The media as mass communication or mass manipulation? Marketing diet fads or endorsing eating disorders--the media's ploy for profit and advertising as its money-making machine.
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3 comments:
I don't know a single girl who hasn't gone on a diet at least once in her life because she thought she was too fat or wanted to lose a certain amount of weight to fit a certain body type idealized in the mainstream media.
the photoshop video is really interesting because it's something we all know is done, but we still evaluate and compare ourselves to the image we see because we aren't thinking logically to begin with when we are trying to mold ourselves to fit media and society's image of beauty. I think women may have some sort of wake-up call if none of the images they saw on tv or magazines were manipulated, photoshopped, or altered in any way. Beauty is a concept of the mind--not something that can be homogoneously defined.
Eating disorders have become so common in today's society that is is perhaps one of the saddest and most inhuman results of the media's "ploy for profit" as you call it. The diet and fashion industry greatly rely on women to feel insecure about their image to maintain or increase their profits, and the media seems to have no concern for the psychological and social implications of the continually slimmer, taller, sexier images that women feel the need to live up to.
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