Radio Influence and Young Adolescents

What does radio media do to children and adolescents between ages 10 – 16 years

There is a wide variety of ways you can get access to radio

Portable Radios

Radio on Phones Radio on IPods/MPs

Other Radio

Car Radio Normal Radio

As I have shown previously there are many types of radios. adolescents have access to it on almost everygadgets. Headphonehave become an “inthing” for adolescents and who knows what programs they listens.

Radio Influence on Jamaican teens

Music is a very active part of the Jamaican culture and radio stations play a wide

variety of music

Some of the music played on stations

send messages children are not

ready for

SOME STATIONS

PLAY MUSIC THAT

GIVES A POSITIVE ASPECT OF YOUR CULTURE

Jamaicans Radio

The Jamaican Broadcasting Commission crack down on the way radio station playing dirty music the decided that no beeping will be tolerated. They even seized some of the programs that were consider unpleasant and since then many radio host have being suspended and even fired for inappropriate air conduct.

Caribbean Radio influence on

adolescents

Based on personal evaluation the radio is the third most used mass media in the Caribbean.

It is a major recreation for a lot of children between ages 10-16 who may not have all the access to all the TV channels nor the Internet.

The radio can be plugged in to there ears for private usage via headphone.

They listen a lot of R&B, Reggae, Dancehall and since recent time majority of them listens to Hip Hop.

They try to emanate the behavior of the persons they hear whether good or bad.

These are teen searching for attention and it is easier to emanate a bad personality, since it will get everyone's attention within a short time span.

The International Influence Radio have on Adolescent.

Radio satisfy many needs internationally but as it relates to children and young adolescents it does more harm.

Children listen to programs that are above their age and sometimes pick up broken information that may affect them for the rest of their life.

Parent are to be careful of the things they listen in the children present because the information they think they are not hearing (supplemental listening) or is too technical for them to understand is the same information they used to confuse them self.

The online only stations that are not as regulated as we think because anyone with the appropriate software create a station which children in the U.S. could stay in their home and stream a Jamaican station.

Some of the advertisement the children hear while tuning to kiddies program maybe too detailed, And this influence to children to investigate thus the satisfy their curiosity.

A lot of children listen to AM stations because they can get the chance to pick up new frequencies.

The most impacting and influential aspect of radio on the children’s minds is the music, it create a lot of room for wonder and children act on this by experimentation.

Influential persons children admire

Females Radio influence on Kids

Willow Smith Rihanna