In the world we live in, body image is always a self conscious issue,because nobody is perfect but everyone tries to be in some way. Editor Erin Cunningham, wrote”Our Photoshopping Disorder” to explain the false ways media influences harmful and unrealistic expectations, towards people especially women. Professor Clay Shirky, is also against media in his article,”Why I just Asked My Students To Put Away Their Laptops”, by pointing out to the people, that distractions such as media can conflict learning. Even Multi-tasking, everyone attempts, but never accomplishes it because the distractions from one task to another, in his case classwork to notifications.
Imagine the impact the media has within your own health? The media is a big impact nowadays, …show more content…
Cunningham relates to that statement with,” that can leap out and get in the way of a little girl to grow up happy and trying to becoming a sustainably happy woman,”(215). Obstacles, everyone goes through them in life, but in the media, it's a bit worse for women. Advertisements and movies, don’t make it more easier for females to feel secure about their body than they do already. Although, it’s just a poster, a TV show, they are set out to present how the “best” should be. So they put on make-up, buy new clothes, change their hair but for what? Another obstacle trying to be perfect. Shirky also believes the students go through obstacles too, against the media. ‘..started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with the various influences,”(211).The obstacles may not be identical, but the variety of influences the students have among media are similar to the ones Cunningham mentions for women. Shirky changes his perspective of the students with media when he realizes, the students are going through obstacles of fighting the distraction to pay attention. Fighting the habit to not answer the comment of Facebook, or find out what Eminem said about Donald Trump again, the constant obstacle to fight the urge to be “updated” all the …show more content…
As I stated previously in the essay, Cunningham states,”a little girl trying to grow happy,”(215). Do you honestly think the upcoming generations are going to “grow happy”? This generation already is lacking interaction amongst family and friends, unless it's behind a screen of some sort. Media is taking control of today’s and tomorrow's time through technology. Media is taking the mental image of things, the physical health,and the emotional time within each other, with “no hands”. When Shirky explains, “ This is even harder for young people, the elephant so strong,the rider still a novice,”(211). He explains that no matter how much the”rider”,intellect, are fighting the variety of influences like the media, their“elephant”,emotions, is fighting against it to fit in or become updated as the
Imagine the impact the media has within your own health? The media is a big impact nowadays, …show more content…
Cunningham relates to that statement with,” that can leap out and get in the way of a little girl to grow up happy and trying to becoming a sustainably happy woman,”(215). Obstacles, everyone goes through them in life, but in the media, it's a bit worse for women. Advertisements and movies, don’t make it more easier for females to feel secure about their body than they do already. Although, it’s just a poster, a TV show, they are set out to present how the “best” should be. So they put on make-up, buy new clothes, change their hair but for what? Another obstacle trying to be perfect. Shirky also believes the students go through obstacles too, against the media. ‘..started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with the various influences,”(211).The obstacles may not be identical, but the variety of influences the students have among media are similar to the ones Cunningham mentions for women. Shirky changes his perspective of the students with media when he realizes, the students are going through obstacles of fighting the distraction to pay attention. Fighting the habit to not answer the comment of Facebook, or find out what Eminem said about Donald Trump again, the constant obstacle to fight the urge to be “updated” all the …show more content…
As I stated previously in the essay, Cunningham states,”a little girl trying to grow happy,”(215). Do you honestly think the upcoming generations are going to “grow happy”? This generation already is lacking interaction amongst family and friends, unless it's behind a screen of some sort. Media is taking control of today’s and tomorrow's time through technology. Media is taking the mental image of things, the physical health,and the emotional time within each other, with “no hands”. When Shirky explains, “ This is even harder for young people, the elephant so strong,the rider still a novice,”(211). He explains that no matter how much the”rider”,intellect, are fighting the variety of influences like the media, their“elephant”,emotions, is fighting against it to fit in or become updated as the