Mass media poses many effects on our society and that statement alone can sum up exactly what mass media does. Mass media projects images, advertisements, commercials, texts and many other types of visual influences in an effort to usually sell something or expose us to a message or ideal. Mass media is also such a broad topic it is a hard one to cover and the broad range of effects on our society becomes evident as well. Mass media bombards us with images of beauty, gender roles, racial and economic status in an effort to influence us to buy or feel a certain way and it usually works because just about everybody views people, feels a certain away about something or about themselves due to the images that they saw or heard from mass media. For example, the media portrays advertisements of unrealistically skinny women and this has caused many eating disorders and a general dissatisfaction of women’s appearances by both genders. The media also portrays certain races such as African-Americans as being thugs or trouble-makers on TV shows and on commercials and this usually causes people to develop stereotypes against groups of people.
These real life examples show that the impact of media supports learning outcome 2 which is the awareness of potential for educational, political, or ideological influence of the media. The claim that media exposes us to so much in an effort to sell something or expose us to an ideal and the real life examples show that media has the potential to affect all of the things stated in the learning outcome. It fits perfectly because obviously, media has a tight grip on many if not all of the aspects of our lives.
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