I would just like to point out that even though I've already read this piece, it still wasn't an easy piece to read....especially now that I had to look at it through a new set of eyes and a different mindset! This piece was still pretty dense and although it is full of many important points I pulled out some quotes that I felt were the best representations of the article and the ones that I kept referring back to.
1. "Media sell both products and ideas, both personalities and worldviews; the notion that mass media products and cultural values are fundamentally intertwined has gained broad public acceptance." page 161
>When I read this section of the article I thought to myself "how completely true." The media is basically selling us who we want to be in every aspect, no matter which way you look at it. By promoting products the media is encouraging you to be a certain way and by having certain people endorse those products the media is basically saying when you use/have this product you're like the person endorsing it.
2. "In essence, the media accumulation of media images suggests what is "normal" and what is "deviant." This articulation is accomplished, in large part, by the fact that popular media, particularly television and mass advertising, have a tendency to display a remarkably narrow range of behaviors and lifestyles, marginalizing or neglecting people who are "different" from the mass-mediated norm." page 163
>So this section really stuck out to me. I think the media's idea of normal can go F it's self (: The media portrays this lifestyle that is pretty much unattainable. For instance, women are supposed to be skinny & beautiful & the reality is not every woman out there is a size 0, women are beautiful in their own way but no that's too "different" and unacceptable. The media portrays men as having to be muscular and toned and cocky when most men are just sweet, sensitive guys but NOPE sorry that's too "different" as well. The media portrays such a narrow view.
3. "Media representations are intertwined with questions of power and ideology because the process of giving meaning to events suggests that, potentially, there are multiple definitions of reality." page 168
After reading your post, I agree with your first quote and I'm surprised it didn't stick out more to me the first two times I read this piece. But great minds think alike and we have the same quotes for the following quotations. I thought both of them were just really important and interesting. And I agree that even though we read this one last semester, it still wasn't an easy read.
ReplyDeletethe first quote is right on because teenagers or children look at them and say i have to buy it or dress like them in the commercial and some of them feel like they have to be like that. The tv doesn't help a lot for young teen girls and how it shapes them in this world.
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ReplyDeletethose quotes did not stick out to me, but you are making some valid points.
And I totally agree with your second explanation of things.
What is "normal" anyways ....
The quotes you used are great! I agree with how the media sells us products!
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