My future will be in journalism and media. I'm not quite sure if I want to do broadcast journalism or work for some sort of magazine or news organization doing reporting online. I would definitely like to do my work online, as most people will start getting almost all of their news from the internet as opposed to magazines or a newspaper.
I definitely think gender will be an issue in my line of work. The media has a lot of influence on how people look at themselves and how people think, and it is especially true of the role that women in society have and are represented. I feel that studying women's studies will help me to be more aware of how gender roles become developed and are exacerbated by the media.
The Body Image vs. Reality class is a class that I would very much be interested in taking. I think many women get their idea of what it means to be female from the media. Many times I look at people in a video or in a magazine and see how much smaller they are and think that I should become the same way. In reality, I have to realize, this person was probably photoshopped many times to look a certain way. Being in media, I must keep an idea of how images effect our ideas of femininity and masculinity.
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