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Mass Media
Sections 1-5
9.1: Understanding Mass Media
Plural of medium, which is an intervening means through which a force acts or an effect is produced
culture: learned behavior, including knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, customs, skills, and traditions
Media can change, enhance, and interfere
9.2: Chronosystem Influences on Mass Media
Media is more accessible and convenient.
Interactive media has taken over our culture
Advertisements are a part of this influence
9.3: Macrosystem Influences on Mass Media
Broadcasting restrictions have been eased throughout time. There are ways that parents/caregivers can prevent exposures
9.4: TV and Movies
Children can understand tv/movies without knowing language, so it is appealing to them
Sleep habits, meal arrangements, leisure time, conversation patterns have all changed
Age-specific television requested for children
Social cognitive, cultivation, motivation, and displacement theory all contribute to these concepts
9.5: Screen Media and Socialization Concerns
Socioemotinoal development and relationships
Children spend 3-5 hrs on media
Affects interpersonal relationships, family time, etc.
Physical Development and health
Media consumption linked with obesity
Substance use and abuse: Adds for these behaviors are rampant, children cannot avoid them
Psychological development and behavior
Perception: reality is not the same as we view it on TV.
Genders are targeted in media/commercials
Agression/violence: shows children in very frightening predicaments- rated in terms of prevalence, rate, and role. Violence is learned, they are desensitized, and there is a fear of being attacked. Desensitization- reduction in response after repeated exposure
Cognitive development and achievement
Exposure to commercials affects children's growth. Children tend to be impulsive
Smoking/drinking glamorized in media
Stereotype: Oversimplified representation of members of a particular group
TV takes less effort
Children cannot connect symbols well
Moral Development and Values
Altruism in the media helps children with these same behaviors
Sexual references have gone up in the last decade
Developmental level, psychological needs, attitudes, motives, habits, interests, values, morals, beliefs, and experiences are all intervening influences.
Selective Attention: Choosing stimuli from one's environment to notice, observe, and consider
Sections 6-10
9.6: Mesosystem Influences on Screen Media
School, peer group, family
School-Media linkages: Can help with educating students and provide a solid foundation for instructors
PBS, cable, recording devices, public interest groups,
Peer Group-media linkages: Social media links friends
Family-media linkages: Families must mediate the incoming media to make sure it is up to their standards.
9.7: Books and Magazines
Books/magazines up to the interpretation of the reader
Reading to children can help with cognitive development and language skills as well as understand themselves better
Role Models, values, cope with problems, understand feelings,
Hard to determine reality vs. fantasy
Violence and Stereotyping affect readers in similar ways TV does
9.8: Popular Music :
Teens use music to motivate and control mood, communicate their influences.
Lyrics: contagion- phenomenon in which an individual exposed to a suggestion will act on it
Music videos are their own genre- usually have sexism, are overly sexualized, and tend to be full of substance abuse
9.9: The internet
Pool of information, hard to keep information down that is not okay.
Viruses, worms, spam mail, privacy issues, etc.
Information overload
social networking: access inappropriate or overwhelming material, exposed to porn and hate, misled with advertising, and register with unknown info on websites that can't be trusted.
9.10: Devices and Games
Young people on media more than 8 hours
Computer games, such as Nintendo or Wii, play on TV, computer, or device. Video games make people more aggressive and less caring, no matter the age
Videos
Great Lie
Pornography is everywhere
Pornography is fiction
Pornography can be more powerful than drugs and other addictive behaviors
Things as they really are
We may do things we otherwise wouldn't because 'it is only a game'
There is no lasting value to these materials
Seeing the Savior will be a real- not a virtual circumstance
Twelve Steps to recovery
Agency is restricted or lost through addiction.
Jolts and Tricks
Human brain is wired to react to situations
56% of teens have a tv in their bedroom
Gospel
Protect our homes, renew our powers
There are so many forces that are attacking our homes. Being diligent in media control is vital.
Put a ditch around your home- homes compare to the temple
strong timbers and tall pickets on top of the dirt
Have towers as places of security to guard the home
Addiction recovery
Twelve steps to embrace spirituality and leave behind addictions