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1. Media & womenBy: Raquel Cammuse
2. Introduction
3. Influence On SocietyThe media has become a powerful
influence on woman in society. There aremultiple examples that can
explain the perception of this reality. Television News media
Social media Advertisements Reality television Gossip Blogs
4. Body Image Celebrities and models have created a flawless
look for themselves.Television, make up, and photo shop have made
all there flaws and blemishesdisappear. Only certain looks are
accepted, such as being skinny. Plastic surgery being influenced on
young woman. Praising woman on social media as well as the
television.
5. Networks statisticsIn a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old,
40% have tried to lose weight, according toan ongoing study funded
by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.In a study on fifth
graders, 10 year old girls and boys told researchers they
weredissatisfied with their own bodies after watching a music video
by Britney Spearsor a clip from the TV show "Friends". A 1996 study
found that the amount of time an adolescent watches soaps,movies
and music videos is associated with their degree of body
dissatisfactionand desire to be thin.One study reports that at age
thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy withtheir bodies."
This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.
6. Statistics on body image 69% of girls in 5th 12th grades
reported that magazine pictures influencedtheir idea of a perfect
body shape - National Association of Anorexia Nervosaand Associated
Disorders Following the viewing of images of female fashion models,
seven out of tenwomen felt more depressed and angrier than prior to
viewing the images Rader Programs 80% of women who answered a
People magazine survey responded thatimages of women on television
and in the movies make them feel insecure Rader Programs The body
type portrayed in advertising as the ideal is possessed naturally
byonly 5% of American females National Association of Anorexia
Nervosa andAssociated Disorders An average US woman is 54 tall
weighing 140 pounds; the average USmodel is 511 weighing 117 pounds
West Virginia Dept of Education
7. Actions and Decisions You dont have to be flawless to be
accepted. Every one is beautiful in thereown way. Some woman take
action to make themselves look like models evenit that means bodily
harm. Woman change the way the look to be accepted. Using the media
to get through life. Changing your personality just to fit in.
8. Worked Cited Bello, Ana. Celebrity role models affect teens
body image, self-esteem. n.d. November 2014. Chen, Larissa. Media
Influnece on Women. 10 June 2011. 2 November 2014. Farrar, Tabitha.
Body Image of Women. 2014. 29 October 2014. Klein, Kendyl M. "Why
Dont I Look Like Her? The Impact of Social Media On Female Body
Image."Scholarship @ Claremont (2013): 124. Kovar, Allie. Effects
of the Media on Body Image . 30 April 2009. 29 November 2014.
Martinson, Jane. Body Gossip puts spotlight on models and body
image. 11 October 2013. 18November 2014. Polce-Lynch, Mary. women's
body image and self-esteem. February 2013. 29 November 2014.
SERDAR, KASEY L. WestMinster. n.d. 14 October 2014. Strickland,
Jennifer. Self-image/Media Influence. 2014. 18 November 2014.
Swinson, Jo. False beauty in advertising and the pressure to look
'good'. 10 August 2011. 18 20142014. Team, Kate. The Perfect Body.
31 October 2014. 18 November 2014. VARGAS, ESTHER LENICE. The
Negative Effects of the Media on Body Image. 18 June 2013.
18November 2014