If you own any type of social media, you can often come across a picture that can make you doubt your own image but as well as doubt the world around you. When you begin to think about the social schema in the modern age, you can think about how a majority of people change their self image over the years with how much we are being shown on how to look.
What do we often see on our social media page being shown off? I for one usually come across an Instagram model showing off a body picture with limited clothes on and living a lavish life. Eventually, a majority of fans that look up to or is inspired by that model, begins to develop a social schema where they feel as if they need to fit in with the society changing around them.
Why do we feel the need to change for society? Is it the attention that we seek? Are we having pictures of perfection thrown into our face that makes us feel pressured to change? With mass media being just at the touch of our fingers, we are usually seeing whatever is on the front page, explore page, or post for quite awhile until the popularity goes down.
Mass media can be viewed differently from everyone. It can be both a negative and positive thing. We can get breaking news within the same hour that the event happened. Generations before our time, it would take days or weeks until an audience was informed.
As most of us view any type of mass media, we might notice seminal perception. If we view content that is being shown to us often or repeatedly, it can be often viewed as subliminal perception. Subliminal advertising is made out to NOT be so obvious when manipulating you into doing or buying something.
A lot of celebrities will continue to advertise their products and post only positive reviews to show their viewers to get their hands on the “amazing” product before they’re all sold out. Until the buyer actually tries the product for themselves, they won’t know if the product actually lives up to all the positive feedback.
Not only do we only see the positive reviews, but often we usually only see a certain perception in pictures or videos that we see on mass media. We either see only the negative side or the positive side of a source, hardly ever do we see both sides. The perception we have on photos can very much differ based off of the limited information we have on the post.
In the text of “Perception in Mass Media”, they show examples of how some volunteers would perceive a picture depending on the mood they were in. This experiment I found myself being able to relate to.
When I come across a picture of a happy person having fun and i’m in a good mood, I begin to feel happy for them. Otherwise, if I find myself in a bad mood and browsing through Mass Media, I begin to feel annoyed at their happiness.
Everyone has their own perception on everything. When you have the mass media showing you the statistics of topics, it can be hard to turn away from the high percentages you see on a data chart. If we see a poll of how many people are getting sick or dying by vaping/smoking, sooner or later a majority of those who do smoke or vape will try to quit the habit.
With Mass Media having so many pro’s and con’s, it is all about someone’s perception on how they view topics throughout time. The background information they find on the platforms that we have access too, can very well even change their perception on how they view anything in our world even if it is good or bad.
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