Media Influence on Youth

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Media Influence on Youth

Attention Step: Let's find out a little of how sex in the media gets a really big influence on youth.

Thematic Sentence: The media is such a powerfull tool, its influence are used to mold the thoughts and views of the rather vulnerable minds of our youth today.

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Teens and Sex

1- Three out of four teens say "TV shows and movies make it seem normal for teenagers to have sex."

2- A study of 4,294 network television commercials found that nearly one in 4 commercials includes some type of sexual attractiveness as a base for the message.

3- Four out ten teenagers say they have gotten ideas for how to talk to their boyfriends and girlfriends about sexual issues from the entertainment media.

Music Videos and MTV channel

1- MTV, the favorite TV of girls 11-19 regularly includes girls and women in the traditional role of sex object, as seen infeatures on the network and many music videos.

2- A study from the mid-1990's shows that 90% of the top 100 music videos shown on MTV were directed by men.

3- Music Videos and Lyrics imply that teens, especially female teens should feel free to be sexually active and sex is becoming the style at a young age.

What's the problem? Facts about Sex and the Media

1- Unrealistic and Unhealty portrayals of female sexuality.

2- Sexual Health.

3- Gratuitous female sexuality and Nudity.

References

"Media Violence," AAP Committee on Communications in Pediatrics, Vol.95, No 6, June 1995.

"Suggestions for Parents: Children Can Unlearn Violence," in the Center for Media and Values (now the Center for Media Literacy) Media and Values, No 62, 1993, "Media and Violence: Part One: Making the Connections."

www.crisisconnectioninc.org/teens/media_influence_on_youth.htm

teammag.free.fr/Influence.html

Obiekwe, Nneka. "Media Influence on Youth Today." Youth Radio. 2008.