Media Effects On Body Image

Seven out of ten girls believe they are not suitable, appealing, intelligent and/or amiable enough. From the beginning of time to the present day, people of higher influence have caused both males and females alike to look to them for the way their lives should be perceived by others. Today’s media and those conventional lifestyle portray what the “perfect” body should be like. However, these body images constantly change over time. Those who control the media, ranging from people within the government to Hollywood, flood the media with messages that tell people that their way of living is not good enough if they do not mirror this version of perfection. Therefore making the average person believe that they cannot be happy and live a peaceful

Those who have jurisdiction over the media influence society in many ways including: subliminal messaging, manipulation, through creating role models and advertisements, fabricating their ideal of what they believe to be the right way of living and the body image they want everyone to emulate.
Subliminal messaging plays an immense role in influencing the society of the world. Subliminal messaging works by affecting the subconscious part of the human mind through visual and audio. Visual mediation, publisher of, Subliminal Messages: How They Work and How They Affect Us, makes the following analogy, “Think of your mind as an iceberg. The conscious part is the tip of the iceberg that you see on the surface of the sea, say 5% of the total part of the iceberg, while

Manipulation is the act of getting people to believe that what those of a higher power in society are saying is unerring. One way influential people take advantage of manipulation is through a technique called, photo manipulation. An example of photo manipulation is photoshopping. Photoshopping plays both a negative and positive influential role in the way youth feel about their body image. Corporate-owned media use this to create what they feel is the perfect body. Media use models with already close-to-flawless bodies and then utilize photoshopping afterwards to make it quintessential. In the episode of the classic tv series “Twilight Zone”, “Number Twelve Looks Like You”, there are two body types available to males and females. The young men and women are forced into choosing between one of these likenesses. Because of this, civilians are manipulated to believe that their figure is ugly if their physique does not look like one of these ideal bodies. Society today is doing the same thing through the media and television ads. Manipulation also plays a role in how people feel about certain subjects, including: someone 's religious, political, or even parenting views. In George Orwell’s 1984, the government of Oceania, also known as The Party, had complete control over what the residents viewed. Winston, the main character, wrote “If there is hope, wrote Winston,