Media:What it does to The Human Body

Theresa Darveaux

Essential Questions

What is media supposed to do?

How does media affect the human body?

How can these effects change lives?

Is it just in the US or are there others?

What Media Intends Advertising Naturally, companies advertise to sell products

Entertainment Movies, music, and social web sites are meant for enjoyment

Information Newspapers, news castings, and books intend to inform people on various happenings

BMI (Body Mass Index) in publicly viewed Industries

Disorders, models, cheerleaders

Sex Appeal: Particularly in Magazines and Catalogs

Women: Large butt, skinny waist, large breasts, big hips.

Men: large muscles, broad shoulders

Social

Role models, materialistic items and social confidence

How Does Media Affect the Human Body?

BMI (Body Mass Index) effects and

Industries

The modeling industry has BMI requirements for their models. This can alter the

publics perception of beauty, or the perfect body, and lead to the need to be

thin.This can cause disorders in

the employees such as Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Anorexia and Bulimia

Nervosa, Binge Disorder.

Some Cheerleading Industries believe in “thin

and fit” for the cheerleaders. These women are in front of thousands of people which

could alter the public’s perception of body image.

What About other Industries?

Sex AppealCertain catalogs, such as

Victoria’s Secret and Men’s Fitness, have models with

large amounts of sex appeal. This form of media puts stress on people to be

more like a sexy figure.

Females For a female,

sex appeal means large butts,

breasts, skinny waists and big

hips.There is no need for “Push-Up” bikinis, but

this advertisement is hoping to lure females in who want to look like this

model.

What message is this sending young children?

For a male, sex appeal means large muscles and

broad shoulders.This could lead some men into certain strict diets of protein shakes and extreme exercise.

Males

Social Effects

Role Models, Clothing, and relationships

are all affected from different

types of media.

Celebrities and Clothing

Certain people look up to celebrities, such as singers or actors, as role models.

The materialistic items that celebrity has is admired by

the person. People can feel “unworthy” or not “ugly” if these high-end, expensive, designer

items are not obtained. They make social comparisons!

RelationshipsSocial networking

sites have changed the way people communicate.

Expressing words that are difficult to say in person are

easily done through typed sentences.

This could have the potential to either

help or harm a person’s feelings. It gives people less

face-to-face contact.

How can these effects change lives?

Eating disorders can cause detrimental harm to the body. Some effects include infertility, malnutrition, anemia, blurred vision/thought, fainting, and possibly death.

Physical Changes

Emotional Changes

Meagan Meier(1990-2006)

How do cultures compare?

Rates of eating disorders from high to low:

Native Americans

Caucasians/Hispanics

African Americans (But they have similar rates of binge disorder, Asians

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