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Chp 25 1. How did you feel about violence in the news when you were younger? What about now? Is there a difference between violence there (the news) and in movies or tv? 2. Do you think some of the violence is added or incorporated so that companies can keep their entire audience interested? 3. How did you feel about violence in the news when you were younger? What about now? Is there a difference between violence there (the news) and in movies or tv? 4. Do you think some of the violence is added or incorporated so that companies can keep their entire audience interested?

Chp 26 In this chapter, Peter talks about the easy accessibility to sexual media content to adolescents. He discusses how this accessibility may affect adolescents in their sexual development. He mentions media like television, magazines, movies, and pornographic content. 1. How do you think easy access to internet sexual media content, whether it be porn or any other type of medium like sexually explicit music, has affected adolescents in their sexual development, beliefs, or expectations? Peter also mentions how media can be a source of sexual knowledge for adolescents. Actually, he says that sexual media content (SMC) “has outperformed parents and schools as a source for sexual information” (217). 2) Are you surprised about this? Do you think that parents and schools do a sufficient job in sexual education? What do you think needs to change? Chp 27 1. The chapter reports that studies have shown young girls have a significant mediadisorder relationship, and boys do not. Why do you think this is true? Is it due to an excess in more feminized media, or more social peer pressure to be thin? 2. The chapter also discusses that the media portrayed thin ideal can be found on print, screen and Internet media platforms. Which do you think is more influential? Is there a difference between seeing an image in a magazine versus on Instagram? Does it matter if the people in the images are your friends or models?

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1) Bond, Richards, and Calvert claim that there is not enough information/empirical data to gauge the impact that media have on childhood obesity. Given the information they do provide (on food advertisements directed at children, on overeating while consuming media, etc.) how much of a relationship do you believe media have with obesity? 2) Bond, Richards, and Calvert offer a variety of solutions to the obesity problem, such as educating children on the purpose of advertisements, and restricting advertisements from using cartoon characters to appeal to children. What do you believe is the best way to resolve the obesity issue (in the realm of media)?

Chp 29 1) Dina L. G. Borzekowski concludes chapter 29 with recommendations on how the media can be altered to reduce the impact of its messages about smoking, drinking and the use of drugs. The strategies she offers are “changing the messages”, the use of “counter ads” and the use of “regulations”. Which strategy, if any, would you consider to be the most effective and why? Is there really a way to completely eradicate media’s positive message on the use of tobacco and alcohol? 2) According to a study by Farrelly et al. mentioned in the chapter, children and teens who have been greater exposed to a Florida anti smoking campaign “Truth”, had higher smoking prevalence rates. Why do you think that is? Is it a problem how some campaigns try to get their point across? 3) Do you think that the media acting as a "super peer” (Borzekowski) is more influential than our actual peers and family members?...