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    Media is definitely one of the most powerful forms of agency for social control. Yet, words alone are exceptionally powerful as well. Media consists of television, radio, internet, books, and so on. Commercials, for example, are a strong field of influence. When creating a certain message, commercials are able to manipulate people’s attitudes, beliefs and opinions, whether negatively or positively. Persuasion in the media is influential and it does not affect only adults, but children as well. A

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    pull two separate and different works together and focus on the impact of gender in media and film. First I will summarize my position then address the two selected works. One work is from noted Marxist Louis Althusser where he points out eight different Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) of which I will focus on two for this writing, the family ISA and the culture ISA. The second is from noted Canadian activist and trans-gender

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    Gender Representation in Media Media (advertising, television and other forms in which consumers obtain content) is a forum that has such an immense power, a power that the common lay man just doesn’t realize. Advertising for example is perceived 95% subconsciously without us or our brains realizing. Due to this, media has a major part in affecting and changing our lives as we are constantly fed on the “normal” way to live or “how it should be done.” Suddenly something that we definitely didn’t need

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    Gender Socialization In today’s society, we see the effects of mass media and media imaging more than we have in any era before. Whether it be the large amount of new social media apps, the access to growing technology and communication throughout the world, or simply the millions of viewers and users, social media has become one, if not the most influential source in the world. This gives mass media the power to create, destroy, and spread any image or idea having a large effect on the audience

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    Pop-media around the world has a defining role. It has a significant impact on the viewers and it portrays various messages about sex, sexualtiy, and gender. Pop-media plays a major role in strengthening gender stereotypes and portraying various sexual acts. The way gender and various sexual acts are portrayed in the pop-media productions of a culture has a major affect on the ideology, thoughts, and ideas of the individuals part of that culture. The norms presented by the pop-media in America are

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    Hollywood and media there is not a fair and accurate representation. From the ratio of actresses and actors to those behind the scene, it seems that the industry if very male-oriented. The commonly used idiom “Life imitates art” accurate describes the cultural context of how being surrounded by mass media has consciously and unconsciously affected society as a whole. Films especially have shaped how we understand the world and interact with each other. The roles we associate with gender have become

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    Gender stereotyping in sports media is something we see everyday in magazines and on TV. Since sports were invented, males have dominated one of Canada’s largest pastimes. Reasons for this being physicality and strength, but as time progressed women began to become more involved in the culture of sport. Today there is almost an equal amount of women participating in sports as man, yet women are still not being represented with the same approach as men. About a month ago I found a video online

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    appearance, race, gender, religion and many more. This is called gender stereotypes. Gender stereotypes are displayed everywhere. Some examples are through images, advertisements, videos, and many more. Even though the media continues portraying the stereotype that women are supposed to be skinny and have an hourglass body shape to be considered attractive, more than 60% of women naturally possess different body shapes, making this stereotype illogical. To begin with, an example of gender stereotyping

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    Sources on this topic generally agree about racial discrimination and gender directed mainly towards the media, but disagree on the facts that gender plays a much stronger role on who’s got it worse in their respective identities. The arguments these authors make in these different articles discuss the different point of views on this subject. The stereotype context of blacks consider to be perceived as more of a key concept because media plays a huge role in understanding our attribute to mankind. Their

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    There was no such thing as gender, sexual orientation, race, and religion. Everybody was as physically and mentally identical as the next person. Diversity is close to non-existent. That is how most would say the media represents the human race. Film, literature, theater, music, and television are all genres of media that have done exactly that for centuries. Even now in the 21st century, little girls and boys grow up thinking they are not adequate enough for roles in the media, some developing insecurities

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