Monday, December 5, 2011


      In the three videos the argument, or at least the main one, was that media is giving and showing false images and ideals of who a person should be or look like and it is wrongly effecting teens and young adults. I agree with their arguments.  Many people do look at these images in advertisments and I'm sure think that they need to look like that.  Many people see pictures of celeberties, but so many, most, of those pictures have been fixed to make a person look "perfect".  Like in the How Media Influences  Image, everything, including children's movies create a sterotype person.  Seeing this at such a young age and often will leave a image in a child's head ,that will possible come back when they are older, that they should be like the people they saw and 'admired' as a child. 
        Sometimes, like in the Effects of Mass Media on Teens, if at one point they think they are overwait, they won't stop trying to lose it, even if you are extremely overwait.  They are scared to be seen as not the "correct" person, not pretty enough or thin enough.  These fears of not being seen as perfect or different from others can seriously mess a person up.  Also, if a teen or young adult sees that their 'role model' is really thin, or has other attributes that may have been perfect through the use of technology, they will strive to try to look like that. 
        Advertising sends out false images, showing people who don't exist.  They are just out for a profit often and people's attempts leave a shell of the former person.  Advertisment is ruining the moral and true way to look at a person.

Amelia

1 comment:

  1. Amelia, great job setting up your argument in response to the sources. I tend to agree with you. Will made a good counter argument about image models to which I'd be interested in seeing your response.

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