Pink Paris
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Some of you may have seen a segment on Campbell live this week about Paris Hilton. This segment reminded me of one of the lectures we had earlier in the semester about popular music stars, such as ‘the pussycat dolls’ and their influence on young girls. It dawned on me whilst watching Paris Hilton being worshipped by young Australian girls, that so called, ‘female celebrities’ are nothing but an image that media manipulates into our ‘everyday lives’. As we read magazines, and interpret the by-products of media induced virtual concepts, we are but producing schemas of what ‘celebrities’ are and what we are in comparison to them. In regards to the younger Australian girls on Campbell live, they made statements such as “I want to be like Paris because she is famous for being famous”, maybe we too to some extent want to be famous, isn’t that something that we have all pondered at least once in our lifetime. But, young girls who are still learning about the world are more susceptible to such notions, as they are yet to discover what the want in life, as well as who they are as a person. The media shapes some girls lives dramatically through celebrities such as Paris Hilton. The website www.parishiltonzone.com is jam packed with everything that is Paris. The bright pink aesthetics and flirtatious poses of Paris herself are what I call sickening and give young girls the wrong message. Even though many of us feel like this, it is hard to change Media’s portrayal of such images and ideas. Maybe media should take time out of this and present decent role models in society.
Some of you may have seen a segment on Campbell live this week about Paris Hilton. This segment reminded me of one of the lectures we had earlier in the semester about popular music stars, such as ‘the pussycat dolls’ and their influence on young girls. It dawned on me whilst watching Paris Hilton being worshipped by young Australian girls, that so called, ‘female celebrities’ are nothing but an image that media manipulates into our ‘everyday lives’. As we read magazines, and interpret the by-products of media induced virtual concepts, we are but producing schemas of what ‘celebrities’ are and what we are in comparison to them. In regards to the younger Australian girls on Campbell live, they made statements such as “I want to be like Paris because she is famous for being famous”, maybe we too to some extent want to be famous, isn’t that something that we have all pondered at least once in our lifetime. But, young girls who are still learning about the world are more susceptible to such notions, as they are yet to discover what the want in life, as well as who they are as a person. The media shapes some girls lives dramatically through celebrities such as Paris Hilton. The website www.parishiltonzone.com is jam packed with everything that is Paris. The bright pink aesthetics and flirtatious poses of Paris herself are what I call sickening and give young girls the wrong message. Even though many of us feel like this, it is hard to change Media’s portrayal of such images and ideas. Maybe media should take time out of this and present decent role models in society.
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