Is Body Image Affected By Mass Media?

Throughout the 20th century, the mass media helped shape the American culture; however, culture has not only been influenced. The media began to change the way people think about themselves and other people. Body images are an important part of women's self-perception: it affects her self esteem, confidence and healthy habits. Beyond generations, women acquire voting rights, and media has become increasingly strictly managing the image of the body. For decades, women must be able to do what they can to become a part of the culture dominated by men, when men wear gorgeous clothes, when maintaining a slim state, etc. I thought. "There is an instant message on the mass media.

Body images are greatly affected by portrayal by mass media of optimal body shape for slimming. The use of adolescent girls by media represents two extreme images. They usually appear as free-flowing extroverted or introverted, experiencing gaze without focus in the second early childhood, usually soft skin, pink cheeks and wide eyes. Today, slimming targets are shown on media images of TV, magazines, bulletin boards. Female magazine advertisements include better meals and other digital functions than advertisements in men's magazines. These ads show the ideal women's body, and then many women can compare their figure with this ideal and use diet as a measurement. In fact, according to a survey of mass media magazines, advertisements and articles of women's magazines promote weight reduction by 10.5 times in men's magazines. (Brew)

The influence of the image of mass media and interpersonal relationships on the human body image has influenced many young Chinese women. They create an image of the body as information about society and tell it to young Chinese women. Appearance pressure is related to physical dissatisfaction. This information is disseminated through television, magazines, advertisements, movies. In Don's "Afraid of modern Chinese girls" she is explaining about the quality of the leading contemporary Chinese girls in the press. These figures are considered to be Chinese excellence and respected women figures.