As an ever-increasing number of youth and adolescents are gaining access to the internet, the time has come to take a step back to reflect on the potential hazards that this type of exposure can have on the human psyche. In order to investigate an issue as multi-faceted as this however, one must first start with a single aspect - an analogous geodesic, if you will. Given the abundance of research on the topic, investigating the potential links between body dysmorphia and media exposure seems a logical place to start
In an article written by Kasey Serdar, it is claimed that "frequent magazine reading [is] consistently correlated with higher levels of body dissatisfaction and disturbed eating" in young women, and that "women who viewed music videos that contained thin models [experience] increased …show more content…
In my opinion, the mass media’s role in influencing society’s perception of ‘the ideal body’ is a difficult one to pin down. This is mainly due to the fact that the media displays what we want to see, nothing more, and nothing less. So perhaps representing the media as a projector would not be quite as accurate as if it were a mirror. A mirror into what we, as a society, strive to experience. Strive to be.
Whilst the influence of ‘Media’, in the traditional sense, has waned in recent years, it still affects us all in a notable way. And whilst there may be a link connecting media exposure and body dysmorphia it seems, to me, to a strained one. The way I see it, were society’s perception of attractiveness at any point in time a vector, the media would affect only the magnitude of that vector, leaving its direction
In an article written by Kasey Serdar, it is claimed that "frequent magazine reading [is] consistently correlated with higher levels of body dissatisfaction and disturbed eating" in young women, and that "women who viewed music videos that contained thin models [experience] increased …show more content…
In my opinion, the mass media’s role in influencing society’s perception of ‘the ideal body’ is a difficult one to pin down. This is mainly due to the fact that the media displays what we want to see, nothing more, and nothing less. So perhaps representing the media as a projector would not be quite as accurate as if it were a mirror. A mirror into what we, as a society, strive to experience. Strive to be.
Whilst the influence of ‘Media’, in the traditional sense, has waned in recent years, it still affects us all in a notable way. And whilst there may be a link connecting media exposure and body dysmorphia it seems, to me, to a strained one. The way I see it, were society’s perception of attractiveness at any point in time a vector, the media would affect only the magnitude of that vector, leaving its direction