1/14/2016
We are influenced by the media everyday. Recent studies by CNN have shown that teenagers spend an average of nine hours a day using media. By spending so much time on the media, we are unknowingly absorbing everything we see and read. The consequences of overexposure to media are commonly severe.
The media often features the ideal "perfect body" that many women strive to acquire. These body images are blown up and displayed on every social media form, but most commonly in beauty advertising. By doing this, the media is sending the message to women that the only way to be beautiful is to look the certain way as portrayed in the advertisement, article or digital entertainment. By constantly associating a specific body type with the idea of "beauty", many women will start to believe that the only form of beauty is looking like the models in the media.
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