Monday, February 21, 2011

Advertising has a big affect on people..

When standing in line of the giant grocery store with my mom, helping her with some last minute shopping for food, I see different types of pictures/ images on the cover of magazines. Certain ones that draw my attention are the appearance of women celebrates and what shape their bodies are in. Ones that don't get my attention right away are the ones related to government/ political issues and people of that nature. The reason why only certain things appeal to me as well as others is based on certain fades/ habits that an individual is interested in. One way though to change this theory among people's magazine "looking" , could be to have you and others broaden their perspectives in different topics and types of advertising. Images can be used in magazines to display false information and also another big issue of images is bias information/ knowledge. When people look at magazines it is often a perspective to them that they want to look/ be/ or have whatever the celebrates are shown as. This can highly affect someones emotions in both a positive and negative way. It is always helpful that when looking or reading a magazine that you keep a self- respect among you so that way it can cause a prevention of emotional and mind thinking matter. This goes hand in hand with what is really reality compared to gossip. Iinvolved in seeing/reading the information presented to someone, emotions and opinions start to be processed in the mind and how people can begin to judge certain information they gained by a magazine. But back to a personal note about me involving magazines, I do not buy magazines because I look at what I am first drawn to and then once I am done I move on and forget about the items I retained in the magazine. (Why spend money on something I'll only use once) ??










1 comment:

  1. I agree that it is totally important to have self-respect and keep it in mind when looking at magazines like the one above ^ but how are women supose to develope self respect when the media doesnt show that its acceptable to look otherwise?

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