Pop Culture’s Effects on Adolescents

By Lillian Crandall

Sweet Niblets!

2006 2010 2013

“Amanda please” come back

• The hit series, “The Amanda Show” first began airing in 1999 and continued until 2002.

• In 2012, Amanda Bynes was charged with a DUI along with possession of marijuana.

How do WE know this?

• As of May 2009, one sixth of the Internet’s users are on Facebook.

• One million web pages are accessed using the “Login with Facebook” feature.

• Twitter was the fastest growing network with a 44% growth from 2012-2013.

Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development

Sensorlimotor (birth-2)

Preoperational (2-7)

Concrete Operational (7-

11)

Formal Operational (teen-adult)

TV vs. Reality• Children form certain

over dramatized images and apply them to reality based on what they see on television.

• Stereo types, characterizations and glamour portrayed on television are more likely to convert into ways of thinking in real life scenarios.

Conclusion

• Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, ABC Family, and other networks are viewed by a young age group, typically in the Concrete and Formal Operational Stage.

• Celebrity Figures have changed the way we view them.• Technology has improved, making any gossip easily

accessible through social media. • Teenage drug use has increased over the last 20 years.• Experiments show that children have a hard time

differentiating exaggerations on television and real life scenarios.