The Evolutionary Change of Media and Its Impact on Society

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Stop for a while; look at who are the people in the media industry that inspire you the most. Now look through you Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. Who are those men and women you tag as your crush of the week. Are these celebrity pictures really how they look on a daily basic? Media has changed throughout the years and the technology used to edit pictures is sometimes taken to the extremes. With HD screens to camera lens that offer higher resolution; it’s easier to see the common pimples to the blemishes on people on TV screens. Not only that, but as new products are introduced into society; the culture around us changes. Not to talk about the propaganda methods used to launch these items. We have propaganda in magazines where women of a certain shape forms are the ones introducing these products. Weather you notice it or not all of these products, social media cites, and propaganda methods change society and what we consider the ideal/ beautiful body. Why does this happen though? Well, when we have new investigations like the one released by Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange (OTX) stating that “18-34-year-olds report spending 3.8 hours a day; 35-49-year-olds report spending 3 hours per day; and 50-64-year-olds report spending 2.4 hours per day. In terms of the gender difference, female social networkers spend almost 40% more time daily with social media sites than men (3.6 hours vs. 2.6 hours)” we can see that media is a big part of our culture and everything that is portrayed in media will affect society’s view points on what is acceptable and beautiful. It’s through media that people are sold and mold to a false idea of what is a beautiful/ideal body and through that process it changes the way society sets a standard of what is bea...

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