We live in a world in which we are dangerously influenced by media images. To what do you agree with this statement?

Images. We live in a world surrounded by images, video, figures, photographs and illustration and, whether you like it or not, we are influenced and touched by them. Without images, televison and movies would not exist, even newspapers and tabloids could not be the same.
Since the advent of photograph, the amount of pictures has been increasing sharply: today, they are everywhere.
Most of the times, images are easy to 'read' and pervious because their immediacy and simplicity. For example, J.Francis David (2002), a media education specialist, says that "Images are so compelling, seductive, convincing and absorbing that we cannot not watch them. They give us pleasure, working best when they are emotionally saturated".
Besides lots of great images, which give us nice sensations, good feeling and percepts, there are others that turn out to be absolutely negative for the viewers' eye, such as violence, crimes, alcohol weapons, drug and more. Other kind of images may be deceptives, illusories and devious, which trick people, making their mind confused.
Firstly, this essay will examine just the negative sides of the media images, how they work in our brain and how that is influenced dangerously by them over all. It will see, also, the huge power of images into the advertising world and how publicity conditions the life of people. A further sight will be given to find out some criteria helping to analyse the contents in depht in order to pick only the right message and get rid of superficiality.
I quite agree with the topic: we live in a world where the media images are our culture and, if they are dangerous or badly interpreted, people are ready to emulate them. As the proverb says: 'All that glitter is not gold!'

Outlines:

• Introduction to the world of images.
• Paragraph 1: negative aspects and influence of images.
• Paragraph 2: How advertising images can influence people's life.
• Paragraph 3: Analysis of the contents: chosing only the right messages from images.
• Conclusion: media literacy could be the solution to dispose of the bad sides.

Seminar 1

Here we go again!
Today there has been seminar about media literacy. Other 4 people and I have discussed over television viewing habits in our countries, television images and the future for television and television viewers.
I reckon my self-study of researches, lectures and listenings has been profitable in the today's seminar. We have started to speak one after the other in the beginning of our conversation: I have talked when was my turn and listened carefully the others opinion, giving support to the person I was agreeing with and motiving my objections for issues I was desagreeing with. I have tryied to explain my opinions as clear as possible, trying to use the right english pronuciation. The crucial thing I blame on me is my fluency and my language ease: This is not a problem related to the lack of words but just to the practice itself.
I think my group and I have gone on very well into our conversation, touching most of the points, moving towards all the topic.
In my opinion, that kind of experiences are very constructive and useful; it can "taste" how the work has been done altogheter, in order to fill the gaps.