Magazines Are Becoming More Neglected Essay

Agliata, D., & Tantleff-Dunn, S., (2004). The Impact of Media Exposure on Males’ Body Image.

After reading “the Innocent Man” by Pamela Colloff’s who write a long journalism about Michael Morton, who was found guilty for murdering his wife Christine was sentenced for fifteen years in prison. Later founding that Michael was Innocent after reinvestigating his case, capturing DNA testing and finding new evidence was able to help prove his innocence. The theme of this essay a widow husband who seek to fight for his freedom in prison and staying connected with his son. Michal son Eric gave him a reason to have hope that they would one day reunite and his son would know for himself that he did murder his wife. The point of view of this essay although a man is falsely accuse for a crime he did not commit he is self-determined to fight.

Consumers of an advertised product have been subjected to years of ads that portray men as Gods, so naturally that is what they look for in the newest ads. For example advertisements for protein shakes use men that have exceptional muscle tone and muscle mass. All the advertisement shows is that person drinking the shake and not all the hours they put in at the gym, or years of working out they have gone through to get to that size and tone.

For example, advertisers use the daytime to reach women who work at home while prime time is used to reach women who commute to work daily and weekend sports periods are optimum time for advertising products and services aimed at men.

Body image is an important concept in many adolescent and young adult minds. To have a positive body image is to know that you are beautiful. To be beautiful is to reach the standards of beauty in society. However, society is constantly changing those standards as time goes by. Many young men and women strive to reach the positive, even if it means their health, money, and mind. They have the media, such as magazines to thank for these wonderful standards.

Many fitness advertisements proclaim the idea of the "perfect" body. This is done in ads targeting both women and men. This constant display of the "perfect" body causes women and men to feel like they have to look like the featured models to be accepted, which can often lead to negative body images. One source of advertising where the idea of the "perfect" body can often be seen is in print advertisements featured magazines. These fitness advertisements are usually for athletic shoes/clothes or weight-loss products and often feature a model who is thin and toned. As mentioned by Chandler and Sabiston (2009) there are two types of fitness advertising; model-focused and product- focused (Chandler and Sabiston, 2009). With

However, the ad is also ineffective and not persuading the audience by showing a fit muscular guy to represent the males by leaving behind the male costumers who do not look like the athlete (the man) shown in the picture. This demonstrates that the ad fails at using ethos by only focusing in one body type and not

Magazine advertising share a common message theme: SEX SELLS. Advertising uses sexual content such as sexual or erotic images, and words or phases to attract the attention of the consumer who then notice the product. This form of advertising has been used for centuries dating back to the 1800s. The famous tobacco company W. Dukes & Sons Tobacco, used a strategy to sell tobacco in 1885, by inserting trading cards of sexually provocative actresses into their tobacco packages 3 ( see image #1 4). W. Dukes & Sons became the leading tobacco companies by 1890. How about this slogan “To make your skin flawless” from Woodbury’s Facial Soap company. The soap company was near its end in the early 1900s. To boost their sales, they changed their advertising. They had previously used images of a doctor’s face on their soap wrappers and advertising. Instead, they incorporated images of romantic couples showing attractive, young beautiful women along with slogans as “A Skin You Love to Touch” 5 to increase their sales. This strategy was very effective. The advertisement contained a couple; a young beautiful woman looking straight ahead and a handsome man looking at her. The male model is holding her right hand with his left arm is wrapped around her, holding her close to him. This gives the viewer the idea that the two models are a couple. The slogan in the

Specifically, a content analysis and survey research was conducted dealing with how television commercials and magazine advertisements targeted towards males ultimately affect female body image and behavior.

A search for men’s health related website conducted using the public search engine Google.com. Men’s Health Network (MHN), http://www.menshealthnetwork.org, is a nonprofit organization reaching out to males and their families focusing on the growing health crisis that affect the premature mortality of men (Men’s Health Network, 2014). Approximately 50% of the population is male; evaluating the sites credibility is important when using it as an educational tool for male patients related to prevention and management of health.

Our streets are plagued with billboards promoting health and more often than not are showcasing men or make the men look fitter. Healthier and stronger than women. However I find this advertising displeasing and offensive. Health promotion should illustrate equality in order to promote healthy living and exercise for genders and motivate

The rhetorical imagery that is used to portray a man's body is spread throughout the fitness industry and health advertisements. These images are on the cover of well-known magazines such as “FITNESSRX”, distribute worldwide targeting men, ages 18-30. These magazines give a visual rhetoric as a method of persuading beauty, body image, and the pursuit of “perfection”. These companies target young adults because they believe they have the money to buy their products to obtain the body they want or the body portrayed on the cover of the magazine.

AARP (American Association of Retired People) Magazine has one of the biggest audiences for magazines printed in the United States, with a circulation of 22.8 million. Their primary target audience consists of men and women between the ages of 50 and 75 who are either retired or nearing retirement. AARP’s advertisements greatly reflect their age demographic, as the products being advertised are typical for the baby boomer generation. Examples include easy to type flip phones, heart medication, adult diapers, and easy to climb into bathtubs. The ads promote safety, easy to use products, and easy to purchase products while giving as much information about the product possible on a full page ad.

Developing materials and interventions that are tailored to a specific target audience can help ensure that the messages appeal to that subgroup and will likely spur the behavior change/product use. For this social marketing campaign, the target audience is sexually active men and women ages twenty-one through thirty-five. Another aspect of the target audience is that they are active members in the dating scene. As a result, all promotion methods, materials, and interventions will be designed with this target audience in mind.

Almost everyone is exposed to advertisements when they are children. Ads are everywhere and they make people feel a certain way towards what they are trying to sell even if the people involved feel unaffected. Ads are supposed to do this and can make their audience feel happy, but there is a chance that they will do the opposite. Many ads make men feel like they are not strong or tough enough. A study done on the effects of media images from magazines on the body and self-Esteem said, “Men’s Health and GQ both focus primarily on men’s bodies and send very overt messages about what men should look like. Therefore, it may be very easy for men who read these magazines to feel as though they do not measure up” (Hobza, Cody L., et al. 168). Ads in magazines or on tv don’t usually show men crying or talking about their emotions with their friends because that is something men are not supposed to do; instead ads show them being strong, tough, and emotionally stable.