My Research Focus: Teens, Ads, and Body Image

      My group, which consists of my classmates Brian, Angela, and myself, is working on a project for our communications 111 class. Part of our assignment is to create individual blogs to discuss our research topics. We are exploring this question: How do the ads teenagers are inundated with affect their self esteem and their body image? We are looking across all ad platforms, including television, internet, and magazines, and we are looking at both men and women. We believe this question is important because this current generation of teenagers is more exposed to advertising than ever before, and we want to understand the effect this exposure has on their lives. We will seek to answer this question by looking at and analyzing scholarly articles and other research that has been done on the subject.