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    The media can have a low self body image on women. The media concentrates so much on how thin women should be and there are so many advertisements with women who are very thin. Women begin to believe that they can never add up to the models shown in advertisements. This can lead to many eating disorders such as Bulimia‚ anorexia nervosa and overeating. These eating disorders are very serious and are usually caused by body image problems. Adolescents especially struggle with body image problems.

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    part What is mass media and what role does it play in the community? Various media technologies that are used to achieve huge audience applying mass communication is called Mass Media. This communication takes place through such technologies like radio and television that transferred electronically and also through physical objects like books‚ newspapers and magazines. Moreover‚ enormous quantities of television stations and newspapers publishers are considered to be called mass media too. The importance

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    designers of these advertisements strive to influence consumers to purchase their goods. Without commercials or magazine articles promoting their merchandise‚ many of the items would go unnoticed. However‚ advertising does not only advance their products‚ but it also plays with the consumers’ emotions‚ provides false hope‚ and it encourages a stereotype of how men and women should look. Emotions are one of the easiest ways that advertising companies influence a consumer to buy a product. The director’s

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    The Sociological View of Women and Body Image You have just bought a new pair of jeans. You think that you look absolutely great in them until you turn on the television or compare yourself to the person on side of you. Today‚ women all over the world are focused on the way society views them‚ which has an influence on the way they view themselves. The field known as sociology of the body investigates the ways in which our bodies are affected by our social experiences‚ as well as by the norms and

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    Question: What extent do you agree with the claims regarding the influence of media on people’s perceptions of femininity and the resulting consequences? Thesis: The mass media have effective power on people about the ideal femininity regardless the impacts on people’s health. 1. Paragraph: Description of the media in my opinion Media power on people (Gaunlet ­­­­­‚ p.37) a) ‘We can choose what we like but from a limited range presented by the culture industry.’  Limitation of personal decisions

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    The media has also affected masculinity through the music and movies but more specific by their artists and the stars they created. As any industry these two created their own products‚ every company invest big quantities of money in them‚ the better the product more money they will make. The stars and famous people in the media are products of these industries‚ they invest tons of money in these certain people that sometime they even do not have any talent‚ but with money they make special and spectacular

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    Wrt-101-049 17 December 2013 The medias sphere of influence Can we escape the medias sphere of influence? Do we really have our own views in society are we independent thinkers or are we what the media wants us to be. How much of the views we have today on contemporary moral issues is really up to us. Are we just puppets of the government or a society of free thinkers with our own independent ideas an beliefs? My goal in this paper is to prove that the government and media have an unseen hold on us that

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    Speech The media has a negative influence on body image‚ specifically eating disorders Introduction (Attention Getter) 8 out 10 women who answered a People magazine survey said that images of women on television make them feel unattractive and insecure. After viewing images of female fashion models‚ 70 of women felt more depressed and angrier than they did before seeing the images. As the National Eating Disorders Association website clearly shows‚ the media has a tremendous influence in the average

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    portrayal of women in the media is affecting women around the world to become someone who they are not due to society’s beliefs of what beautiful is due to the medias portrayal. Portrayal of women in the media is that women are expected to look like celebrities‚ or dress a certain way to be successful in life. The female boy is used as a scale towards success; women believe that in order to be successful they must look like a success. For example‚ models use their body in magazines to gain popularity

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    Celebrities create such a negative image of body image towards today’s society‚ they show how they think everybody should look instead of having a positive impact and showing other people on magazines that are comfortable in their own body’s. For example‚ Ashley Graham shows a great body positivity toward herself showing off her thick thighs and many other attributes. She has shown the world that is ok to love yourself and be comfortable in the shape of your body no matter how heavy or how skinny

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