Television's Effect on Self Image

A new mirror appeared on the market, and many families made changes using these mirrors. These new mirrors are like pure white mirrors and they tell you who is the most beautiful. A small girl tells you that you have to look at your new mirror, make up yourself, and look something beautiful in some way. This new mirror is a television, and the voice to tell her is the media. Media draws the beauty of women somewhat distorted. Because the media is badly distorted, women start to see unrealistic beauty, and we think that all women should be treated this way.

These images from movies, television, various ads attack women; they often produce unrealized images of how they should appear. It may cause anorexia, bulimia, low self-esteem, many other problems. Of course, these images also affect men's expectation for what women should act on "behaviors" and what they should see. For any child, parents can help them form a more healthy attitude toward their body. Being a good role model is always helpful. First of all, it is important to avoid judging your body shape, charm, or appeal with weight loss. On the contrary, focusing on the positive importance of health and diet leads to good habits and more healthy body images.

Teenagers often find themselves and build their identity. Images seen by teens in technology, especially the Internet, TV, movies, have had a great impact on this process. Images in television and movies continue their ideals and norms of images and behaviors of the body and some research institutions like the American Psychiatric Association have teenagers and children often get clues from television believe. In recent years, news media has widely covered the dangers of "pornographic content". Despite controversy on accurate numbers, many teenagers send their porn images and videos on their mobile phones. In prominent cases, teenagers who shared these pictures were charged even with child pornography (msnbc.msn.com). Online teenagers may also be the target of sex predators in chat rooms and social networking sites.

Media media is one of social and cultural influences, and as a result of thorough investigation, the focus of the media's image on the image of the body is the focus. Studies have shown that women who watch many TV programs and read about fashion magazines are more likely to physically change by media than men (DC Jones, Vigfusdottir, & Y.Lee, 2004; Ricciardelli and McCabe, 2001). However research has shown that the media is unrealistically ideal, affecting dissatisfaction with the body of the woman and being accused of being hungry (Wykes & Gunter, 2005). Men are tall and muscular, whereas men's magazines, advertisements, television, the Internet, etc. have these pictures everywhere, while the media draws the appearance of women as thin and big breasts. Use techniques and special effects when editing photos to make images more perfect than real life