Sunday, April 26, 2009
Web Video: The Media and Your Children
This is my web video made using Jaycut. This video's purpose is to raise social awareness of the harmful effects that the media can have on children - mainly, the sexually charged images that children see in media every day. These such images have a strong influence on their actions and their though process.
Since there are no federal restrictions on this kind of media, children are exposed to it daily. Often times, television shows, movies, advertisements and music influence our culture so much that they become the essential teachers of the cultural norms. Our society has become so influenced by these images that at a young age children are not being taught how to be good people, but rather how to be cool and follow the lead of stars such as Britney Spears, Lil Wayne and Paris Hilton. Not exactly good role models!
It is my belief that this kind of inappropriate media is partly to blame for sexual violence, illegal drug use and other violence. If children are exposed to media that teaches them to be cool you have to show skin, have sex and do drugs, then they will. They learn from observation, and these images are what they see!
This media is full of things that any normal parent would not want their children to be taught! Since the government fails to protect our children's safety in this way, it is up to the parents. It is important that parents do their best to protect children from inappropriate media.
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I really liked the video. I hate how advertisers use the male and female body to sell a product. Their bodies say nothing about the product being sold and the images are terrible for the children of America to be seeing. I guess decency went out the window a long time ago.
Media regulation through government mediation is a terrible idea, since each family has its own standards on what is appropriate to watch. I wholeheartedly agree that parents need to do their job to monitor their own children according to their own individual standards. It frustrates me when parents feel that the job needs to be in the hands of the suppliers of this media. If no one thought that kind of content was entertaining, it would not sell, and thus would not still be on the air. There is only so much that can be done to regulate television from the networks' standpoint anyway. What are they going to do, password protect it? That's what V-chips are for.
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