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Tag: the media

Appearance culture and disordered eating behaviour as a means of shaping the ideal body in adolescents

Western appearance culture promotes the importance of the body andappearance. An attractive, slim body ensures success and acceptance in society.Images of perfectly shaped bodies create dissatisfaction with one’s own bodyand encourage the desire to achieve an ideal appearance. Physical appearancehas become an important construct among young people and adolescents.The majority of them regard their appearance …

Media in Croatian Language Teaching

Media as integral parts of education technology implicate teaching modernization. Higher efficacy of teaching, social demands for increasing youths’ computer literacy, development of pupils’ competencies as well as diverse media facilities, significantly affect the use of media in primary schools. Apart from Media Education, the media are used within other teaching areas of Croatian. The …

The media influence on children’s physical inactivity

The sample of this research encloses 44 boys, aged 10 to 12. The children were interviewed and the offered answers were of closed type. In this research the frequency of weekly media consumption has been investigated including the media infl uence on children’s inactivity. The results have shown that that the majority of children have …

Terorrism and a liberal-democratic state

Terrorism is a phenomenon that has been present for many centuries. The fight against terrorism is as old as terrorism itself. In the new era it takes on a new dimension but still with no successful results. The reason for that can be found in the impossibility of forming a consensus on what terrorism is …