Media and Young Girls

from: Kristen

Media influences the young generation. Girls want to be attractive like their role models on television. Media is sending wrong messages to people. The photo contains content, context, form, line, shape, and color to show how media effects gender socialization.This picture shows the content and context to how gender socialization
is effected by the media. Girls view the people on television shows as role models. In this picture a young girl is looking at a poster of Erica Durance from the television show Smallville. Erica Durance is posing sexually. Girls want to be beautiful. They want to look like the people on television. The girl in this photo is admiring Erica Durance's poster. She is stuffing her bra with toilet paper so her
chest will look big like Erica Durance's chest. Her shirt is low cut in order to show cleavage. The door is closed in the background which shows that the girl is hiding her insecurity. Television and magazines are sending the wrong message to people. Media influences people to think they have to look a certain way.

The form, line, and shape were arranged in this picture. The poster is on the wall with the young girl standing in front of it. It is a side view. You can clearly see that the girl is staring at the poster while stuffing her bra with toilet paper. In the background the door is shut. The door is directly behind the girl and the border of the door draws your attention to her. The closed door represents the fact that the girl is hiding what she is doing.

The color is bright in this photo. The room is white and bright. The girl is wearing a bright pink shirt which is usually the color that represents the female sex. This picture is clear.

The Media sends wrong messages to young girls. Girls think they have to look sexual and have big breast in order to be beautiful. Girls are feeling insecure because they do look like the people on television. They will go as far as stuffing their bra with toilet paper in order to be beautiful. The photo shows content, context, form, line, shape, and color to represent how media effects gender socialization.