Report on the digital artifact
Introduction
The young urban has a deep link and connection with the media a great deal. The youths today are empowered by the digital age and therefore the media has increased its significance by making a great sense of library and artifacts. Digitalism is a problem that is heavily built on the culture of heterosexual occupation of time and space (Rosenberg, and Sharp, 2018). The media expectations are inherently changing and therefore reproducing a dominant media expectation on young people. The teens on social media have used the sense of technology to help ease communication. Digitization helps in providing convenience and access to the provided devices especially smartphones. Twitter holds up to 24% of active teenagers who are aged 13-17 (Lenhart et al., 2015). Very few of the teenagers forgo online usage and therefore it makes some great sense seeing the young generation mostly embedded onto social media. This paper tackles the digital effect of Instagram on the youths and the younger generation
Instagram and the youths
Instagram digitization has greatly affected the intersection between memory identity and reality. The insta-stories are a link to the young urban and therefore most individuals have had great focus on the tampered noise, artifacts, and images. The frequent usage of the internet is therefore a progressive mental mess among the youth. The changing analog texture features the demand of the youths in the media. Health as an intermediary is greatly affected in the long run and thereby making a great risk to the youth other than benefiting them. The adverts and celebrity endorsements are a great effect on the youths as projected by most of their posts on Instagram.
Social context
The luxury behind the virtual identity is an influence whose context explores personal technologies among the Australian youth. Instagram is constructed to uphold the greatest quality of photos and images. The audiences make up the success of standing out or rather increasing in the number of followers. Most of the Instagram subscribers design their walls using different themes and colors to help grow their followers. The Instagram stories and posts also gain popularity through hashtags and normal tags. The artifact, therefore, works based on outdoing the best photo or rather content and also pulling it all together through being the most sexists. According to code, 2015, Instagram emphasizes on social constructs. Instagram, about the Australian Youths on Instagram, hold high the societal classes thus bringing out the gap between the bogan vs. affluent elite. The stories bring about the class of taste which is an affluent elite type of social class. The mobile modernity in the Australian state expresses the accelerated change in cultural identity (Corbett, M. and Forsey, M., 2017).
Media representation on the youth in Instagram
Instagram is a media representation whose development constructs are based on marketing and promotion of products and services. An example is shown by fig 1.0 shows Kim Kardashian promoting an unhealthy drink whose effects on young people is so massive and therefore exposing the young people to a greater health risk. Celebrity endorsements like Kardashian and Flattummyco shakes are examples of media representations on the youth whose weight is massively felt on their health. To some level of understanding, Instagram posts are luring warnings and therefore it needs proper care and usage while following these celebrities as youths.
Fig 1.0 photo courtesy of an Instagram post by Kim Kardashian.
Accuracy of the digital artifact
The level of accuracy pointed out by Instagram is substantively high as observed on the youths today. The youths today focus greatly on flashy lifestyles which to some extent does not mimic their reality. The chase of perfection and celebrity lifestyle has modeled the outlook developed on Instagram. Social media is selective in terms of influence since it has both a positive and negative influence on teenage behavior. Teenagers exposed to the media are most likely to be informed on issues like drugs, weather, disease, and politics. The likelihood of being misinformed is also great as projected by Fig 1.0. the youth can experience cyberbully or be exposed to peer influence which can easily lead to things such as suicidal thoughts, depression, and even crime. The youth get influenced easily based on physical appearance and the need to change.
Conclusion
Media as a form of distraction in Australia is an artifact that creates animosity and a rumor spreading platform. The exposure can create risk or even information. The amount of risk is however projected by the peer pressure and the much information consumed. Instagram makes a great influence on the youth based on the fact that youths are more embedded in social media than physical communication. Mass media, therefore, is one of the most significant forces affecting the youth’s culture. The influence votes on some facts are based on beliefs and knowledge of the individual. For specific topics like health and influence are greatly affected when youths use Instagram due to misinformation.
Works cited
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