Celebrities' Influence on Society Essay

When asked nowadays many people say they look up to superstar athletes and celebrities as their role models. The dictionary’s definition of a role model is a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people. Personally my definition of a role model is someone who sets great examples for others, people looking up to them, and being inspirational. The role models we choose are how we want our lives to look like in the future. We all need role…

Illusions, Not Reality”, Christian Ianniello asserts that companies sell illusions by using photoshop to make celebrities/models look thinner and flawless. In return, this causes young adults, who look up to them, to have eating disorders. As well as an article published in USA TODAY, “Swimmers Fight Body Image Battles”, Nicole Auerbach explains how cultural pressures to have a thin body by society contribute to anorexia and bulimia by using Olympic swimmers, who are in bathing suits half their…

Propaganda, performed “Boys!!! (A Word from Propaganda)” as a spoken word poem on Sho Baraka’s album “Lions and Liars.” Propaganda focuses on male maturity and the examples adults present for youths from a Christian perspective. Male celebrities have a tremendous influence on young male fans. This poems states, “when the options or aspirations are some combination/of criminal or athlete, actor, or rapper,” (line 26-28) are the mainstream media’s obtainable goals for young men to emulate. Within…

Media has been a platform for celebrities to share their personal life online. They perform everyday acts like gym sessions, going to a club, or a famous Hollywood premiere. Celebrities share their every move through social media applications like YouTube, Snap, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Vine. Through these technological lenses, audiences feel connected to celebrities in such a way that they feel like they know everything about the stars that they admire. Celebrities create this illusion…

behaviour. Consumption, regrading expensive clothing, cars and jewellery, is linked closely to celebrity status (Griffith et al. 2014). In American society,…

culture within a society that is very much invested in purchasing and owning material possessions” (Belk). It focuses on the happiness that is gained through buying and owning items, and one of the main features the consumer culture has is purchasing power. The most important aspect of consumer culture is that people identify and characterize themselves by the things they own, and the service they purchase, and with the help of the media,…

sensationalized, with more shows and scenes staged, and even completely scripted. Shows like The Real Housewives and Jersey Shore became popular because they were so sensationalized and so outrageous, and people starring on these shows became pseudo celebrities. Jersey Shore’s Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is a prime example. Not everyone watched Jersey Shore in it’s prime, but “Snooki” was common fodder for jokes and judgement, as the media appointed representative of the show’s dumb girl and binge…

Peter Rivera, was interviewed in the article and helps explain the effects on young boys with the idea of body image. “Some boys want to be stronger for sports, but others “want to change their body type”” Rivera explains. It is the exposure to celebrities with an ideal body type that encourages and pushes young men to try to change their bodies, and to push their bodies to a capacity it isn’t ready for. It is also shown by a Alonso Huizar a 16 year old, that he admires Cristiano Ronaldo who is…

Plastic surgery is a widely used procedure that celebrities us to appear younger and better looking, in this sense looking handsome or beautiful is the main objective even if it takes a beauty loop hole. "Celebrity skin, is this your chin is this the war you're waging," points out having "celebrity skin" is a fraudulent way of living and portraying yourself as someone that you are not. Waging war against natural physical…

A New Era in Late-Night TV with Stephen Colbert --Responsibility and Influence of Mass Media Nowadays, there are so many people can not sleep regularly, so it emerges various late-night TV shows. And the one of the most popular late-night TV show, called The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert, who is an extreme right-wing blowhard celebrity, would like to give his own voice in public. However, in Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he sheds his political persona and interviews the…