celebritiy+images+and+the+youth's+preception

Does the Images Celebrites have Play a Role in Our Youth's Self-Perception?

__**Research Questions**__
How do today's young generation try to imitate celebrity culture? What effect has celebrity behavior, doing drugs, going to jail, quick marriages, etc. had on today's youth? Is there anything celebrities can do at this poin to change the perception of the negative images they have put out? What steps can be done to influence a whole generation of celebrity watchers that certain things can be done differently?

__**Topic Intoduction**__
Can the lives of celebrities really effect the way that our youth tody perceive themselves? Today's youth is so focused on the lives of celebrities and the way that they behave that it is seriously altering the self images of teenagers and young adults. Today youth thinks it is so cool that their favorite celebrites are doing drugs or glorifing criminal activites that they are imitating the very lives of these young stars. They have so much influence over our youth and its like they dont realize it or even care. Is there anything that can be done now to change this? Some celebrities have tried to clean up their act and put out a positive image, but are they losing their fan base? Are they thinking it's better to be bad?

**__Stay Above The Influence__**
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**__Research Process Reflection__**
The research for this was not particularly hard and what worked for me was to search availabe news journals on this subject through sites like; Academic complete and Ohiolink. The setbacks I faced were that although you can find plenty of negative things on the internet and other media sources about this subject it is really hard to find anything positive. There are not to many success stories of drugged out celebrites or celebrites who are trying to change their images being back on top. The most effective search tools for me were the use of the Boolean factors. This helped to really narrow my search when I was looking for things. What I think I could change in the future is going a little more in depth and knowing what is opinion and fact.

=__**Annotated Bibliography**__=

McDaniel, Brenda. //UPI.com//. 27 02 2009. 12 12 2011. . In this article Brenda McDaniel of Kanas State University reveals her research from her studies on who actually are today’s youth's role models. In her study she reveals that although celebrities are many of today’s young people role models it is the youths own family members that have the most influence.

media, common sense. //divine caroline//. 08 03 2011. 12 12 2012. . In this article the writers at common sense media asks the questions of what celebrities mean to our kids. How kids look at celebrities for role models and is media putting too much pressure on our children? This article not only discusses the images that are negatively impacting our children but it offers a solution as to what parents can do about it.

Mitchell, Anne. //health central//. 08 02 2008. 12 12 2012. . In this article Anne Mitchell discusses the influence that celebrities that smoke have on our youth. She talks about how when they smoke youths think this is cool and acceptable. She talks about health risk and the way we can discourage our children from following this dangerous trend.

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