Music Piracy

Music piracy is the most important problem in the world. A lot of people don't pay any money to singers' album, they generally download their songs from internet. Especially, in last 5 years this kind of programmes spread a lot and audiences take advantages of them. Governments should take provision to that programmes. For example, France government blocked the internet of users who download music 3 times illegally.

The More You Subtract, the More You Add': Cutting Girls Down To Size

Jean Kilbourne claims that very significant percent of little girls or teenagers implement dangerous diets to have a beautiful bodies like girls which they saw from magazines or TV programmes. Sometimes some of them died from that stupid diets because, that girls only eat 1 or maximum 2 meals per a day. Interesting thing is that %29 of them are overweight.

Codes of Gender

This documentary shows men's and women's photo messages. I learned that if a man stands straight and serious, he looks powerful and attractive. Also, if woman lying down, she looks weak and soft. Muscline and feminity are two important things to point out audiences. For example, if some company views a sexy man who has great muscles in his body and wears that company's jean or t-shirt, %60-70 of men want to buy that jean or t-shirt. Because they want to be sexy like that man.

The Man Who Was Almost A Man

Guns are really dangerous for humanity. A lot of people kill another for a little anger. In USA, teenagers are curious to buy guns because they think that if they have a gun, they will be the real man. Especially, in Afro-American ghettos a lot of teenagers have guns and commit illegal acts with these guns.

Media Power Versus People Power

The power of mass media over the population was enormous and very damaging. Famous people become a part of us. We listen their musics or watch their films. Everytime we think and talk about them. Also we wear and act like them. For example, Marilyn Manson and Eminem may be scary to middle America, but in wall streets terms they are embodiments of the American capitalist dream. The teen 'rebels' who are fans of such acts are just consumers: buying a CD is not rebellion, it's buying a CD. The tough guy who has just bought the latest angry rap CD, takes it home and plays it loud, may be thinking, 'Yeah! Fuck you, consumer society!'

TV: The Plug-in Drug

Television viewing has become an inevitable and ordinary part of daily life. In those early days writers frequently discussed the effects of television on family life. However, acurious myopia afflicted those early observes: almost without exception they regarded television as a favorable, beneficial, indeed, wondrous influence upon the family. ' Television will take over your way of living and change your children's habits, but this change can be a wonderful improvement, ' clamis another comentator. Home and family life has changed in important ways since the advent of television. The peer group has become television-oriented, and much of the time children spend together is ocuupied by television viewing. Culture generally has been transformed by television. Mealtime rituals, going-to-bed rituals, illness rituals, holiday rituals, how many of these have survived the inroads of the television set? Now everyone was sitting in front of the television set, on a holiday, at a family party! Family relationships are going to be much harmful than today, if we will addicted to TV.

Reality TV: a Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality.

Salman Rushdie thinks that nowadays huge percent of spectators or viewers don't care images of the world's rich otherness and people's talents. TV programmes only based on the ratings and big-money incomes. Being famous and rich through TV programmes are become more important concepts in western society. After being famous and rich, media which make these people famous and rich, start to see these people as a gladiators in collesium. Then, these people start to fall like a stars and we want to find new subjects. Reality TV shows or other programmes like them don't give anything to us. We just waste our times for removing boredom.