With an abundance of cell phone, televisions, computers, and tablets in homes and offices across the US, it is not difficult to find that sexual content is available at any time or place. ... Models on Instagram, selfies on Facebook, sexually charged commercials, porn applications for your phone – sex is abundant in lives today. ... Whether the method of communication is a television in a home or restaurant, downloadable phone applications, car radios and music in stores, or computers at work, we are surrounded by media and search tools that can lead to any genre of specific content. ......

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For example, it is controversial whether to include cell phones, video games and computer games (such as MMORPGs) in the definition. ... However, modern cell phones are no longer a single use device. Most cell phones are equipped with internet access and capable of connecting to the web which itself is a mass medium. A question arises of whether this makes cell phones a mass medium or simply a device used to access a mass medium (the internet). There is currently a system where marketers and advertisers are able to tap into satellites, and broadcast commercials and advertisements directly to c...

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Adolescence can be a difficult time, even under the best of circumstances. Adolescents and young adults are engaged in discovering their own identity while also trying to "fit in" with their peer groups, classmates, and coworkers. The forces that shape these developmental processes have grown increasingly more complex and contradictory in the age of the Internet. Young people are exposed to more media influence than at any time in history, and media messages can and do have significant effects on fashion trends and popular fads among young people. The very nature of peer communicatio...

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