A. Why did I choose this line of inquiry?
· I was interested to see different perspectives.
· I wanted personal as well as professional opinions
· I was interested in the studies conducted and statistics (for example: the AAP study, and the statistics given from Teen Health and the Media)
· I had an experience in high school with a group of girls becoming anorexic from seeing the models on television
B. What was my initial interest?
· I wondered why the media portrays teens as being so promiscuous, violent, substance abusers and more.
· I wanted to know where people got this information- from movies? T.V. shows? Maybe the movies and television shows made kids act a certain way therefore feeding into the media and their view of teenagers these days.
C. Why did I see this as important?
· Not all kids drink on Friday and Saturday nights; not all teenagers engage in sexual behavior with multiple people; not all are aggressive; not every kid in middle school, high school or college smoke weed or abuse any other drug.
· The media takes something that one kid or maybe a group of kids did and blows it way out of proportion and then proceeds to generalize, therefore adults begin to believe that all teens will act in these ways.
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