7 How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
As we enter into the information age, movies and televisions as mass media influence people’s behavior by more extent and degrees now. No matter younge guys or old fellows, no matter boys or girls, many people got so many influences as they are subject to the exploration of communications from movies or TVs in worldside. Generally speaking, movies or televisions can influence audiences’ opinion, the way of getting information and life style. This following will give the detailed explanantion regard to this issue.
Firstly, people will accept the opinions which the movies or televisions transmit. This influence overwhelm the pepole’s vision since their young age. Little kids can remember many commercial ads and set some belives at the same time as they expose movies or televisions so much. Especially, the opinions will be conveyed as kids have no ability to distinguish the falsity or truth in commercials.
Secondly, movies and televisions gradually change the way by which people get information in morden times. More and more people prefer to get visual information for they are used to the easy way of information from movies or televisions. They will become more and more rely on knowing the world by movies and televisions. On the other side, in order to meet people’s new habit of getting information, many popular books have to be also published by the pattern of movies or televisions if they win big sales in market.
Thirdly, movies and televisions influence the life style of many Asian people as they carry on their life scene in the world. Especially young people begin to pursue westernized life style while they favor western movies or televisions. For example, fast foods of Mac Donald’s are so popular in China now and Chinese people begin to accept woman smokers.
All in all, movies and televisions sharply influence people’s behavior from the above three fields, which are opinions, the ways of getting information and life style. It can be forecasted that those infulences will be strengthen by the development of globlization.
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