The media undoubtedly affects our behaviour, in majority of the aspects in life. From something as basic as forming gender roles, to something more complex like handling relationships, such as dating or courtship, media affects us regularly.
"Actions speak louder than words", we being social animals, conform to certain actions that the media portrays as correct ways of behaving in relationships. Whether or whether not, at that particular moment we feel what we are doing is right or wrong, we still end up doing it because our brain resorts to memories that we recall seeing on television as the right way to handling things. Mass media presents relationships in a totally different light from real life, or reality. Plus in the media there is variety. There are the negative and the postitive - the more fatasy, fairy-tale like relationships and then on the other hand, the very spiced up: extra-marital affairs, cheating on each other, having family problems, etc, type of relationships.
The definition of a relation or dating, should actually be felt by us, naturally and not be affected by the media. But fortunately or unfrotunately it does. The media defines certain social features. Realtions and Dating too, is a part of these social charecteristics, emotional chords that media touches, is just one of the reasons the media is so popular in the first place!
Relationships are portrayed in all channels of the media, in television in particular through, movies, video clips and soap operas:
Movies - romantic genre of movies revolves around nothing but this! They portray how a perfect relationship should be. What are the common things that a guy should do to keep the girl happy and how the girl should behave to keep the guy happy.
Video clips- usually the lyrics and videos coincide. The lyrics are of 'missing you', and the visual is of a guy or girl being lonely, walking alone, singing, missing their partner, crying for them.
Soap operas- these just cross all boundaries! Men and women, are getting married, divorced, married, again and again. There are no limits. People are cheating on each other, forgiving each other and getting back. Then one thing leads to another, so on and so forth. It's unbelieavable, and yet it affects the audiences to a great extent.
These things seen and heard by the media, begin to mould our thoughts and shape our views about certain things, mass media comes under the sendary sector of socialising a human being, and thus, it does.
I believe that the mass media plays a huge role and is a deciding factor, on what we should do to make our relationships better. We indirectly take advice from these mediums. Even if its not in out nature to be jealous, if we see out favorite actress in a movie, playing a role of a jealous girlfriend, sometime in our relationship with our partner, we would show jealousy and possessiveness.
This in turn, is just one example.
Media influences us throughout our lives. Be it books, television or even music. We begin to believe what they portray, it is after all - only human nature!!
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