Have you ever wanted to look or act like a person from a movie, t.v. show, or a magazine?
Who? Why?
Can you identify a person real or fiction who ruined their life trying to be someone they were not?
What issues occur because of identity or image problems?
With how media surrounds us in tv shows, movies, and social media, it makes sense that there would be a imprint on our identity.
Can you identify a person real or fiction who ruined their life trying to be someone they were not?
What issues occur because of identity or image problems?
With how media surrounds us in tv shows, movies, and social media, it makes sense that there would be a imprint on our identity.
Media Identity- images, words, and characters or personae—to convey specific ideas and values related to culture and identity in society. Individuals model, imitate, and judge themselves by those representations.
So the question is, is the media identity a contributing factor in issues with the young and old?
Like poor self esteem, cutting, anorexia, supplement abuse, bulimia, plastic surgery, etc. ?
Like poor self esteem, cutting, anorexia, supplement abuse, bulimia, plastic surgery, etc. ?
Activity
1) Pick a category
2) Analyze the articles/ videos in your category
3) Sketch/create the kind of person and family your category depicts
2) Analyze the articles/ videos in your category
3) Sketch/create the kind of person and family your category depicts
- What values do they have?
- What characteristics do they have?
- What traditions do they celebrate?
- What fears do they have?