My question: "Does present-day media affect student's bad-decisions?"
Before I even went onto the library page, I wrote a mini-diagram about how I am going to approach this.
I broke it down by first examining the age group I am going to be projecting: 18-21. Then I pulled from my question "present-day media". I broke that down into music, TV, and new.
Under music I listed; rap, rock ect.. but then asked myself "what is this age group's most listened to music (most poplar)?"
Under TV I listed; shows (from episodes to gossip channels) and movies. Then I somewhat combined music and TV and listened "Music Videos". I asked what is this age groups most popular shows and movies?
Under news I listed; gossip (Facebook, magazines, ect..), facts (newspapers, local news, world news, ect.. (I pondered on this thought as listing these as facts because I wasn't really sure how determine what was actually considered 'facts vs gossip' therefor brought me to that inquiry! "Is it important to know what is going on around the world or local area?"
Then, I labeled a few bad-decisions that all these senses of media portray; drug abuse, sex, alcohol consumption (binge drinking), crime, violence, and 'slacking'.
Now that I talked about how I started off, I am going to continue the assignment by using the library resources.
I searched up most of the items I have listed prior to this paragraph and came up with more and more questions yet to be answered. There seems to be an endless list of possibilities of reasons why college-aged students would make "bad-decisions". A good point that I did come across is that I should have also listed video games into my list of media-based things. Also to take into account; when I asked "present-day media" I didn't really pay too much attention to the "present-day" portion of that. It sounds goofy, but present-day 'kids' are raised differently than, say, people who are 20-years older. Technology and media has grown drastically, in my own words, people know more now than they did. I came across a study that brought up the topic "leisure time". Do college-age students have more leisure time than they did, say, 20 years ago? Also, a survey done said that the top-three favored music genres were; 1-hiphop, 2-country, and 3-rock and roll. From personal experience, I know that media shows all different types of 'bad-decisions' being portrayed by popular 'faces'. After the short research I have done, I have concluded that there is A LOT more questions to be asked to even start off saying that the media really does affect bad-decisions. I need to go more in-depth into all the questions I have asked already and try to find answers and facts to back up my inquiries.
DJ:
ReplyDeleteThis question still needs some work, because it's assuming that there are already "bad decisions" being made.
Also, it's kind of obvious that the media can "effect" us (and what do you mean by "effect"?)
I think a better question might look at how are scandals portrayed in the media, or how teens, in particular, respond to celebrities or media scandals.
We can talk more about this in class.