seems the wife did it and the inspiration was from a Telugu crime show on TV. On Monday Anusha (21) and her 'friend' S Naveen Kumar (23) of Bholakpur were arrested on the charge of murdering her husband S Chandrasekhar (24). It was on Oct. 12 that the Mahindra Satyam executive's body was found dumped in Karwan. And it was the ubiquitous mobile phone that did the duo in. Cops found that Anusha had called Naveen 11 times between 11 pm and 11.30 pm on Oct. 12 and after five days of sustained interrogation the duo confessed and Naveen revealed the plan was picked from the TV show. The man, however, never saw it in full. When West Zone DCP C Ravi Verma asked whether he knew the murderers were caught in the end, Naveen replied "no", adding that he was confident of getting away.
- 16. Children and popularmedia Plato proposed to ban poets from his ideal republic, because he feared that their stories about immoral behavior would corrupt young minds. In modern times, moral pressure groups have tried to ‘protect’ children from popular literature, the music hall, the cinema, comics, television and ‘video nasty's. It’s important to see the issue of TV violence and children’s behavior in a broader social, cultural and historical context.
- 17. •Five cases ofserious injuries to children wearing superhero costumes, involving extreme risk‐taking behavior, are presented here. •Although children have always displayed behavior seemingly unwise to the adult eye, the advent of superhero role models can give unrealistic expectations to the child, which may lead to serious injury. •The children we saw have all had to contemplate on their way to hospital that they do not in fact possess superpowers. •The inbuilt injury protection which some costumes possess is also discussed.
- 18. •A 6‐year‐old boywas brought into the emergency department by ambulance after having fallen from a first‐floor window. This was an un witnessed fall. •He was wearing a Spiderman outfit with anatomically correct upper body muscle padding. •He had a large hematoma over his right frontal region, a closed right eye and a swelling over his right foot. •It was not known if he had lost consciousness at the time of the fall. •He had no amnesia and gave a clear history that he had been playing at being Spiderman and climbed out of the window himself.
- 19. The notion ofdesensitization involves the argument that heavy viewing of violent TV over time conditions viewers gradually to accept violence as normal, dulling their sensitivity to aggressive behavior in everyday life. The conditions of ordinary TV viewing may encourage us to relax and enjoy violent images. Arousal declines as the viewing of violence becomes reutilized. Drab man & Thomas (1984) found that children of 8 to 10 shown a video of aggressive behavior took longer to intervene in apparently real life violence between two younger children they were left in charge of than children who had not seen the video. However, such studies are still artificially lab-based and do not explore children’s own thoughts and feelings. The origin of such theories is again in the behaviouristic tradition of ‘behavior modification’. Observations suggesting densitization may in fact have been observing the development of children’s defenses against anxiety. TV viewing may influence not only behavior but also attitudes and beliefs… GENERAL STUDY ON EFFECT OF TV ON CHILDREN
- 20. Wrong interpretation oflifestyle
- 21. People leave theirown culture and start imitating that of television.
- 22. It forces usto think we are not perfect.
- 23. Conclusion We saw thatmedia has many negatives in it and has effected our lives to an extent yet we consider it to be a very important aspect . We should keep a limit to which we are influenced by it . Hence only letting positives sides of it influence us more!
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