Study on Giving Fame to Celebrities in Media and Identity Crisis of Teenagers in the Society

Authors
Mostafa koochakzaei 1
majidreza feizian 1
mohammad hosein shahabady 2
1 Shahid Sadr Institute,Tehran,Iran
2 Shahid sadr Institute, Tehran.iran
Abstract
In a world where the media have surrounded us, celebrities play an important role in teenagers’s and youths’ life that is mostly unfavorable and annoying. Celebrities are created in societies where identity has become a wandering concept for adolescents and young people, and has led to the selection of celebrities as a symbol and role model. The aim of this research is to examine the status of celebrities as a product of the media and the role model of youth and adolescents. The method of this paper is descriptive, which is obtained using library method and content analysis. 
Finally, the researchers concluded that today the media needs to introduce real role models that will have permanent effects for the upbringing of new generation. In order t

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Society Culture Media
Volume 7, Issue 29
Summer 2019
Pages 103-121

  • Receive Date 15 December 2019