Two Scholarly Articles and Works Cited

One of the scholarly articles my group found is, Media Influences on Attitudes and Perceptions Toward the Body Among Adult Men and Women written by Marita P. McCabe, Kelly Butler, and Christina Watt from the Deakin University School of Psychology in Melbourne, Australia. This article researches media influence on both men’s and women’s body perception. It addresses issues where both men and women over estimate the size of specific body parts due to the media’s perception and influence suggesting what is beautiful and normal. This quote demonstrates and justifies the media’s influence and persuasion ability of the media. “The media has been found to be the most powerful and pervasive communicator of sociocultural values regarding ideal body size and shape (Heinberg, 1996). Newspapers, magazines, and television have been demonstrated to play a strong role in creating the current perception of the ideal man and woman (Cattarin et al., 2000; McCabe & Ricciardelli, 2003).” This is a good article for my group to use for our paper because it addresses both men and women. It is also a good resource to justify my group’s argument and support our claim.

The other article we found is titled The Media and Violent Behavior in Young People: Effects of the Media on Antisocial Aggressive Behavior in a Spanish Sample by Miguel Clemente Pablo Espinosa, and Miguelangel Vidal. In this study and scholarly article is discusses the relation between television, computer games, and the Internet and antisocial aggressive behavior in under- 18 year olds. This study is beneficial for my group’s paper because it looks at the more emotional side of the medias influence as opposed to physical. It also breaks down the argument in to looking at both male and female perspectives. After this study did different tests they came to the results that the media does have a strong influence and correlation with aggressive behaviors. But within the results they broke up the study into males and females and found a different end results for the two genders. This quote is a good representation of the media’s affect and people who are ideal role models responsibility in fixing this problem.”It is clear that unhealthy media content is linked to the appearance of antisocial behaviors. Parents and educators must be aware of the risks of excessive media exposure for children and the need to provide alternative modes of socialization.”

Works Cited

McCabe, Marita P., Kelly Butler, and Christina Watt. Media Influences on Attitudes and Perceptions Toward the Body Among Adult Men and Women. School of Psychology-Deakin University, Apr. 2007. Web. 12 Apr. 2010. .

Clemente, Miguel, Pablo Espinosa, and Miguel A. Vidal. The Media and Violent Behavior in Young People: Effects of the Media on Antisocial Aggressive Behavior in a Spanish Sample. University of La Coruna, 24 Sept. 2008. Web. 12 Apr. 2010. .