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Perceptions of Aging:<\/strong><\/p>\n Media has a tremendous influence on the way we view segments of society. This influence manipulates our perspectives and gives us information, whether accurate or not. We tend to absorb information from mass media without question and use it to guide our categorization of social roles.<\/p>\n Look at how the media emphasizes youthfulness and beauty. Unfortunately when the media portrays the elderly it is often done in a way that does not provide an accurate representation. The public representations are usually negative and confirm stereotypes that the elderly can no longer contribute to society in a positive manner.<\/p>\n Tasks:<\/strong><\/p>\n Watch at least 60 minutes of TV, focusing on the depiction of older adults. In a minimum of 200 words, analyze and discuss TV programming in the context of at least two of the following:<\/p>\n Also include your own thoughts about aging. When do you think a person becomes elderly? What do you think of older people?<\/p>\n Submission Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n Perceptions of Aging: Media has a tremendous influence on the way we view segments of society. This influence manipulates our perspectives and gives us information, whether accurate or not. We tend to absorb information from mass media without question and use it to guide our categorization of social roles. Look at how the media emphasizes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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