Friday, February 5, 2010

Huge Self Acial Why Do We Allow The Media To Have Such A Huge Influence On Our Behavior And Self-perception?

Why do we allow the media to have such a huge influence on our behavior and self-perception? - huge self acial

A strong, independent person is certainly not responsible to anyone about their choice of lifestyle. So, why the media seems our hopes, dreams and choices in daily life to steer?

Note: I recognize the degree of generalization in question. I am looking for answers to the problem of collective behavior, not the individual decisions.

16 comments:

Yemaya said...

Why? Because the image is the most powerful communication drives most human societies (the first began with the cave paintings) and became what is now bottom of the post-modern "the medium is the message."

We are a television company to reality, for the love of God, much more "self" of the things we ask?

So I'm interested in? How to escape the influence of the media? You can turn off the TV, throw the magazine star stupid hunter, Anorexia back to the fence 20 meters from the ideal of beauty, it can refuse to buy clothes in the latest trend or not, you may encounter, suited to our specific body type, but the images continue to be in our minds.
And I do not buy from someone who is not only influenced by the media today .. including the possibility of the opposite of what the media portrays as "normal" or "mainstream" behavior is a choice driven by the media .. . we are what we created ... not ugly, right?

~testube Jebus~ said...

Unfortunately, this is not a question of if we let the media on us, because there is more under the eyes. subliminal messages and things of this nature as our spirit is running constantly. Personally, I think pushing the media, what they think a celebrity would be the face every day is ideal. I mean shit, you can not see not even for food in a small town .... or Jennifer Aniston
"Brad" Ulin "in the world.

mar m said...

Good question. I recommend you for asking. Clearly the influence of the media in this country, most of us, myself no exception. I have something dismill I normally see in the media, because I know that interpretation, so we buy something or think a certain way. Until the mass of people understand it, this country leads to a peaceful occupation, if it is not already done so.
If you watch TV four hours a day, are asked to buy something over a hundred times.

Smahteep... said...

Because the media has a reputation for being biased and make propaganda for the public. Curiously, when the media or society in general would like to change or delete something in our social life and / or personal life, a story around him distort rather than to provide a neutral and impartial report. If there were an impartial report on the media, may not have much social controversy.

Negative perceptions influence our decisions in life, whether good, bad or indifferent.

Babs said...

I believe that people are naturally attracted to systems and institutions to them a sense of meaning, belonging and identity. In the modern world, where no longer exercise the religion and the community, the influence that are earlier, more frequent and accessible providers of these things the media.

It is impossible to be completely independent and self-sufficient in our beliefs and perceptions. These things are formed in us as children and adults. Was our field, they give us a sense of belonging. We say we are.

Why can not we find better sound sources to achieve this basic need of man? The sources that we felt needed, complete, no need to always better? I do not know. I wish I did.

The cat said...

Billybob a good point ... Parents need to intervene to prevent your child to the negative and positive effects of external influences the internal channel through cons ...

However ...!! There remains the question of why "we" the media influence on our behavior ... ? Finally, those who make it possible, and internalize the messages in the mass media, parents and children ...

These people have left control of the media are too lazy ... Just lazy ... because if you can find resources to keep them, what do inform the media, then you will find resources that they keep what they have to offer other media to inform ...

In other words, the person who turn on the TV or read a trash mag in the supermarket can easily go into a library or a conversation with people about their experiences and knowledge ...

But no! Because they are lazy! They simply accept what they spoon fed and do not try other ways of learning or communication ...

billybob... said...

The media base our decisions in the same way as any that would not affect us. I see who complain that parents, friends and teachers, the options for the unity of the peoples, but their influence can also be destructive if not more, than the media.

Who can deny that the parent is the most important factor in the development of young children, so some are saying that just because the media can have a negative effect, not that the parents teach their children to avoid or to influence better still, the question of the media.

We do not want to give only partly to a lack of confidence and direction that affect our youth today (which does not mean that what is) a little less, we have to find a solution found.

Franzia Kafka said...

Because the media are everywhere. You can not escape it. Media has been influential to our Lord addition, parents and nannies. The world has never been the general public, we have in the past two decades.

John Berger _Ways Read Seeing_.

Fallenan... said...

The media is an important thing now, you're right, it motivates most of us, to some degree. Racism, politics, religion, sexism, it is difficult to both sides of things, if you have gone through the whole time to see. I think if you are strong enough in his mind, heart and soul, must be able to make their own opinions and decisions to help or hindrance to the media.

Yahoogir... said...

If we, the media can have a big impact on them, it means that your IQ the same media that is 65 years.
The persecution of the media by Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and news about what they do. I can not imagine that anyone actually care what these two Airheads, let alone the report of his sinful behavior for many innocent children who are impressed to ..
The detailed records of everything that the media, Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell said the box on the other side.
Virtually ignoring what is in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world, worthy of your interest.
Finally, the collective behavior of America, the madness is, manifest in their hunger and thirst for garbage and waste, fornication, gossip, Democrats and Republicans in the collection of checks disadvantages outrageously large and murder of people each day ..
The press has no power except what is given by the individual.
Together, America has an IQ of 75, has come for the trial of God and shows no signs of remorse, the short term.
EndHistory.

Yahoogir... said...

If we, the media can have a big impact on them, it means that your IQ the same media that is 65 years.
The persecution of the media by Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and news about what they do. I can not imagine that anyone actually care what these two Airheads, let alone the report of his sinful behavior for many innocent children who are impressed to ..
The detailed records of everything that the media, Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell said the box on the other side.
Virtually ignoring what is in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world, worthy of your interest.
Finally, the collective behavior of America, the madness is, manifest in their hunger and thirst for garbage and waste, fornication, gossip, Democrats and Republicans in the collection of checks disadvantages outrageously large and murder of people each day ..
The press has no power except what is given by the individual.
Together, America has an IQ of 75, has come for the trial of God and shows no signs of remorse, the short term.
EndHistory.

ecogeek4... said...

I believe that the people can the media to influence them and their behavior, because it is a simple reference, widely known and readily available. The media continues to do, because he works and earns money.

cynic said...

I like intelligent women ...

To feel inadequate for this, feel what they consume (buy shit) things like a facial image, even better, because our natural beauty is not enough.

Lovely little Raspberry said...

How can you generalize your question, I will generalize my answer. By "we" I mean women in general.

It is a struggle for power. In the control women, a lot of control. If you can imagine, so subtle, that women must be improved, that our value is only on physical factors, which are not fulfilled without a husband and child basis, then you're on your way to check. We have a strong tendency to read the things that we know the consequences. The problem is that if we will understand what I said, we have our game uncertainties, and feels rather pointless the pursuit of security at any price.

The media have a model or an actress as the ideal, and we realized it was perfect, and we are not tough enough not mosturizer right with the right tags, or sacrificed enough of our hopes and ambitions of others. If you ever lied, what are ridiculous, you can get a degree of acceptance by the easy familiarity.
Most of his portraits of what should be the ideal woman is the windOW-dressing. The team of assistants, stylists, and so on ...
With models that argue not show how many are weak and malnourished that "look perfect". Wow ... As for promoting the image of "strong" women in the media. Health problems, infertility, mental and emotional disorders, and even worse: women who can!
Promote just "glamorous" aspects of their lives and that means do not measure it, we can not perfection, without outside help makes us vulnerable and insecure.
It is the psychology of marketing. If we feel incomplete if their products can not control us, and through us, all the rest. Women like nice things, and we want to be pretty. We're adorable when they are beautiful, and a large majority of women are always a bit of the feeling of love that is true or not.

And if they do not feel that we are unloved, and make failure than women, and almost everything.

TheMedia condenses our hopes in the category of love (and a gross misrepresentation of him!) Represents the ideal candidate to ensure that "know" who are not perfect, offers "almost nothing".
They make money, and makes very, very sad, feel better. After all, these men are leaders of important industries, and they feel good about yourself, why? Probably a woman to blame anyway ...
It's just the game that we play, we twisted sexual politics. And it can be difficult to deny that when we grew up with her mother believed, and our grandmothers felt that should be impressed by their daughters.
We are in the middle of the struggle for gender equality and the media like to remind us.

Mike D said...

I do not know. Why?

jonmcn49 said...

To the question on its head as a scientist. "Why is our behavior and perception of itself a strong influence in the media. Patella N fulfill social science thinking.

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