Conversation Synthesis As technology advances media becomes more prominent in our society and culture. Now a day’s pictures of thin models and photoshopped advertisements are hanging everywhere and impossible to escape. Media is constantly pushing these unrealistic images and advertisements on both women and girls pressuring them to live up to an unattainable beauty standard. While there are many aspects to the problems media causes the main three are Medias influence on children, the development of eating disorders and self-esteem levels. To begin with, children are their parents’ most prized possession yet there have been no steps taken to reduce the negative effects media thrusts on them. Youths exposed to media experience unrealistic …show more content…
Another research paper by Kevin Thompson and Leslie Heinberg reaffirms this by stating “Of 3,452 women responding, 23% indicated that movie or television celebrities influenced their body image when they were young, and 22% endorsed the influence of fashion magazine models” (341). Shelley then reiterates on this point by stating “Social media has and will continue to assert increasingly negative and detrimental images for emulation on adolescents’ developing notions of body image. This is unhealthy for adolescents, both in this critical period as well as in their later lives” (32). All these points are supported by the first-hand experience of Graciela Rodriguez who at the age of thirteen wrote, “I left depressed, …show more content…
By stepping back and looking at all the different sources and seeing both personal, scientific, and opinion based perspectives I was surprised to find that media is a bigger problem than what I first expected. By realizing this and seeing all the negative effects and how long they have been progressively escalating I decided that I wanted to take a stance to argue for my audience to get involved in the topic and make a