Media activism

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…

acknowledges that social media has changed the way people protest. According to Gladwell,“Fifty years after one of the most extraordinary episodes of social upheaval in American history, we seem to have forgotten what activism is” (172). We believe we can be activists online, but that is not the truth. Gladwell’s purpose is to point out that without social media we can accomplish way more. He analyzes the opinion of journalists who claim that social media is the ‘new activism.’ He creates a…

In “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” Malcolm Gladwell makes a case against social media in regards to how it is effecting activism. He uses social movements as an example, stating that social media creates a chasm or between the movement and the person. Prior to social media, activists were involved first hand in the movement but social media has inserted itself as a protective barrier, allowing people to be involved, but not vulnerable to the success or failure of the…

Social media has a major impact on political activism and media as a whole. In Malcolm Gladwell’s essay, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, Gladwell argues about the relationships between social media and social activism. Gladwell insists that social activism needs strong connections rather than weak networking. Gladwell states different arguments that leads to many valid viewpoints. He clarifies two alternatives: The relationship between strong ties and weak ties and…

Project: Where does New Zealand media content come from? The circulation of social media campaigns and online activism of #BringBackOurGirls into New Zealand media online channels. Statement of purpose (or problem statement): Social networks and the rise of social media campaigns continue to dominate mainstream media. Their aim to network, communicate and persuade a large global audience has evolved into a powerful medium (Kim, 2014). The driving force behind a social media campaign now…