Are we puppets of the media?

As time have dramatically evolved to a more modern and advance way of disseminating and obtaining messages at the moment they have been published through technology. Media continues to play a huge role especially in keeping the society informed about news, whether local or internationally, helping and enriching a knowledgeable literate community from television programmes, radio shows and so fourth. Its main intentional focus is to enlighten the society on matters that really affects them, in some instances it has unintentional messages being disseminated on which it is mostly on the youth.

The media has been painting a picture in how we should dress like, what to eat, how to live and whom to associate with. Some of these suggestions proposed are even impossible and even life threatening as young girls are forced to look slim and be like magazine models, dress up to the latest trends, live a luxurious life and be seen with the “IT” people.

It has even led to people to have a certain way of thinking, with what effect, decisions to be made and actions.

It is indeed very questionable to what rate of impact the media has on the youth, as they do not play outside like past years in the sun and be involved into face to face conversations rather than being more in to social media/network (Skype, MySpace or Facebook) to communicate or watch television with lots of violence and explicit sex.

Now, how do we expect our youth to be leaders of tomorrow, when the media seems to be swirling the puppets, to which ever direction it believes to be appropriate?

A study by the Media scope institute found that many children have already, by age six, spent more time watching television than time they will spend talking to their parents in their entire lifetime.

I will conclude my argument by stating that we should accept media as one of a sum of a part of our lives but not make it a necessity that we cannot live without as its implications and intentions may not of building a moral and stable society.

Facing reality through fantasy

How life has matured beyond the explicit world. It has been known throughout the dawn of man until now isamaras.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/who-invented-porn/, that civilisations, cultures and communities have expressed and explored body art en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art manifesto using statues and paintings. Within the ancient duration nude imagery was viewed and portrayed as a form of art that was intriguing, unusual and extraordinary right up to being portrayed as being depicted and defined as a deed that was erotic, filthy and explicit.



David Jacques-Louis nude painting called Patroclus



With this in mind I seek to explore the media effects that came about to change perceptions and the introduction of mass media to being a persuasive medium. There has been a drastic change between generations by which the media has placed a portal bridge of refining their persuasive messages, for example way back in time audiences were persuaded to naked imagery by usage of magazines such as HUSTLER en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler , to now the message being disseminated to websites, television, cellular phones and the internet at large.

It has been the fast growing industry even since its dawn, were media has found its way to make profit out it, such as selling previously recorded videos, kamasutra http://what-is-kamasutra.com/ books, newspaper and magazines advertisement, with the hope of creating a demand to their audiences. It has since become to being “the in thing” were individual use this content as reference to gain experience with the aim of being educated/ informed about it.

In a nutshell, not even parental advisory is considered; it is now regarded as one of the ethical rule of broadcasting commerce. This is only a method of preventing any lawsuits for the actual viewer. Why do we think the subject called Life Orientation was introduced in schools? Learners turn to explore this content through various forms of mass media without their parents offering guidance and knowledge.