media engagement
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What is Media Literacy? A set of perspectives that we use to
expose ourselves to the media and interpret the meaning of the messages we encounter
What does that mean?
Your ability to:
Understand how media messages shape our society
Recognize what the media producers want us to believe or do
Evaluate media messages based on our own experiences, skills, beliefs, and values
For example:
Proactiv acne face wash commercial
Celebrities= $$
Good lighting
Good editing
Experience, knowledge, and skills help
you see what they are using to try to
persuade you to buy this product
Exposure
What types of media is in your life?
Facebook?
Internet?
Magazines?
Songs?
Television?
Media is all around us whether we are aware or not
Body Image
What is body image?
What we look like
How we dress
How much we weigh
And so on…
Media- positive or negative?
Online Clothing Stores
Models:
Perfect hair, skin, makeup, nails, body, ect
Producers of these websites show:
In order to wear our clothes you must look
like this
Buy products in order to look like these
models
Online Clothing Stores
Size XL yoga pants from
Victoria’s Secret are 34 inches
in waist
www.usatoday.com says
average women’s waist size is
37.8 inches
Smaller than average woman
Effects
Dissatisfaction with the body
Low confidence
Low self-esteem
Eating Disorders
Plastic Surgery
MagazinesEffects:
Negative Self
Image
Eating Disorders
Unrealistic Ideals
Dissatisfaction with
your body
Unrealistic
expectations to
your peers
Television
Most of the people you see on television
are perfect
Hair, makeup, clothes, bodies, etc.
This sets up unrealistic expectations
Young boys and girls want to look like their
favorite TV characters
Young boys and girls think that this is how
everyone is supposed to look
Music
Songs from every genre of music are
singing about body image.
Telling women what to look like and men
what to look for
Perfect bodies=happy lives
Effects
Low self esteem in women
Poor self value
Men are more judgmental when it comes
to women
Unrealistic expectations