Article on exposure

Here is an interesting article on media exposure. The purpose of the study was to educate parents on the effects of both exposure of amount and content that their children are seeing. Here's the link:

Article on Media Exposure on children under the age of 2

"Balancing Your Media Diet"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533817/

Deep Thinking: Personal Opinion

How much are we actually exposed to media? Not just social media, but media in general. How many times do we check Facebook on our computers, then our phones, and some of us on our iPad's? I know personally I spend many hours a day listening to music, watching tv, and checking different social media outlets for updates. Too much of my life is filled with media. Except, I can't remember a time that it wasn't. I am in the generation where portable DVD players came into the picture. So many adults today are wanting to figure out ways to minimize media exposure. They say that we have too much media influence in our lives. In my own life, I find no problem with the amount of media. It's just a matter of how we utilize the media in our lives.

Media Exposure as America's Addiction

Author and researcher George Barna has discovered media exposure has become America's "most widespread and serious addiction".

http://www.georgebarna.com/2010/01/media-exposure-addiction/

Eating Disorders and the Role of the Media

A study done by Wendy Spettigue and Katherine Henderson with the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, researches the effects of media exposure on body image. One of the main points within the study shared, "the majority of the studies have demonstrated a direct relationship between media exposure and eating pathology, body dissatisfaction and negative affect," (Spettigue, 2004). The study exposes a sample of women to images of slender, ideal women in the media. The study goes on to share that women who are already vulnerable in their self-esteem possess a higher risk to be susceptible to lies from the media, and therefore, run a much higher risk of developing eating disorders.

To read more in depth, click the link below that takes you to the journal article:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533817/