2. ·Ever Since The Real World aired in 1992, MTV
has never looked back.
·MTV broke loose of it’s music origins and
continued into the “Real World”
3. MTV as a corporation would impact many viewers
thoughts and beliefs.
MTV continuously uses its large
viewing audience to convey what
is considered masculine and
feminine, or what is considered
popular or geeky. MTV reinforces
a structure which was already
created for those who watch to
live by.
Popular Geeky masculine feminine
4. In a lot of the MTV shows, the writers try to
introduce the audience into the show.
·For every fight between girlfriend and
boyfriend, the audience gets a perfect
view of the action which is addicting
and intriguing to watch
·With the audience so involved, we can
see why people try to bring these reality
television shows into their life.
5. The show takes 8 people from the Jersey
Shore area and forces them to live together.
The show’s main ingredient is alcohol which
usually leads to the drama/fighting.
6. Children and young teenagers watch MTV while
they are still easily manipulated.
·So we see young adults changing to what
the station deems as popular, masculine,
feminine, and what is considered good or
bad.
7. “They show us how to dress, look and
consume; how to react to members of
different social groups; how to be popular
and successful and how to avoid failure; and
how to conform to the dominant system of
norms, values, practices, and institutions.”
8. While the Jersey shore seasons were prime
South Park also noticed the phenomena of
people conforming to the Jersey Shore
characteristics.
South Park Described Jersey Shore as a
plague crossing the U.S.
9. Teen mom is another show on MTV that
follows 4 pregnant teenage mothers.
·MTV brings the idea of teenage pregnancy and
places it in the spotlight in front of these
children and young teens.
10. From my experience, I know that having a kid at
the age of 16 and 17 was bad and those mothers
were deemed worthless.
·Now since MTV brought teenage pregnancy to spotlight,
the show invites the audience in the struggle with the
teen parents, thus making the audience more accepting
of teenage mothers.
This can increase the rate of teen moms.
11. “The Teen Mom stars earn $60,000 to
$65,000 per season,” a series insider tells Life
& Style.
Now that people know these teenage mothers were
praised with spotlight and money, it is more likely for
teenagers to become pregnant due to less reinforcement
of the social norm that being a Teen mom is a bad thing.
12. MTV used to be all about music, instead or reality
television shows.
MTV’s intentions went down hill
soon after they saw how many
more viewers they had when
The Real World hit the station.
Now music television is gone
and Reality Television is here.
13. Those who are in power at MTV want to keep their power so
they will do anything to get the views, which means giving the
audience what they came for.
alcohol fighting sex
14. Constant demand from audience for drama.
MTV is a corporation in a goal to bring in as
much viewers as possible
MTV doesn’t make something popular, the
station just reinforces these popular ideas
created by the viewers.
15. MTV needs to stop abusing it’s power.
MTV has the chance to positively change these
young viewer’s lives for the better. MTV could
make a show about people working together
instead of people working against each other.
MTV would rather show what is popular and cool.
16. There are plenty of opportunities to do well with
these social media stations. The stations just need
to stop being greedy with each other in a
competitive fashion and work together to help the
people of the U.S. to be more unified with one
another.
Without competition between the stations, this will
eliminate the competition for views, and will
eliminate meaningless shows leading to a more
unified society.
