Question: What are some mass-media effects and mass media messages and the impact on society?

mass media messages like body image, and any form of "perfection" have a huge impact on society.

For years we've seen the ideal family and ideal body and these played out scenes that the public, especially younger people believe is real and is the only way to be,

so they try their hardest to live a life like what they see.

most of the time it just gets them into trouble. Like drug use and drinking that they may see on TV, they will want to be like the character on gossip girl or some other show and just end up in trouble with an unfinished "aspiration"