MEDIA IMPACTS

ADVERTISING

A sign or flyer trying to get people to buy the product the company or group is trying to sell. The makers of the advertisement will make it to appeal to the group of people they are trying to sell to.

ROLE MODELLINGSome one another person looks up too, this person wants to be like that person. They have a good influence on them.

Rosie O'Donnell

STEREOTYPINGWhen someone gets labelled for something they like, do or how they dress. Some stereotypes are dumb blond, women/Asian drivers cant drive, Italians are in the Mob, Irishman are drunks,

PROPAGANDAInformation, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation.

CONSUMERISMThe concept that an ever-expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy.

CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONThe way a group is stereotyped, for example people in the states think Canadians ride polar bears and live in igloos. Which we don’t.