Kaylia Brown Miranda Day Halle Koonce Lifestyle Effects Kaylia Brown Miranda Day Halle Koonce

What are lifestyle effects? Lifestyle effects are the ways in which the media has contributed into shaping people's personal lives  Socialization  Living Patterns  Intergenerational Eavesdropping

Socialization - learning to fit in society  American philosopher George Herbert Mead connected social experiences to the development of different personalities during the 20th century  Symbolic interaction, social behavior and pragmatism were the at the basis of Mead's works  Symbolic Interaction: study of communication and interactions between people  Social Behavior: communication process and behaviors between different beings  Pragmatism: theory that suggests problems through logic rather than emotions  Today socialization poses a bit of an issue as bad influences are exposed to younger, more innocent audiences too soon  Children are learning more from others than parental figures

LIVING PATTERNS – a daily routine  Book by Lionel G. Harrison contributed to the understanding of Living Patterns   Book is Kinetic Theory of Living Pattern, published in 1993  Media and lifestyles are intertwined - with the changes in media come changes in people’s lifestyles or “living patterns”  The first study started with how people were changing their patterns because of the radio and the television inside, now it has changed because we have handheld phones and we don’t have to stay inside to access them  Now almost everyone has integrated media and technology into their daily lives, we have become dependent on it

Intergenerational eavesdropping – unintentional listening and learning • Communication scholar, Joshua Meyrowitz, wrote a book in 1985 and contributed to new socialization effects of intergenerational eavesdropping. The media had boundaries between generations and gender, but now those boundaries have been stripped.  • This shows how much media affects children and that media consumption for children should be limited because they are being exposed to topics not suitable for their age.  • Children, today, get exposed to so much media and the children begin to ask questions that the parents are not prepared to answer. 

WORKS CITED  Vivian, John. “Chapter 13: Mass Media Effects.” Media of Mass Communication. 11th Ed, pp. 346–348.  Boundless. “Theories of Socialization.” Theories of Socialization | Boundless Sociology, courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/theories-of- socialization/.