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This 4 page paper contends that the media can shape us in sometimes negative ways. Examples are presented that suggests that it is the media that controls our ideas of what is considered attractive and that it is the media that is responsible for our increasing tendency towards violence. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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few decades. This influence comes in the form of advertising but it also comes in more subtle forms. Our television content, movies, and music, for example, many times
deliver messages that impact our cultural values and behaviors. The result can be concerning to say the least. The intent of this paper is to review the impact
the electronic media has had on our perception of the human body itself and on our behavior as individuals. Our perception of our
bodies is tied to many things. Consider, for example, our views on what is an attractive body form and what is not so attractive. The media barrages us
with images of what society considers the perfect woman and the perfect man. In the U.S. we emphasize appearance over practically any other aspect of an adolescents
existence. Its not only a teens peers that are telling them that "thin is in", for example, its American culture as a whole. While these influences are most
obvious in terms of teenage girls, they are present as well in regard to teenage boys. The result of such adverse societal input is the formation of a number
of dysfunctional assumptions and negative automatic thoughts. We are brainwashed into thinking that in order to be attractive we must
be thin. The people that we see on television, after all, are thin! Interestingly, the popular mindset is that conditions such as bulemia and anorexia manifest primarily as
a result of the constant cultural pressure to be thin, from the constant cultural message that being thin is a prerequisite to being beautiful.
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