From: Emily
“Am I pretty?” ”Am I skinny?” “Am I
enough?” “Am I lovable?” These are often questions that adolescents frequently
ask themselves. This is largely due to the mass media influence in today’s
society and its involvement in adolescents’ lives. Because media is often just
a matter of entertainment to adolescents, they fail to realize that the media
is actually affecting the way they view themselves; physically, emotionally,
and mentally. The media blurs the thought process that adolescents maintain because
the vast majority of influence the media upholds is negative. On the flip side
most adolescents have parents who reinforce positivity and self-encouraging
attitudes.
Having two opposing voices being inputted into one young individual can
blur the way they view themselves as a person. This is what the blur of the
picture represents. The different questions or thoughts are meant to symbolize
what that young girl is internally thinking and to portray how the media has
damaged her mind. The different questions suggest that media has often
portrayed adolescent girls as pretty, slim and popular. The amount of questions
in the picture, as well as the question “Who am I?” represent a state of
confusion caused by the battle of the mind to see what is true and what is
false. Lastly the diagonal lines portrayed in the image are meant to represent
that what media depicts adolescents should be is, in fact, skewed and incorrect,
that the expectations the media has for adolescents is unrealistic, and rather
unfair.
2 comments:
I find this image to be a good example of a teenage girls everyday thoughts. Young girls are always asking themselves if they are good enough for everyone else, and don’t try to make themselves good enough for their own happiness. One thing I find interesting about the girl in the photo is that she is some what rebelling towards society preferences. She doesn’t look like she's wearing a lot of makeup, showing that she feels beautiful without it, as she should. She also isn't wearing a "girly", she's wearing a green flannel, which isn't seen as normally being seen as a outfit for a girl. I think its very important for girls to do this, because societies preferences are unrealistic, and don’t make you as unique as girls that disobey societies rules.
I think this is a lot of young teens thoughts. Everyone is always comparing themselves to the media and it does not help that media plays a big part in today society. Media is in our everyday lives. From television to music it is all around us. It does not help that everybody finds someone or something to look up to and they want to be just like them.
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