up and the other the experimental group. Both groups will keep a journal of how their perceptions of themselves chance over the course of the experiment. There will also be group discussions on how we view our bodies with both groups separately. The group discussions will focus on what the adolescents feel their bodies are the actual self and what they ought to look like with very little influence from the media.The control group will be given television shows to watch like, Baywatch and magazines like, Cosmopolitan and GQ to read this, will allow me to as they watch and read measure the discrepancies of their ideal self vs. their actual self. The discussions in this group will also include a hidden agenda bringing up talk of media influences with regards to the ought self and the ideal self." In closing the study will end in a comparison of the data from both the experimental and control group. To measure how much the media can alter the perceptions of an adolescent I'll use the journals, group discussions, the observations made in the change in the attitudes of the adolescents on their bodies, and the previous questionnaires to detect who is more susceptible to develop an eating disorder.Data:The experimental group's perceptions of their bodies changed significantly whereas, the subjects within the control group showed little or no change in their perception of their bodies. The groups exposed to all the media's tactics to create the idealistic body image using male and female models with slim figures were more prone to developing eating disorders. For example, take this journal entry from the experimental group subject writes, "There are only fourteen weeks till summer, wow. What will I do but starve myself to get into a bathing suit and look like those girls modeling them in Cosmopolitan's summer time is here summer countdown?" another subject writes, "I can't believe how men are so in shape on that show. If only I could be ...
