Transcript Youth and Media

Youth and Media
By
Dr. Sayed Waqar Hussain
Composition
• A-The Role of Youth in Media
• B-The Influence of Media on Youth
• C-The Freedom of Media
A-The Role of Youth in Media
• Youth: the time of life when a person has the
greatest possible desires and the highest
possible energies to fulfill them.
• Media: The main ways through which most of
the people receive information and
entertainment i.e television, radio
,newspapers (Oxford Dictionary)
Continued
• Information ought to be in conformity to people
Right to Know:
Comprehensive,
Timely,
Unbiased.
Youth in Media
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Technical
Finance
Reporting
Talk shows Anchors
Editorial
Newscasters
63%
72%
86%
82%
16 %
90%
Composition and growth of Stories
Over the past 10(particularly last 6) years:
Exclusive Stories
58%
Reports
77%
Scandalous Stories
138%
Economic issues
54%
Rebuttals Declined by
24%
Agenda Setting
50%
Social Issues and Security
(Increase in Coverage)
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Addiction
Domestic Violence
Gender discrimination
Police tortures
Abduction for Ransom
Theft and Robbery
Corruption
36%
76%
88%
55%
66%
86%
115%
Economic Issues
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Development Schemes frauds 36
Misuse of Aid and Loans
46
Misuse of Authority by Ministers 110
Energy sector Fraud
72
FBR/ Tax Evasion
586
Trade
234
Overpricing
172
12%
34%
22%
28%
40%
35%
26%
The Cost of Right to Know
• 76 Journalists Martyred (Denial Pearl)
• Nasrullah, Saddique Bacha, Noor Hakim,
Wali Khan Babur, Noor Hakim, Ibrahim Khan,
Allah Noor, Amir Nawab, Hayat Ullah
Mosa Khan, Shoaib Khan, Mukarram Khan
Pervaiz Khan, Abdul Wahab, Asfandyar,
Marwat and Saleem Shahzd.
B-Media Influence On Youth
• Gap between information haves and
information have nots
• Up to age of 17, 250000, commercials are
being watched by youth.
• 69 % of the girls are Influenced by skinny
models to have a perfect body shape.
• Males too feel insecure about their physical
apperance
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• On the average youth are exposed to14000
sexual references.
• Music videos have more sex per minute than
any other genre
• Models and actresses are shown as sex
objects
• In 62% 0f ads, women are scantily dressed .
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• Body Doubles are used to make up for
imperfect body shapes
• Actresses diet and smoke to keep their natural
weight off
• 82 % of the movies show characters smoking.
As a Result
• Youth feel it normal to have sex
• Young girls are undernourished, losing menstrual
periods- fertility problems-health risks.
• Smoking among High school, college and
particularly university students is increasing
• Males feel insecure about their physical
appearance and involved in obsessive weight
training, use anabolic steroids and dietary
supplements for bigger muscles and stamina
violence
• 73% of the time a perpetrator goes ence
unpunished, that suggests that violence is a
successful way of resolving conflicts .
• 47% of the time violent action shows no harm
to the victims.
• 15 % shows no pain
• Only 16% shows long term –ve effects
As a Result
• Aggressive attitudes are being developed in
youth.
• Youth become desensitized to real world
violence.
• A fear of being a victim of violence is developed
• Coverage of real world violence, crimes, killings,
terrorists acts promotes crimes as they are
highlighted when they are committed but not
when they are punished
• And also because bigger crimes are committed to
create bigger head lines or breaking news.
C- Freedom of Press
• Freedom of communication and expression
through electronic and published material.
• Right to know
• Right to privacy
• News –An unusual event
• News- played up, play down
• Rebuttal of news
• Breaking News
• News is sacred
• Readers receivers or vitims of information
• Coverage of real world violence, crimes,
killings, terrorists acts promotes crimes as
they are highlighted when they are committed
but not when they are punished
• And also because bigger crimes are committed
to create bigger head lines or breaking news.