Thesis

Body issues are prevalent in our society, these issues are serious problems, millions of young girls and woman are struggling with this issue; across the nation in order to transform themselves into what society defines as “beautiful”. Social media gives a false “ideal image” and pressures females to be society’s idea of thin. 

Technology Progress or Prevail?

I think this is a very wishy washy subject, people can argue for hours on what the right answer is.  These readings on technology really opened my eyes. I realized that the statement that people use technology and don’t know how or why is absolutely true. I use technology everyday and to be quite honest I never even thought on how it was invented or anything like that, I just use it.  I think that I need to start opening my eyes more and realizing what I am using. I think technology is created to make progress but people abuse it and bring prevail. 

Annotated Bibliograph

Brown, Amy, and Helga Dittmar. "Think, "Thin" And Feel Bad: The Role Of Appearance Schema Activation, Attention Level, And Thin-Ideal Internalization For Young Women's Responses To Ultra-Thin Media Ideals." Journal Of Social & Clinical Psychology 24.8 (2008): 1088-1113. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Apr. 2013.

Exposure to thin media models has a negative effect on women's body image, and the current study extends previous research by examining the relative impact and interrelation of an individual’s differences in women's internalization of the thin ideal, and an individual’s tendency to make social comparisons with media models. Body-focused anxiety of adult professional women was examined after they had been exposed to one of three types of images: thin models, average -size models, or no models. This analysis confirmed that thin-ideal internalization and tendency toward appearance-related social comparisons act as moderators of media effects, but internalization is a more proximal and specific predictor of women's anxiety than more general social comparison. Negative reactions to thin images are conditional on internalization only, whereas high internalization undermines the positive effects of exposure to average-size models when it combines with strong habitual social comparison.

            I would say this source is very reliable because it’s from a clinical research as well. Also because it’s pretty recent since the study was done in 2008.

            I think this is a perfect source to help me prove my argument on how the media has a negative effect on women’s body issues. I am going to use the statistics that are explained in this source. 

Pearls Before Breakfast

In "Pearls Before Breakfast," Joshua Bell, a famous virtuoso, plays the violin for 45min in a subway starting at 7:51am. By most he goes unnoticed. People pass by in a rush on their morning commute. Only 7 people stopped to appreciate his playing and only one person recognized him. By the end of his performance, he had made $32 in change. I think entertainment is a personal choice. The people who walked by and dropped change in were entertained. I think everyone has his or her own personal choice of entertainment. I feel that if people were notified of who he was, they would have stopped and payed more attention. Also, I feel like people on the subway are hurrying to get to work and don’t unavoidably have time to stop and listen. Generally I feel there were many different outcomes of why people didn't stop to enjoy the music, but it will always be based on a personal preference. 

Interviews Gone So Wrong!

This is a perfect example of interviews gone wrong. I don't know about you but being on your cell phone and saying you can bring "sexy back" is not the right way to respond in an interview. These are some funny job interview answers. Hopefully none of these candidates were hired.

MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless

This article was very interesting; over the years the term “friend” has gained much more meaning. Everyone knows that one person with over two thousand Facebook friends, but the question is dose that person actual have a friendship with all those two thousands friends. My assumption is probably not. I think that social networking has changed our view on what a “friend” is. Don’t get me wrong I think Facebook and other social networking sites are great. They help you remain in contact with friends in your country as well as in other countries.  I think some people go a little bit over board when adding friends. To me a friend is someone who I could call and have a comfortable conversation or someone I could call in an emergency, not somebody who just pops up occasionally in my news’s feed. If Facebook disappeared I know I wouldn’t become friendless. I would still maintain my close friendships.