The Media Monster
It seems as if kids today are trying to find a new way of escaping their reality, and making their dreams into something that is not real. For example, tuning into their favorite celebrities social media page, or finding out what the new trends of today consist of, but the media also helps us to find out issues in our political system. Kids today are more awake to social and political issues and tend to rebel more against the current status quo that’s placed in our society today. Especially since kids today grow up with smartphones and social media it opens up more boundaries of them having opinions of their own. Unlike back then, our source of news was on TV, Newspapers, and Magazines and not much Internet as we use today. …show more content…
According to Monica Anderson and Paul Hitlin of the Pew Research Center illustrate how social media encourages others to get involved with a cause or social movement #BlackLivesMatter. “The rise in critical tweets was especially notable after the killing of police officers in Dallas.” (Anderson) Who is the victim? Who is the enemy? The way social media gave us our view was that we saw videos all over the internet showing minorities to be the victim of police brutality which made made us perceive cops to be corrupt, unfair, and disloyal to protecting the people and be in favor of the government because they uphold a higher title rather than listening to both sides spreading racial tensions across the nation when in reality all situations differ from each other. Headlines on newspapers, internet media articles, mainstream media, all exaggerating one side of the story instead of giving the overview of the event that occurred pointing to the direction of us being influenced by the media to form our own …show more content…
According to Monica Anderson and Paul Hitlin of the Pew Research Center illustrate how social media encourages others to get involved with a cause or social movement #BlackLivesMatter. “The rise in critical tweets was especially notable after the killing of police officers in Dallas.” (Anderson) Who is the victim? Who is the enemy? The way social media gave us our view was that we saw videos all over the internet showing minorities to be the victim of police brutality which made made us perceive cops to be corrupt, unfair, and disloyal to protecting the people and be in favor of the government because they uphold a higher title rather than listening to both sides spreading racial tensions across the nation when in reality all situations differ from each other. Headlines on newspapers, internet media articles, mainstream media, all exaggerating one side of the story instead of giving the overview of the event that occurred pointing to the direction of us being influenced by the media to form our own
It seems as if kids today are trying to find a new way of escaping their reality, and making their dreams into something that is not real. For example, tuning into their favorite celebrities social media page, or finding out what the new trends of today consist of, but the media also helps us to find out issues in our political system. Kids today are more awake to social and political issues and tend to rebel more against the current status quo that’s placed in our society today. Especially since kids today grow up with smartphones and social media it opens up more boundaries of them having opinions of their own. Unlike back then, our source of news was on TV, Newspapers, and Magazines and not much Internet as we use today. …show more content…
According to Monica Anderson and Paul Hitlin of the Pew Research Center illustrate how social media encourages others to get involved with a cause or social movement #BlackLivesMatter. “The rise in critical tweets was especially notable after the killing of police officers in Dallas.” (Anderson) Who is the victim? Who is the enemy? The way social media gave us our view was that we saw videos all over the internet showing minorities to be the victim of police brutality which made made us perceive cops to be corrupt, unfair, and disloyal to protecting the people and be in favor of the government because they uphold a higher title rather than listening to both sides spreading racial tensions across the nation when in reality all situations differ from each other. Headlines on newspapers, internet media articles, mainstream media, all exaggerating one side of the story instead of giving the overview of the event that occurred pointing to the direction of us being influenced by the media to form our own …show more content…
According to Monica Anderson and Paul Hitlin of the Pew Research Center illustrate how social media encourages others to get involved with a cause or social movement #BlackLivesMatter. “The rise in critical tweets was especially notable after the killing of police officers in Dallas.” (Anderson) Who is the victim? Who is the enemy? The way social media gave us our view was that we saw videos all over the internet showing minorities to be the victim of police brutality which made made us perceive cops to be corrupt, unfair, and disloyal to protecting the people and be in favor of the government because they uphold a higher title rather than listening to both sides spreading racial tensions across the nation when in reality all situations differ from each other. Headlines on newspapers, internet media articles, mainstream media, all exaggerating one side of the story instead of giving the overview of the event that occurred pointing to the direction of us being influenced by the media to form our own