1. By Colby Van rysselberghe
Teens and Mass Media
By Colby Van rysselberghe

2. What is mass media?
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies that are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication.
This includes TV, movies, printed media, social networking cites and radio

3. Thesis
Before a child reaches there adolescent years, it is the responsibility of parents to monitor their child’s use of all forms of electronic media to ensure that they are correctly processing the messages that they are receiving. Once a child reaches their later teens parents must have faith in the lessons they have instilled in their child and let them decipher societies messages on their own.

4. Children and TV
By the time of high school graduation, they will have spent more time watching television than they have in the classroom
Young children are impressionable.
Connection between role models, advertising and the impact that these have on the way children behave.

5. Role Models
People highlighted in the public eye are not always suited to be good role models to children.

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8. Role Models
Many celebs and child stars have extreme and unusual upbringings.
Child stars often receive their education through private tutoring and home schooling versus receiving a private or public education.
1. Smaller social circle.
2. Less of an emphasis on team work.
3. Time restraints
4. Financial restraints

9. Double Standard
These “role models” who America’s youth is looking up to is often held to a “loose” interpretation of the law.
“Suburban Jails”
Shows the two-track system of justice in the United States in which the wealthy get privileges and perks behind bars while the poor are resigned to less comfortable and more dangerous conditions of confinement.

10. Electronics in the home
Children between the ages of 2 and 18 spend an average of almost five-and-a-half hours a day at home watching television, playing video games, surfing the Web or using some other form of media.
More time than parents spend talking to their kids each day
“TV Babysitter”
41% of children have a television in their room by age 5 1/2, and having a television in the bedroom was associated with sleep problems and less emotional reactivity at age 5 1/2

11. Electronics in the home cont.
More and More kids are being required to use the internet for schoolwork.
11 % of families with incomes of less than $35,000 have a computer, compared to 56 % of families with incomes above $70,000

12. Active role of parents
Toddlers reacted more to learning videos such as Baby Einstein when their parents watched the videos with them and put emphasis on certain parts.
Children who watched more than two hours of television per day from age 4 to 9 were more likely to develop sleep, attention, and aggressive behavior problems.

13. Social Interaction

15. Social Interaction
95 percent of 12- to-17-year-olds are online and 80 percent of them belong to social media sites.
77 % of parents said they have checked to see which Web sites their children had visited. That’s up from 65 % in 2006

16. Social Network Hazards
29% of teens have posted mean info, embarrassing photos or spread rumors about someone. 55% of teens have given out personal info to someone they don’t know, including photos and physical descriptions. 24% have had private or embarrassing info made public without their permission

17. Electric Friendships
Fifty-four percent of teen surveyed said they text their friends once a day, but only 33 percent said they talk to their friends face-to-face on a daily basis.
Teens are more likely to text a friend rather than call them.
Less personal interactions

18. Online Vs. Face to Face Friendships
Technology affecting social interaction more than intelligence.
Loss of empathy, and understanding of emotional nuances and ability to read social cues like facial expressions and body language.
“Digital natives”

19. Advantages Gives shy kids the opportunity to grow socially.
Less “scary” than face to face interactions.
Chat eliminates the idea of awkward silences

20. Parental Controls
66 percent of parents have checked to see what information is available online about their child. Half of the parents reported using parental controls on the child’s media
Stress on relationship

21. Conclusion Necessary involvement from parents at young age
Picking proper role models
Importance of social interaction
Limited time in front of a screen
Open to discussion about what we watch and do online with friends and family

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