Inquiry Project
By: Marco Leal 3/6/15 Literacy, period 9
How does the media affect the choices of teens?
How the media affects teens and young adults
Evidence and Elaboration
TV each day, you have a higher chance
of being obese”
This shows that teens choose to be lazy and
watch TV then to stay physically active
due to the media.
Teen health and the media

Evidence and Elaboration
substantially disordered eating
attitudes and behaviors.”
Teens who choose to be anorexic
or bulimic have a change in attitudes.

Evidence and Elaboration
images when they watch movies, surfing the
internet and playing video games in which brutality
is rewarded the result is desensitization to violence”
This means that teens who are exposed to violence
in the media cause them to think that violence is the
answer to any problem.
Synthesis
The media impacts the choices of teens greatly and negatively. The media causes teens to see violence as a problem solver, and unprotected sex as a common and good thing. The media also affects teens’ body image because when teens see people who are famous in movies or magazines they feel that that is the body that they must have in order to “belong”. Ads can also be a major cause of poor decision making for teens because teens buy products that they see many famous people wearing or using, which causes teens to want that product they feel is cool. Finally Test scores of teens and food diets are also an effect of teens choices due to the media influencing teens to not care about school and make them think that they will be more successful if they drop out and cause them to not even try in class. Also Teens are affected by the media in bad ways such as lowering their self-esteem and many teens eat tons of food to make them feel better but this causes them to gain weight and later feel even more bad about themselves.
Thoughts
I would like to find out how the media impacts the choices made by teens. I choose this question because I am very curious to know how a teens choice would change before and after they had learned about the media. I already know that the media changes the choices teens make when buying clothing. I can kinda connect to the topic because I often wear a certain clothing if I find someone I admire wearing it.
During my research about “How does the media impact the choices of teens” I discovered the many ways the media has made the decisions of teens change such as the clothing they wear, the people they talk to and the things that change their attitude. I had see the differences in teens choices after interacting with the media such as TV, Magazines, movies and music etc.
After all my research on how “The media impacts the choices of teens” I have learned many different ways on how the media has impacted the choices of teens from the clothing they wear to the way they act.
Work cited
2)How the media affects teens and young adults
3)Teen health and the media