Professional Career Research Paper

The media has a certain way of portraying; better yet, glamorizing different types of professional careers. Be it a police officer to an attorney, to what I will be discussing today, science and/or scientist. The media i.e. TV and movies, makes these careers look so appealing, which is so not what the career is really. Science and scientist are often portrayed in the media to be something in the realms of the science in Jurassic Park and scientist are usually older men in white long coats with glasses and crazy white hair like the Professor scientist in Back to the Future. As an adult I know that the media has glamorized these professions but there are so many out there that actually think that these types of movies or media are really how science works and how scientists look like. Young people, who have very little experience in science except for what they learn in school, might in fact believe that this field is actually how the media portrays it. These young people may decide early on to go into this field under false pretense and come to a rude awakening if they do decide to pursue this career. The media in itself can be a great tool for the mass proliferation of information for so many different things, but what the media needs to do a better job of is how they portray certain professions. Science and those in the field of science do not need to have their career overly glamorized in …show more content…
In this paper I will discuss how the media’s portrayal of science and scientist can affect how the general populace views this field and what the long-term impacts of how the media depicts this