Blog Answers to these Questions

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1. Which of the 8 rules of Media Literacy is illustrated in the Beauty and Body Image article? Why and how?
2. The article on advertising to children is a great example of media constructing reality (#2 rule of Media Literacy). Can you think of an example of media constructed reality aimed at teens? Tell me what it is and how it constructs reality.
3. The commercial implications (#4) of media literacy are illustrated in The Economics of Ethnicity link. Do you think most media does a good job of showing what your real life is like? The number of minority people you see daily, the kinds of problems you have in real life, the way those problems get solved - are these things that you see in TV shows, movies and advertising?

 Answers: 

1.  The 8 rules of Media Literacy that's illustrated in the Beauty and Body Image article is that all media is constructed, you think the way you think because of media, media has commercial implications, audience negotiate the meaning in media,  media contain valuable messages, media has political and social implications, the forms and content in media, and each media has a type aesthetic form.

2. An example of media constructed toward teens is like TV shows or Dramas because the tv shows is like reality and teens sometimes look up to the celebrities like their role model.

3. I don't really think media does a good job showing what your real life is like because TV shows and movies are just like acting and they do not show their natural beauty or self because they're acting out the script and they have makeup on and they probably photoshop their figures.