Never Just Pictures by Susan Bordo

Body image has always been a huge part for women in their lives. In the beginning of the essay Bordo gives a great opening with a good description that open your eyes. She speaks about how a young girl standing in the mirror who thinks she is fat when in actuality she is the right size according to her doctor’s chart. The young lady only thinks she fat because of what she sees on TV and how actress, singers, and artist’s bodies looks. With the media it has people thinking

“Media cannot attract audiences; only content has the power to attract and engage an audience…Without great content, media re transient and perishable…The media are nothing more than a transient pipeline.” (p. 27)

Television, movies, songs, and social media are the cultured lenses in which we view the world. What we perceive through a screen can change where we stand on certain topics; for example, gender messages and body images.

Media plays a huge part in the lives of individuals in their regular activities in the society. Surely, it has impacted on how we see the world and ourselves. Numerous different sorts of media including television shows, radio, movies, advertisements, and daily papers are put on the web and random places. This paper investigates how the role of representation in media is important.

One of Bordo’s key points in her essay is that food is ultimately gendered. It is perfectly okay for a man to eat heartily and gorge himself, but the second a woman does, she is judged. She states that woman are “forbidden” to eat heartily in our society. Along with food being gendered, Bordo brings up that appearance is the ultimate value in regarding food for woman. Men act and Woman appear. Next Bordo

Throughout the years, popular culture has grown into an intellectually battle. Steven Johnson affirms that “the popuIar media steadily, but almost imperceptibly”, made “our minds sharper”. Johnson can be looked as an ideal example of the good impact the media has on its people. He doesn’t judge the negative advertisement, the numerous crimes presented on a daily basis or the violent television dramas but he explains how these are just a shell, a mantle and underneath it reveals a machinery meant to challenge and develop people’s mind.

Representation refers to the construction in any media (especially mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ that can either mirror or subvert societal expectations. They are often based on negative stereotypes allowing the audience to feel secure and familiar. By definition, all media texts are re-presentations of reality. They are intentionally composed, lit, written, framed, cropped, captioned, branded, targeted and censored by their producers, they are entirely artificial versions of the reality perceived in the current world. Every media form, from a home video to a glossy magazine, is a representation of someone's concept of existence, codified into a series of signs and symbols which can be read by an audience. However, it is important to

Nowadays, the media becomes an essential and necessary part of a modern society. The media has a huge impact on how people admit the world on many levels, such as how they socialize, gain knowledge, and access information. However, the media participate how the people are portrayed on television screen. For example, children are portrayed as victims and related to negative topics, such as abuse or disasters. Moreover, women, who are half the world’s population, are also portrayed in the media. From the year 1890s until the present, the women have been portrayed differently. In past, it was not difficult to see the women dressed up well. Their hair was done, and their clothes and accessories presented their classes

Self-Image Reflected in Media Perspective is one of the many things in the world that constantly fluctuates whether it be in great or limited amounts. Living in the age of technology, my perspective shifts even more because I am exposed to various ideas and cultures, as well as other perspectives. After eighteen years of experiencing this age, the way I perceive the world is identical in some ways and very different in others. Growing up, many of the hot topics in today’s media were not dwelled upon in my household.

Artists, especially photographers, have utilized photography books for decades, but as we enter the twenty-first century the demand for them has escalated tremendously. Photo-books have integrated into our everyday lives in ways one might not even notice, as a society we are flooded with books in the form of zines, print on demands, and ready-mades filled with photography. In this essay, the transgression of photo books and their influence on contemporary artists will be a discussed, as well as the influence of social media and its contribution to the art world, and understanding how these books relate to the art world and why we should care.

Walking down the runways fierce and bold wearing the wings of angels and enough lingerie to make a man drool, their heels clanking loudly as they take big strides down the cat walk, and striking a pose at the end. Models are beautiful, bold and fierce; and according to most people, they have all the confidence in the world. What people do not know, are all the difficulties that models go through every day to keep up the portrayed “model” image. A lot of models battle with eating disorders and have various health issues due to the weight limitations they are put under. There should be no weight limitations on models due to the extreme sicknesses and health problems they will endure trying to reach the set criteria be perfect models.

The seemingly overnight shift into the digital age not only has effects on the way that we live, but more specifically on the way that we view online media. With the internet and computers becoming prevalent in homes across the world, People of course

Mass media is the methods of communication, including television, radio, magazines, films, internet and newspapers, that have become some of society’s most important agents of socialization. In this paper I will talk about media and its effects on society today, things such as stereotypes the media portrays, the way media illustrates women and what that does to body images of women. I will also be talking about medias effects on teenagers, and sexualization in the media.

The evolution of media through the duration of many years has played a predominant role in the lives of many. For this oral project I had the honor of interviewing my grandma, Marta De Armas, my fathers mother, in the lobby of the restaurant in her Senior Living Home. She resides in San Marcos California with her husband Joe De Armas. Originally from Cuba, my grandmother’s experience with media was consumed with subtitles and non-easy access. With her being 84 years of age, the ease of which her memories came was not quite there, yet she did her best. Exploring her years of what the media were like in the 1940’s and 50’s was intriguing and mind blowing. Growing up in the world today the ability to access anything or anyone is so instant, compared to during her time you had to wait a few days or you never even knew about it. The meaning of “privacy” was extremely stronger and respected. Today, there is no such thing. Having the perspective of someone who grew up in the period of all the new medium inventions and who is still alive today to compare the two worlds of past and present truly illuminates how far the media has come.

An array of theoretical perspectives are provided, which are later used to justify and criticise findings. The first is an approach that the content within media is a parallel of realism; an increased number of women in society results in photography being progressively occupied by women. This is then followed by a supposition that the constitution of cultural presence in the media is influenced by cultural categories of editors