MEDIA MOTIVES

• Mental health


  The way your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors affect your life
• Media motives


  • Sex Appeal
  • Join the Bandwagon: Everyone is getting one!
  • Best Value
  • New & Improved
• Strategies for Becoming a Critical Viewer of the Media

  1. All media images and messages are constructions. They are NOT reflections of reality

  2. Advertisements are created to do one thing: convince you to buy or support a specific product or service

  3. To convince you to buy a specific product or service, advertisers will often construct an emotional experience that looks like reality. Remember that you are only seeing what the advertisers want you to see

  4. Advertisers create their message based on what they think you will want to see and what they think will affect you and compel you to buy their product

  5. As individuals, we decide how to experience the media messages we encounter
• Self-esteem


  How much you feel you are worth — and how much you feel other people value you
• Body image


  How you view your physical self — including whether you feel you are attractive and whether others like your looks
• What Influences a Person's Self-Esteem


  • Puberty and Development
  • Media Images and Other Outside Influences
  • Families and School Family life can sometimes influence our body image
• Anorexia


  • People with anorexia have a real fear of weight gain and a distorted view of their body size and shape
• Bulimia


  • Bulimia is similar to anorexia. With bulimia, people might binge eat (eat to excess) and then try to compensate in extreme ways, such as making themselves throw up or exercising all the time, to prevent weight gain