The Impact Of Media On The Media

Everyday we see many images in the media and they suggest what we should be like. While the media says how we should act or look, these suggestions invade people’s thoughts. The images the media portrays make it hard to break out of socially constructed stereotypes in our lives. The media reflects dominate and social values of people’s lives. The media also portrays gender by creating stereotypes and gender roles showing how men, women, and transgenders are seen as deviant. In the media, men are portrayed to be “masculine” while females are shown to be “feminine”. Transgenders are viewed in many negative ways and they are stereotyped. Gender stereotypes are expressed more in mass media because it reaches large audiences. The media can influence people to think that what they see is reality. Most of the time the media shows men to be more dominant than woman. This is a way the media influences people to be someone they aren’t.

The Miss Representation documentary film by Jennifer Newsom explores how media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions. This message is portrayed by delivering content through media and technology as well as advertising partial and/or often degrading interpretations of women. The consequences are becoming more and more dreadful. In today’s world, composed of a million stations, people will tend to do more and more shocking things to break through the crowds. They resort to violent, sexually offensive, or demeaning images. Jean Kilbourne, EdD, filmmaker, Killing Us Softly Author and Senior Scholar Wellesley Center’s for Women states, that “it creates a climate in which

Women around the world face overwhelming oppressions in their daily lives. That is not news to anyone and these oppressions have occurred for so much of history, that it is often times overlooked by the mass majority; even the younger generations of women do not know the types of oppressions that they will soon have to face. To combat this, FCKH8.com, a well known organization that sells t-shirts and other merchandise with witty anti-racism, anti-homophobic, and pro-feminist catchphrases on them, created the video, “Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism”. As the title implies, the video contains little girls, ages six through eleven, aggressively yelling “FUCK,” towards the camera while rattling off facts and statistics about some of the oppressions women face because of their gender. The comment section of this video is erratic; the viewers often have conflicting views about the meaning of the video as well as whether or not it was successful in its purpose. One thing is for sure, the video makes an impact by using several rhetorical devices including word choice, pathos and logos; all which separate it from other pro-feminism videos that exist.

History has changed. Ideas and standards have also changed. Back in the day, when the media or movies showed a hint or a dash of blood, the reaction of the average person was shock and disgust at the blood and gore shown. These scenes and clips shown have become more and more extreme over the years to the level of being hazardous to society. Even in the videogame industry, certain scenes that may have caused outrage and commotion fifteen years ago are now seen as childish and may even be considered as humorous. To put it candidly, most of the mass media has been used widely to its ability to influence and persuade, to glorify, and diabolize thoughts and actions of individuals. Yet people of this generation still spend a great percentage of

Women are suppressed and degraded in society. They are merely seen as pets for males or care-takers of the house and children. The advertisement on women’s equality is rhetorically effective due to its connection to the audience, emotional appeal, and how things are positioned in the ad, as well as the misogynistic comments and how society depicts women.

Ly Le The film “Miss Representation” has helped me open my eyes to how the media has influenced on both women and men’s ways of thinking about ideal images which are for both women and men, how gender decides your position in society, and who has the power to become a leader. There is a quote from Marie Wilson, the Founder and President of the White House project that still resonates with me after watching the film. It is “You can’t be what you can’t see”. It makes me think about the thing that most people see every day now is a sort of media such as television, magazine, advertisement, commercial, and social networks where they are all using abusively the images of women to try to sell or convince people to buy or do things.

Media in Society: A Brief Introduction’s chapters one, two, three, and four delve into detail about how we are able to understand and analyze the media, how we view the media as metaphors, all different ways images capture meanings, and all the various narratives that are presented by the media. Beginning with chapter one, this particular chapter discusses how we understand media in our society in various ways. It introduces the critical process to comprehend media content. This chapter also describes the diverse forms of media criticism named reflectionist, contructivist, and narrativist and how they tell stories about the media.

Every aspect of the media is controlled and manipulated to look a certain way. Meaning that while it may seem like the media is trying to sell you a product they are really trying to sell you a message, subconsciously. For example, TrueCar, a car pricing service, released an ad suggesting that women can now go car shopping without a man tagging along. While the ad may seem like it is about a car pricing service, it is really about suggesting that women are useless about men. There was no point in adding in the fact that women can now go car shopping without a man. They could have easily said anyone can go car shopping alone rather than singling out women, making us look useless. My point is, that the media is constantly proving that women’s oppression still exists. Jean Kilbourne refers to this at her TED Talk, where she proves the objectification of women in the media through images and videos from real-life ads. Jean goes on to explain that women are only seen as objects as seen by the media. Through ads, the media is constantly bringing women down and objectifying them. My point is now proven, women’s oppression is continually remade through the media and many other platforms as well. We see women’s oppression everywhere, in our surroundings, from the train all the way to our jobs, women’s oppression is an ongoing

“The media is the message and the messenger and increasingly a powerful one”. When I was younger, I would always hear or read about how the media corrupts and manipulates people, and after watching the film Miss Representation which was written and produced by Jennifer Siebel I have become more aware of how biased the media is towards women and how women are misportrayed in the media. In the film there are many examples of how women are degraded in the media and misrepresented due to the media’s/male's perspective. The Portrayal of women in the media is causing young women to think that they have to measure up to the media’s expectations and look a certain way to be somebody and this makes me sad and upset.

The first video we watched talked about different areas in the media where women are discriminated. Women have the least protagonist roles in Hollywood movies and make only 7% of the movie director in Hollywood. When a woman is the protagonist in a movie, her role is usually about getting a man or being a sexual character. In TV commercials or magazines, women are presented as sexual objected and as easy prey. Many commercials try to show young teenager girls dressing very sexual

“The emotional, sexual and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.” Shirley Chisholm. Despite the statistics, being half the world’s population are in actual fact women. Nowadays in society woman are faced with many challenges, some being discrimination, margination and gender inequality. Though regardless of many attempts to eliminate these problems there are still many social media, advertisement and more indicating that woman are still extremely marginalised in today’s civilisation. Woman are still being marginalised in society through crude or sexist advertisements in the media; this needs to be readressed and changed. I will identify how woman are marginalised in current society through various advertisements where woman have been illustrated as sexual objects, sexist annotations and much more.

Media has become a rampant part of the society we live in today. The media has portrayed men and women based on sexism stereotypes. The media has played a key role of socially constructed sexist stereotypes for both men and women. These socially constructed ideas have created significant impact on our society amongst men and women, and if one does not fit it that role they are ridiculed and judged in today’s society. I have implemented a project that might help combat the sexism roles/stereotypes that we depict from the media today. Since adolescents are mostly affected by the media the project that will help combat sexism depicted in the media will start with the high school education system. The project will consist of going to a local public

Media images of women, regardless of race, are often stereotypical, negative and degrading. Mass media disseminates these images via electronic, print, visual and audio

The ideas and assumptions built around the concept of femininity affect women from all walks of life. The discourse that surrounds this issue sets up and maintains an environment which limits and dictates women’s choices. Documentaries such as Miss Representation (2011) have been produced in order to shed light upon gender issues such as these, focusing on the causes and consequences of these ingrained stereotypes rampant in media upon modern women. In the context of this paper, these discourses and the effects of said discourses will be explored. From print advertisements from the 1950s-1970s to contemporary ads, as well as resistant discourse in film, the ramifications of both discourses in media and female representation in different

In addition to describing how media tend to portray women who are victims of violence, Rina talked about her efforts as an activist to raise awareness of this issue among journalists, especially those of the younger generation.