Wonder Woman By Gloria Steinem Analysis

Media plays a key role in American society, it shapes, manipulates, and influences us as individuals. Media can come in all forms such as the Internet, things we read, see, and hear. Media can have good effects and bad effects but it seems like media has been taking over recently. We see media everywhere, on our cellphones, in the news, even just listening to the radio. The media influences us as individuals and we respond to it in different ways. The Internet is a big provider of media, we respond to it not only physically but mentally too. In an article written by Nicholas Carr "Is Google making us Stupid" it explains how the Internet has an influence on us. When we are on the Internet we have the ability to look at anything which is good but it can also have a bad response. The Internet gives us the ability to hop from site to site or "power browse" (Carr 2 and 3), it makes us lose focus on what we were doing in the first place. Carr says in his article "the Net seems to be chipping away my capacity

Although people might think they won't respond to reading a comic Gloria Steinem is one person who has. In the essay "Wonder Woman" written by Gloria Steinem she tells us about how Wonder Woman had an impact on her life as a child. Comics are a media that can reach people and impact their lives at a young age. What kids read and see in comics influence them even if it's necessarily noticeable. Marston "invented Wonder Woman comic as a heroine for little girls, and also as a conscious alternative to the violence of comic books for boys". Wonder Woman is just one of the many comics that children have found someone to look up to in. Wonder Woman has made girls feel like they can do things for themselves and not need to rely on people to accomplish things. Wonder Woman personally affected Steinem and many of her co-workers and she responded by recreating Wonder Woman to her original form