The media is a source of influence on everyone, including adolescents, but the influence on a young person is usually stronger due to his age, inexperience and excessive gullibility.
Formation of values
A teenager is a person whose personality is in the process of formation. As a rule, he has not yet fully decided what he loves, what point of view he adheres to, what political, moral, spiritual and other views he has. He tries to form his own opinion, accumulating and analyzing what he sees and hears around him. These are the conversations of parents, and the reasoning of friends, and books, and, of course, the media.
Unfortunately, today the world media often take on the role of not only educators, but also the role of analysts, presenting information in such a way that a person learns both about the event itself and how to relate to it. As a rule, such tactics, when information is distorted or painted in black and white through the media, leads to the fact that a person, and especially a teenager, forms a certain attitude towards certain events and foundations in life. For example, when a news story about a gay pride parade is presented with a negative and judgmental connotation, a teenager will more easily perceive such an attitude towards gay people as normal, generally accepted, since young people are more inclined to trust other people's opinions than adults. Of course, it cannot be argued that every teenager has such a mindset, but there is no reason to argue with the fact that naivety and receptivity at a young age is considered the norm.
Thus, the media, trying to explain what is good and what is bad, have a direct impact on the formation of values in a teenager.
Picture of the world
One of the most important sources of information about the political and economic situation in the world for a teenager is the Russian and world media, whose messages he watches both on television and on the global network. The idea of what and in what form is outside his own city, region and places where he has ever been, are formed solely on the basis of news and other information coming through radio, television and the Internet. The so-called picture of the world is largely drawn not by the teenager himself, but by the hands of journalists, reporters, presenters and video operators. In the future, when a person already on their feet will have enough rights and opportunities to think, travel and reason on their own, the picture of the world will certainly change. However, while a person is in adolescence, his resources are significantly limited.
