Scapbook Self-Evaluation # 4

The majority of my information was found on the internet. They are all found on oublished news articles. The research method that worked best for me was going to the website http://www.google.com/ and typing in "media; teen/adult life," or along those lines. The first couple of links are exactly what I am looking for. They are relevant to my topic and they are recent. I didn't fully utilize the texts that are around me. Looking back now, I think that I could have looked for more articles on how the media has helped society, rather than just on how it it has negativley affected us.

Scrapbook Self-Evalutation # 3

The media greatly affects my topic. It fuels the need of human kind to further their popularity. It uses models, fashion, movies, and sex to alter a person's idea of what is popular, and what is not. The media hugely impacts public opinion, as well as perception. Once the perception of something is changed, the opinion of the person may change. If it does, then the people whose opinion of things has changeed will look at something in a new light, as shown in my artifacts. In Artifact Two, I found out that people can be really hostile to one another, even when they are nine years old.

"'One woman I know, her daughter went to school on the first day of Grade 4 and a group of girls walked up to her and said things like ''''we're the clothing police and we don't like the shirt you are wearing,'''' she says."'

I was really surprised that anyone would say this, and on the first day of school too. That girl's self-esteem must have been on a real low. Fashion isn't everything. I had never thought that children could be so mean at such a young age. I feel as though the media does ot really understand what it is they are doing.