Mass Media And Young People Values Education

Mass media plays a critical role in current information society. It can affect the community's values, political stance, moral concepts, and form the mass media environment in which people's thinking, ethics and conduct have been considerably influenced. Therefore, the media environment occupies an important position in the values education. Since the contemporary teenagers are active and demand for more information, coupled with their lack of adequate capacity of self-control and judgment, they become more susceptible to the impact of the mass media environment. This environment has both a positive impact on teenagers as well as a negative one. It also brings tremendous opportunities and unprecedented challenges regarding the values education for teenagers. This paper is divided into five sections in a bid to analyze the impact of the mass media environment on teenager, to clarify the current situation of the values education of them, and to propose helpful methods and ideas through which the construction of their value education could be completed.The first part is the preparation of the study.From the mass media and related research to start to interpret the mass media,elaborated the mass media characteristic and the function.the second part is going to carry out a detailed analysis of the state of the value education of teenager under the mass media environment. This analysis includes a clarification of both the positive and negative impacts of the mass media environment upon the teenager value education.The third part gives specific analysis on all sorts of teenagers' deviant behaviors and the cause of negative impacts of mass media.The fourth part, include all the tracts of creating a proper media environment in which the value education of teenager can be improved. Also, the optimized approaches of the mass media environment are to be emphasized in this paper. Regarding the construction of this environment, in a bid to realize the modernization of the value education of the teenager, it is necessary to pool the strength of all different parties in the society, which might include the government regulation, the censorship of the mass media, and the collaborative efforts made by the value educators in teenager themselves.