In medias res

Thus making me think that the body images that are shown in the media are negative to those that are targeted, in this case girls. For me personally, this issue affects me a lot. Growing up, I’ve been expected for my body to fit in a category where my mom finds it perfect. When I see women or girls on media it usually leaves me feeling anxious and ashamed. Seeing it makes me self-conscious because I don't have the things that they have…

“Taking a break from social media for a week should be an easy task,” I thought to myself. Oh boy, was I wrong! When I sat down and thought about how much time a day I spend on social media, mindlessly scrolling through posts I don’t really care about, I was surprised. I didn’t think I spent that much time on social media. On a daily basis, I spend about 2-4 hours on Netflix, Facebook, Instagram, and other forms of social media collectively. A Digital Diet was just what I needed in order to cut…

like. Tan, thin yet shapely women and tan, toned, bulked up men; all portrayed by media as the most desirable. You subconsciously take in all these images and end up feeling like you need to look like that, otherwise you’re undesirable. 50-88% of adolescent girls feel negatively about their body size or shape ( 7). Methods like, “if you buy top, you will look like this model”, are used. People want to be happy; the media take advantage of this, telling people if they look a certain way they will…

Modern media is made by a small number of people and usually relies on technology. Storage and transmission with media began more than 30,000 years ago such as cave drawings. Modern media must go out a mass amount of people which means mass production. Gutenberg Press which is the first printed press and it printed 180 copies in Europe. Which started newspaper in the 1960s in England. The idea of photographs is more than 1000 years old. Radio was invented in 1894 and became a wireless…

which Franzen points out that “if you dedicate your existence to being likable, however, and if you adopt whatever cool persona is necessary to make it happen, it suggests that you’ve despaired of being loved for who you really are” (145). The use of media platforms to broadcast daily occurrences has painted Internet users as movie stars and celebrities in their own minds, taking pictures of nearly everything and creating a page of their greatest accomplishments. However, the connection between…

The technology which surrounds almost everyone in the modern society, affects both culture and human activities. Technology contains information and chance that transformed us to a new age where it influences minds in both good and bad ways and allows people to share information which they would which they would otherwise not be able to attain. However, the technology transformation is now beginning to be harnessing the minds of future children and adolescents in ways that could be harmful. Both…

Journalism is the Face of News Throughout this film, Page One: Inside the New York Times, we notice there is a constant theme. How has news evolved? The New York Times is used as an example throughout the documentary to show us how news has evolved, what some of the challenges may be, what values come in to play, what goes through the decision-making process, what problems may come about while rising to success, and what changes might happen to journalism in the future. Journalism is the face…

both beneficial and harmful effects on people; it just depends on how often they use and their purpose for using it. If someone is using social media to create this virtual reality, then he or she will most likely end up becoming depressed. For, he or she will find himself or herself constantly comparing themselves to others. People who use social media to connect with friends, who live far away, should be positively affected, as long as they are using technology to grow a relationship, and not…

them being attached to social media in one way or another. Especially with phones having mobile applications left and right, it’s as if the millions of users of social media are completely captivated by what their friends, family, celebrities, or colleagues are doing every second of the day. As the number of users continue to increase, could social media pose a problem that is silently creeping its way to the normality of everyday life? The popularity of social media has cause negative effects…

video phone call no matter how far you are. This is becoming a habit among society to use their gadget to make a communication through social media. However, there are positive and negative sides from this invention. All this time, I know people starts to use social media because everybody does that. I would like to know deeper what the effect of social media is for most people. Does it make us closer to our relatives and friends? Or does it turn out to be a bad habit?…