Blogpost 2: "Brain Damaged Standardisation!"

Media have been a huge part of everybody's life. I swear to God that it affects our daily lifestyle and our attitude towards everything that might come our way. Even a simple cartoon show may affect our attitude towards work. Children and adults are influenced by media in some ways. Some also may refuse to grow up.

Animated Violence for Kids!

Joanne Cantor, Ph.D. says in her article, "We can't randomly assign children early in their lives to watch different doses of violence on television and then 15 years later see which children committed violent crimes.". For more information about his research, go to this link http://www.yourmindonmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/media_violence_paper.pdf.

It indeed affect the children and the way they grow up. Children often want to grow up and become like their idols. Some turn out to be bad and maybe become a bully or a loser or maybe even criminal. Some would stood up and speak their minds. I can say this because I also have been a child. I would often pattern my life to a movie or in a television show. Who doesn't anyways?

Look at My Body Electric, Baby!

Media can also affect our body image, health, emotions, and lifestyle. It greatly affects women. They have this conception of being beautiful and aggressiveness in fashion is what women do. The would often feel insecure and become indulge into something that harms their body like bulimia and anorexia and self-harming. But not all women are affected by this and not all men are immune to this.

In this article, Kasey L. Serdar said that, "Body image isa a complicated aspect of the self-concept that concerns an individual's perceptions and feeling about their body and physical appearance (Cash & Pruzinsky, 2002)."

For more info, just click here: http://www.westminstercollege.edu/myriad/index.cfm?parent=2514&detail=4475&content=4795

Anorexic Modelling License, Everyone?

Modelling scouts recruits patients with an eating disorder to lure them into modelling. Katy Waldman said in her article, “People have stood outside our clinic and tried to pick up our girls because they know they are very thin." She then added, “It sends the wrong signals,”
check out her article at 






http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/04/22/modeling_scouts_recruit_teen_patients_at_swedish_anorexia_clinic_are_you.html








Well, it is indeed a requirement to have standards when it comes to the way people look. You cannot just go to work with undies. But media sometimes has those very high expectations that a human almost cannot achieve naturally. Media often lead to something so beautiful, or a road kill. It often becomes a psychological defect to girls.

What do you guys think? Is media imposing a standard? Is it causing a psychological defect or just a misconception of people? Post your comment below!