4)I will always tell myself not to believe or being influenced by the media’s message. Everyone can be anyone he or she wants to be. We should just follow our heart and go with the flow.

5)I have learnt that media truly has an big impact to people’s lives after this module. People will be affected or brainwashed in any environment,especially children,which do not have the ability to judge whether it is right or wrong, so media acts as an important tool to educate people. To sum up, I think everyone of us should really be careful and wise to conclude our own thoughts and conclusions.

 

In the advertising premise, it is often that we see the sexual objectification of women – specifically their bodies as it is highly assumed that these products are targeted for the male gaze. Even if females are the main audience, its sole purpose is still to tell women that that is how they should present themselves to men, that is what men prefers. 

In the end it is always about what men want. Coincidentally yet unsurprisingly, most of the masterminds behind these ideas are usually men.

2.) After watching the video: “Miss Representation”, it focuses on the year 2013, I found out that how the media had failed women. We can’t deny that the advertising field is now mostly focus on the women body. We can see in most of the advertisement, when comes to female model, they will focusing on their body shape, heavy makeup, sexual positions, as well as the drastic photoshopping. Other than women, men is also becoming the latest victim of media misrepresentation. Typically, men are portrayed as sexually aggressive, powerful.  We should try to counter the misrepresentation by differentiate the fantasy and the reality. Many of the advertising companies are starting to use real women. This means no more photoshop, and more retouching. This aim is to get back the realistic standards.

3.) Because we live in the world where people will judge you by their perspective. Their perspective are mostly influenced by media. For example, there are many young girls influenced by the Korean wave such as their makeup and also their fashion. 

4.) Self-control plays a very important role when we need to guard ourselves from getting influence by the media. For me, as a super Korean drama-holic, I enjoy watching the drama but in the same time I will control myself for not easily get influenced by those plot settings. 

5.) Throughout this module, I have learnt how strongly the media industry can easily influence and control people’s lives. For example, when I saw some middle-east countries using the childhood fictional characters such as Mickey Mouse to easily influence those young children’s mind. Besides, media does affect my life as well, for example, I love following the Korean celebrities’ makeup and their fashion sense. I also enjoy watching their dramas. ,

 

Yes and yes. So often that we argue about women being misrepresented in media that we forget that men also get the same treatment. The trope is always about the testosterone-filled heterosexual masculine man getting the ladies with the hottest bodies which results in the media portraying a toxic standard. It actually hurts both sides. I believe we can counter these misrepresentations in media by voicing out our rejection towards this concept. 

 

We have the privilege to be informed of what is happening, so it is of our own initiative that we create conversations and arguments about this issue to get other people talking about it too – to bring out awareness. I’ve witnessed people who I’ve followed on Twitter openly calling out to certain media and starting a discussion about it. 

 

For instance, from what I can remember was the AirAsia’s unnecessary portrayal of a flight stewardess’ backside in a flight promotion advertisement. I was ignorant and thought nothing was wrong with it but only when these people raised this issue that I actually started seeing the problem – the advertisement and media as a whole. With this, we need to always be informed of what we’ve been fed with by the media – ignorance and passivity are a dangerous combination to an imminent stupidity. 
 

 

The concept of beauty varies throughout the vast cultures existing in this world, but what the contemporary media is defining these days are always, always the European beauty standards – white, porcelain skin, tall nose, full lips, silky hair, slender body, basically we need to look white in order to be beautiful. 

It is such a scary phenomenon as people from variety of cultures are being fed with these standards from when they’re little and as they grow up with this idea ingrained in their minds, it would feel almost impossible to shake that notion off. 

It is sad to see that some of my friends using mercury-filled facial products to shed their melanin off and be extremely pale. It is extremely disappointing that we’re constantly hating on and changing ourselves just to adhere to these standards. 
 

 

Although it is a painstakingly long journey to get to where I am today in regards to accepting myself (still a long way to go), I’ve learned that we should always try to love ourselves no matter what. This includes ignoring what some media and even people are telling you wrong, telling you who you should become, telling you what you are supposed to do and look like and just telling you to become someone you are not comfortable being. 

 

While it seems impossible, it not so as we have plethora of resources when it comes to self-acceptance and positivity on the Internet. Read more positive articles about your body, follow people who love themselves for who they are, learn and be inspired by them, never feel sorry for who you are, instead feel pitiful for those who will never get to see that beautiful side of you. Loving and caring for yourself is a scary concept, but I can assure you that the experience towards that would be so worth it. 
 

 

I’ve realized that we should never underestimate the power of media in shaping and altering perceptions of society – because when we let our guards down and downgrade the capability of media, it is also when we succumb to ignorance and laziness in being informed. Media is an agent of many strong concepts; it can inform, change minds, plant an idea and even distract us from what is important. 

By learning about it, I’ve come to terms that I should always question and not let others do the thinking for me. We should weigh every possibilities of an issue and conclude it with our own opinions. Basically, media is manipulative lil sh*ts so we should always be on guard. 

2) Woman are truly misrepresented in the media along with men. We should not even be objectifying both genders. It is wrong.

3) Our culture is driven by beauty because of how beauty is shown everywhere we go. That isn’t a good thing. They leave those standards of beauty impossibly high for everyone out there.

4) I wouldn’t trust what the media says as they might have gotten false information and report it online without finding out the full truth. A person can be whoever they want to be.

5) The media plays a big part of people’s lives.

 

Objectification in advertising happens when media advertise women and making them look like an object instead of a person.  

 

2)  Are women truly misrepresented in the media? Does media misrepresentation of men exist as well? How can we counter misrepresentations in the media? 

 

My answer is yes to both questions. Sometimes men are represented as strong romantic human beings that are only responsible to give love and women would always have high expectations towards their partners and never realize their own mistakes. We can counter misrepresentations in the media by always showing the reality of how men and women are. 

 

3) Why is our culture driven by “beauty?” Who defines those standards of beauty?  

 

Beauty always lies in the eyes of the beholder. Everyone is too driven by beauty because of their own insecurities. If you’re not pretty, it is almost as if you do not belong. 

 

4) As young people are deemed the most susceptible to media's messages and influence of peer pressure, how can you guard yourself against what the media tells and shows you about how you should be as a person, whether as a male /female, thin/plus-sized, Asian/POC, LGBT/hetero/masculine/feminine stereotypes, rich/poor/urban/rural, cool and 

popular/uncool/outcast etc.

 

I will always try to stay true to myself. As long as I’m happy and healthy, nothing is going to stop me from being who I am. 

 

5) After having sat through the lectures in this module and have gone through the exercises in the tutorials, what have you learnt and realised about how the media affect most people’s lives and affect yours? 

 

The media has hurt a lot of people and I have to admit media has once affected me too. Media has changed the way people act and often people think that they have to act the way the media expect them to. 

Objectification refers to people, or in some cases animals, being considered as objects or just mere things. For this instance, objectification in advertising is when a person, usually women, are treated as living dolls. Women are the most common victim when it is about objectification. Even now, female models are always sexualized, body always targeted by preying males. Even to female audience, these types of ads are forcing their impression of the normal standard of how a woman should look like to the rest, making some feel insecure about their body or face. Men are affected as well. When ads show the perfect male body, it tends to make normal men like you and me to feel bad about ourselves.

The answer is yes and definite yes. People often say women are the only ones affected by the media’s interpretation of them, but in reality men are affected just as much.

 I feel that there really isn’t a solid counter to these misrepresentations because sadly it is in our human nature to constantly judge and want to be perfect. There can be some counters but it will never last long. I’ve seen many cases where media companies get under fire for having something controversial regarding a man or woman’s physical, social or mental attribute. However, after several apologies and probably a bit of secretive bribing :P, the public forgets about it and just let it pass as it is without making sure it does not happen again.
 
 

The definition of beauty varies in different areas. In most western countries, the man should be masculine, nice facial hair, slightly tanned and tall and women should somehow be busty yet slim. For most Asian countries, the man should have fair skin, tall, big eyes and thin yet muscular body and women should have milky white skin, super slim body and long legs. However, they all mostly have one thing in common which is white. Apparently being white what is needed to meet the “beauty” standard.

It is strange how when we were children we did not care about this lowly standard but somehow as we get older, it gets hammered into our brains, making us think and judge like the rest of this damned world. People will say it’s due to upbringing and all that crap. I think otherwise. I feel that society is mostly to be blamed. Partly our own fault because we let this judgmental way of thinking into our mindset.

It affects us so much yet we don’t realize it till we actually experience it firsthand. People judge those who take plastic surgery whether the outcome is outrageous or not but they are at fault too. If we never judged or criticized anyone because of their appearance in the first place, taking plastic surgery would’ve been the last thing on their mind, or not at all.

So how did these standards of beauty did come about? Probably some lowlife or a group of them decided that they were superior in terms of appearances.
 

I’m not one to talk as I am nowhere near accepting how I look like but in order to answer this question, I just have to. The best way to shield yourself against these poison is to not feel anything towards it at all. Oh, the media says Asians are always good at maths, so what? Ignore and move on. Oh, Donald Trump says all muslim are terrorist, who gives two shit about what he says? Ignore and move on. The most effective way is to ignore what they tell you and just let your own self decide. Unfortunately, you have to be a total saint or someone who reached total enlightenment to be able to achieve that.
 
 

Media affects everyone, good way or bad way, no stopping that. The media is actually a very powerful tool. In the wrong hands, it can be used to degrade people. It changes peoples’ perspective of society.

I learnt that we should never just believe what the media tells you right away. Stop for a moment, think, question it. Don’t just let this incurable disease spread throughout your whole body, because once it is through, there’s no turning back. �?

2.    Yes, women are truly misrepresented in the media and so are men. In the media, a work driven woman is considered a bitchy boss that is single and unmarried; a masculine looking woman that is actually an Olympics athlete is considered too unattractive; a woman who merely spills their emotion into the social media is quickly judged as an emotional attention seeker. Whereas for man, they are viewed are masculine beings that aren’t allowed to cry; a man is only considered successful when he owns the 5 C’s in his hands, which are cash, car, condominium, country club member and credit card. The only way to encounter the misrepresentations that were created by the media is to fully educated ourselves with the true definition of living as a human being. We have to educate young kids, teenagers and also adults that stereotypes on the media should not be applied into our daily real life situations, because a person you see in the streets or a random coffee shop shouldn’t be judged quickly just like how we would automatically judge someone on the social media by scrolling miles upon their Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. 

3.    Everybody wants to be beautiful; everybody easily is, but the media is the one whom diverted the definition of beauty into a whole different perspective.   

4.    When I was younger, I was extremely social media driven that it affected the balance of my life between my academics and my social life. I remember worrying over the activeness of my Instagram rather than my grades in school. I was trying my best to follow the fashion trends and ended up neglecting my own fashion style and personality. When I was 16, I started studying mass communication and public relation documentaries in the library and realize how powerful social media could control a person’s habitual routine and even mess up their priorities, I truly understand because I was a victim of the media before.

Only after that big moment of truth, I finally realized that the media shouldn’t tell me how should I be as a person but instead, I should be listening to myself to feel content. I’ve done researches on media trendsetters, bloggers and journalist who are successful like Anna Wintour, Yan Yan Chan, Zoe Suen etc. The only reason why they were content with their work and most importantly successful in their part of the industry was because they never let the media tell them what to do but instead, they were the ones controlling the media. When it all comes into a conclusion, a person should stay true to themselves. Be it a person with a bombarding fashion sense, gay or lesbian, poor or not as privileged as famous celebrities, we shouldn’t dim ourselves but instead embrace the best that we have.

5.    I’ve learnt that the social media is indeed truly a very powerful platform to share news to the audience. There are endless twisted and unpredictable studies to the behavior of the social media because they are in the end, controlled by the smartest and most complicated intellectual living being on the earth, humans. It had affected my life and the people around me because most information that we attain are entirely driven by the media, as it is the primary source for us when we want to reach out for knowledge. 

In my opinion, objectification meant by a general opinion given after the evaluation of investigation or researches. Differ from subjectivity, it is not an personal thinking but a majority thoughts. Nowadays in advertisements, objectification is an getting serious issue. As modernity takes over, the advertisements have evolved in time and lack ethics and violate against people's rights, where people are getting objectified.

2) Are women truly misrepresented in the media? Does media misrepresentation of men exist as well? How can we counter misrepresentations in the media?

Yes, the media have been misrepresented the women and men in the media. Media in advertising field is mostly focus on the body of women and men. For women they are more focusing on their body shape, positions, the makeup. However, men are more focusing on the masculine man.

3) Why is our culture driven by “beauty?” Who defines those standards of beauty?

Often a culture’s idea;s oppress the body. This is true of our era where the oppression of women and the cult of thinness are linked to the objectification of all living bodies. However, people can pay for a lot of beauty products and plastic surgery to make their become what they want. 

Nowadays, people from all works will definitely judge you no matter how you are look. In my opinion, it is always hard to satisfy what people think of you.

4) As young people are deemed the most susceptible to media's messages and influence of peer pressure, how can you guard yourself against what the media tells and shows you about how you should be as a person, whether as a male /female, thin/plus-sized, Asian/POC, LGBT/hetero/masculine/feminine stereotypes, rich/poor/urban/rural, cool and popular/uncool/outcast etc.

It is always a hard word for me to trust what the media had been said. The self-control are always plays an important role whenever the message have told in the media or other places.

5) After having sat through the lectures in this module and have gone through the exercises in the tutorials, what have you learnt and realised about how the media affect most people’s lives and affect yours? 

I have learnt from this module is that the media industry always controlling and influencing the people’s lives since in the old days. Nowadays people is easier to get brainwashed by the media, what the media have published the people is trusting on it.

 

2. It is true that women are misrepresented in media however this also include men as well. But then again, this misrepresentation are mostly fall on women. The media should really embraced the true nature of human imperfection and start implanting this idea to spread the awareness that there are no such thing as fix standard to be able to stand in media industry. 

 

3. It mostly depends on where this standard are set. The standard of beauty differs in a lot of places. But at the end, we as a person made the standard itself due to the influences that has been implanted to us. But on this current age, media has definitely made the heavy influences of beauty.

 

4. In order to guard ourselves, it’s best to avoid the influences the media tries to push to us. Always remember where we come from and to always remind ourselves that we cannot satisfy everyone on this world. 

 

5. The fact that the media has great deal of power to be able to brainwashed people are insane. Overall, the media has really shaped the society a lot in various way.

In my point of view, the word “objectification” is how human see others. In the advertising, women are having the ideal body.

 

 

2)  Are women truly misrepresented in the media? Doe media misrepresentation of men exist as well? How can we counter misrepresentations in the media? 

Yes, women are really misrepresented in the media. And the men are also misrepresented also. Because the men also being used to show their body. How we counter the misrepresentations is to educate them.

 

3) Why is our culture driven by “beauty?” Who defines those standards of beauty?

Because not only boy will see how pretty a girl is, the girls now also do this. So, a lot of people now can spend a lot of money to go for a plastic surgery. The standard of beauty is like how the Chinese people said, bright skin, rich and beauty. Then you’re perfect.

 

4) As young people are deemed the most susceptible to media's messages and influence of peer pressure, how can you guard yourself against what the media tells and shows you about how you should be as a person, whether as a male /female, thin/plus-sized, Asian/POC, LGBT/hetero/masculine/feminine stereotypes, rich/poor/urban/rural, cool and popular/uncool/outcast etc.

The young generation now are really easily influence by the media. So, self-control now is very important. Not to believe. Not to copy and so on.

 

 

5) After having sat through the lectures in this module and have gone through the exercises in the tutorials, what have you learnt and realised about how the media affect most people’s lives and affect yours? 

I have learnt that we should not blindly run after what is trend now. And think about your self-image and learn how to self-control. The media had affect a lot of people now especially the young girls. They have eating disorder just because they wanted to have a body just like the media show them. 

2.      Yes, woman has been misrepresented since the beginning of time. Women are ever so often viewed as the fairer sex. This dates back to the Greek philosophy, where women where taught to be weaker than men. How only men were made in God’s image and women were not. Women back then were only viewed as sexual being for men’s desire and nothing more. Women were not even treated as civilians, as they did not receive the right to vote. It is only natural that this ideology would be translated to modern day media as men’s misinterpretation of women is still ongoing. Women in media are debased as being a glorified sex object for men, often being depicted as physically and sexually attractive, with a pretty face, large breast, skinny waist and an hourglass figure. Seldom are they ever portrayed as smart human being with an intelligent mind. Due to the entertainment industry, by creating celebrities such as, Jessica Simpson, Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, media is obsessed on glorifying them based on their physical appearance, calling them “sex symbols”. This just goes on to blur the reality that not all women in the world look like those celebrities who graces the cover of countless magazines. Misrepresentation of men exist as well, but not to the same extent as women. Men are often depicted as a patriarchal figure that dominates the hierarchy. From the work force to the political and economic avenues, all men are perceived to have a streamline similarity, which are them being white, rich and middle-aged. This has significantly impacted the way men and women are treated in real life. The only way to stop the misrepresentation in media all comes down to our own selves. “Apathy” is the Achilles heel of today’s world, we are so quick to criticize others, that we don’t stop to think how it would feel if that same thing is done to us. We are quick to question why there is a fat actress on TV rather than to accept the basic fact that all humans come in all different shapes and sizes. We have to stop being critical of one another and ourselves, and start embracing all our flaws. With my struggles in high school, I have learn that nobody is perfect, because nothing in the world is absolute. We need to start changing our mentalities, only then will it translate to the media. Hopefully by then, the media will start to reflect a more truthful depiction of the world.

3.      Humans are by our very nature selfish and self-righteous creatures. Youth and teenagers (the majority that makes up the media), are even more so. It is only nature for us to desire something or someone that is aesthetically pleasing. Beauty: a quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind. It is no secret that men and women are instinctively drawn to something that pleases us. But due to some people’s excessive desires on beauty, it has manifested and created the one institution that seldom if not ever takes into account, the intelligence of a human being and focus more on outer beauty that they possess; and that institution is called the media. Media is heavily driven by celebrities who gain attention mostly on their looks and charm. By casting women with a certain criteria in media; pretty face, slim figure, people (especially women) start to believe that the majority of women, should look like that tiny 1% that is depicted in the media. Thus, unfortunately in this era, celebrities and the media hold the most influence in deciding the beauty standards of the world.

4.      Everyone is susceptible to the media’s influence. The youth are even more so. This is heavily contributed by three factors, the undeveloped mind of a teenager, the urge to explore oneself and life experiences. The only way that I could think of to combat the filtered and fabricated messages that the media portrays is “self-exploration”. You have to go out and see the world for what it is, with your own eyes, and not some computer screen. Socialize with the people around you and ask about their life experience. Use each and every bodies own unique individual story as a puzzle, and connect them all together to get the authentic idea of the current state of the world. Go out of your comfort zones and try new things that you would never in a million years would think to do. Humans are often stuck in their ways, mainly because they lack a sense of adventure and are to contempt with familiarity. By doing this, you will start to realise that the world does not revolve around you, in that we are a large species that populates the entire world, and our action has an effect of others.

5.      Yes, I have learn that media is a powerful tool that is used as a rhetoric. I have also learn that media, not so often or never actually project what is truthful. Due to the nature of the media, it has become a pitfall for many individuals. We must learn to have to strong belief that media is not a reflection of ourselves but rather a reflection of what people want us to be.

2.Yes, woman misrepresent in advertisement but man is not. Therefore, we need to voice out to the production team of advertisement and not agree with their way of advertisement 

3.Nowadays, all the people will attract by something that are beautiful, well-looking, and pretty. Sometimes, if u have a well-look that the others will remember you. So, ‘beauty’ is very important in our life. Everyone will have their own define about ‘beauty’ but sometime people will follow the way of artist or model dress up or hairstyle.

4.I will always remind myself don’t not blind follow the message that carry out by advertisement and self-control is very important. I love to be myself and not keep follow the trend of fashion because maybe some fashion is suitable for other but not for us. 

5.I had learnt not fully trusted and blind follow all the advertisement and we need to analysis the advertisement before we make a decision. By the way, we should not easily influence by the advertisement and should think before buy the product. Sometime, they will delivered some wrong information and we should choose wisely. �Ј

 

Treating a person as an object. Objectification in advertising is more to sexual objectification using women as an instrument.
 
 2)  Are women truly misrepresented in the
media? Doe media misrepresentation of men exist as well? How can we counter
misrepresentations in the media? 

 

Yes women are truly misrepresented in media. Men misrepresentation might exist but it is not as bad as women. We need to be aware of it cause media is always brain washing us.
 
 3) Why is our culture driven by “beauty?” Who
defines those standards of beauty?  

 

People judge a person by their first look. So those who are not that pretty they have this inferiority that they will be hated by the others. So it’s mostly to impress others.
 
 4) As young people are deemed the most susceptible
to media's messages and influence of peer pressure, how can you guard yourself
against what the media tells and shows you about how you should be as a person,
whether as a male /female, thin/plus-sized, Asian/POC, LGBT/hetero/masculine/feminine
stereotypes, rich/poor/urban/rural, cool and popular/uncool/outcast etc.

 

We have to have self respect and self confidence firstly. Shouldn’t believe the media fully cause it can brain wash us.

 
 5) After having sat through the lectures in this
module and have gone through the exercises in the tutorials, what have you
learnt and realised about how the media affect most people’s lives and affect
yours? 

 

I have learned that knowing things and having knowledge about certain stuffs is okay but we shouldn’t believe media fully cause it is a very bad influence dy> �QQ[3Ҹ

2. Yes to both the questions. We can encounter misrepresentations in the media by encouraging media to showcase the real side of women and man, instead of always making women the weak one and man the strong and charming one.

3. Our culture is driven by “beauty” because they think its a “must-do” thing to fit in to society. People who define those standards of beauty are people from the editorial section from the magazines and advertisements. They define it by photoshopping their models into unrealistic images that small girls and teenage girls crave to become.

4. By always sticking to the roots. It is important to stay down-to-earth to where you first started out. People these days tend to get easily influenced by the media with the fashion, what’s the latest hit song, the challenges and etc. The problem is these people are “controlled" by the media. They tend to think following trends play a big role in their lives rather than following what they truly believe in. I for one, am standing firm with the ideal of always sticking to the roots, always believing and keeping to my faith, as well as to always remember to never let technology to control me, because I believe technology is created to aid us.

5. I’ve learnt that social media is indeed a powerful tool in our daily lives. A lot of things can get twisted as well as posted with this powerful tool that can either change lives or destroy lives. Social media has indeed affected me at one point in life that I always have to follow the trend, but now, one thing I am certain that is even though the trends might be nice and all, even if you do not follow the trend, the Earth still spins on its orbit.