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The Effect of Media on Adolescence Jack Foster
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This part of the Assignment examines the effect of how Digital and Print media represents Adolescence. I will be examining one particular Media Form of magazines and in particular the magazine Dolly.

**__Dolly__**
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This magazine is aimed at girls ages 12 - 16/17. It includes things like a 'Dolly doctor' which is where girls can go onto and ask 'Dolly' any question that is troubling them from boyfriends to school work. There is also Articles on different teen idols such as Miley Cyrus. The girls who read dolly read about fashion, beauty, tips for growing up, boys and your normal hollywood gossip.

As in many magazines there are myths which are presented about teenagers and realities and also how to deal with the changes teenagers are going through during Adolescence.


 * Myths Presented**

In this magazine there are a number of myths which are shown to us relating to teenage girls. One of these is "every girl needs/wants a boyfriend". Girls dont need to have a boyfriend but most of them do want one. Dolly has a whole section on guys and //"how to ask guys out?, does he like me?, who is hotter?".// This in some ways is kind of "forcing a girl into having/wanting a boyfriend in their teenage years" which of course isnt needed and is making the girls have a harder time dealing with the emotional and physical changes that occur duing puberty.

Other myths which this magazine presents are a section on their web site called "//Bikini styles for your shape".// Now this page is such a bad image thrown upon teenage girls as they are always wanting to "//have a better shape and,"I have a terrible body!"// These are pictures of girls in Bikinis which are skinny and in some cases too skinny which creates an image for the reader saying that they should look like that and they are fat. Many disorders which teenage girls go through during puberty are based on their body image. Some of these include anorexia which is when girls think they are fat and either don't eat or eat then go and purposely vomit their food up which is not healthy at all.


 * Realities**

Although there are a lot of myths which are presented in this magazine there are many realities too. These include: In the Beauty section of the website they talk about the common physical change of puburty: **//__PIMPLES!!__//** This is a reality that every girl and boy going through the changes of puberty are going to have pimples or breakouts. There are a lot of products which are advertised on the website and in the magazine which are meant to help your pimples but when they don't work there is the advice on your daily life which could be effecting the pimples. This is a good part of the magazine and is very helpful to girls growing up.