The Effects of Mass Media

Media can either have a postive or negative effect on all of us. When we are looking at a media text, no matte what we do it is going to change us in someway. Media can tell us how to act, how we should dress, what we should and shouldnt do. It tells us who we are in a way. For example, we are all part of semotic domains. Within those domains we are told how people in them should be and act. So while we all are apart of many semotic domains that are all very different from each other, we all are being effected by those domains to act a certian. Teens are effected most by this in my opinion. They watch tv and read magaizes that tell them you should look a certian way and you should act like this. They change who they are so that they can fit into the standards that they think are right. If everyone was to look at media as something that is imforational and something that can be entertainment but not as a guideline for life, then we all might be able to break the feedback loop and stop it in a way.