Another example of how I use the media, in everyday life, is a simple thing like driving and the many things that you observe while driving. ... It would be my guess that I spend an average of two hours a day listening to the radio, and because I am currently enrolled in school, I surf the internet on an average of four hours a day, whether it be for educational purposes or for entertainment. On an average, I spend 63 hours a week with the media, not to mention the times that I am driving and I see an ad on a billboard or a road sign. ...

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Another example of how I use the media, in everyday life, is a simple thing like driving and the many things that you observe while driving. ... It would be my guess that I spend an average of two hours a day listening to the radio, and because I am currently enrolled in school, I surf the internet on an average of four hours a day, whether it be for educational purposes or for entertainment. On an average, I spend 63 hours a week with the media, not to mention the times that I am driving and I see an ad on a billboard or a road sign. ...

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A study of a driving safety campaign on Facebook, called the Driving Safety Facebook Group (DSFG) revealed that members of the community reached out to other members and contributed freely to promoting safe driving. ... I was first taught to explore Wikipedia for school project work. ... I would read the posts by friends of my old school friends and "like" them simply because my school friend knew the person. ... I began believing that schools were not what they used to be. ... I was impressed that the school would take such efforts to educate its students. ...

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Hence, the audience bases their understandings from home, school, or work, and categorizes things from what we see in real life and the images we consume in the media (Sexual Stereotypes in the Media). ... Whether their child is exposed from television, from driving around the city, or even ads from school, parents cannot control everything their children are exposed to. ...

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In Sut Jhally's video "Dream Worlds 2, he makes an important comment that the way in which women are portrayed in the media is strongly influenced by the fact that men are the driving force of the market. ... In Sut Jhally's video "Dream Worlds 2", he presents data from a group of boys at the middle school age. ...

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Then, you have the teenage son, who is captain of the football team, is dating the head cheerleader, receives straight A's, and he is the most popular boy in the school. Lastly, you have the younger sister, who is a beautiful teenager, but whose life revolves around dating, the mall, talking on the telephone and going to school dances. ... Not to mention, that her life is so preoccupied with the above, that she has no time for school, and she receives terrible grades, but it is ok because she's daddy's little girl. ...

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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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Where it used to be the family, church, and school, TV is now the primary social communicator. ... String together the images of a woman serving a nutritious meal, comforting her small child, and hugging her husband, and contrast that with the images of a woman driving a luxury car, directing a business meeting, and managing a group of people. ...

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American posters focused on tradition and patriotism with largely positive messages and could be found anywhere that did not already have paid advertisements, including schools, railway stations, malls, restaurants and apartment buildings (Poster Campaigns, Terrance). ...

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How media portrays crime and the effect it has on the public In our everyday life, we rely on many different forms of media for both information and entertainment; from news channels, to television, even the video games we play all fall into the category of media. Since we have such a social connect...

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