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The media represent things in a particular way. They portray body image and shape as the most important aspect of a person and more or less pushing aside personality. They give a stereotypical view, women with large breasts, skinny, long hair, lots of make up and tanned. Men with abs, six packs and big muscles. This effects many people because they aren't the 'ideal body type' and they feel embarrassed, dissapointed and ungrateful. Also the representation of having stylish and cool clothes is seen as something so important when at times it isn't. The media uses techniques to lure people in, they make out that sex appeal is more important than personality and the majority of photos are photoshopped, edited and made look differently. The media show women as pleasure for men and show men as superior. This is very sexist and an unequal view on gender.=====

The negative effects of Media representation of adolescence include:

 * People will want to be like the stereotypical body type or feel bad about what they look like, it can greatly influence how they feel about themselves and their self esteem
 * Media make women look inferior and like men's pleasure toys
 * The media hype and exaggerate things about certain people in particular celebrities
 * They influence teen's fashion and in some ways destroy their unique identity by setting standards, whats in with the clothing and whats cool and whats not
 * Media shows that looks and body are more important than personality
 * The media tend to make alcohol, drugs, violence, smoking and unprotected sex good, they pretty much glorify it
 * The media literally tells people what to do and has such a large influence on people which can be bad


 * __Positive Effects of Media Representation Of Adolescence__**

These are some of the positive effects of Media representation of adolescence although when you think about it there are not very many:
 * Media keeps people technologically advanced and with the times