...India Study, 2011 published by Trust Research Advisory ranked Cadbury in the top 100 most trusted brands list (Trustadvisory.info). It is one of the best-managed companies and best workplaces in India, and a highly trusted and respected brand. 1.The background of crisis. On October 3rd 2003, just a month before Diwali, two bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate were found infested at a shop in Mumbai. Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) get complaint from consumer, who seized the chocolate stocks manufactured at Cadbury’s Pune plant. An inquiry was setup by the FDA to investigate into the infestation complaints, to determine whether this was a stray incident or is it one to add to the numbers. There is a clear message in every media, which is there were worm inside Cadbury chocolates and it became a major subject of discussion for the next ten days. There have 1000 newspaper articles and 120 TV news reported in 10 languages. Consumers started to against Cadbury and there is a symbol of disrepute and blame within these few days. Cadbury made a statement and announced, “the hygienic conditions in the factory are more than satisfactory; it is impossible for infestation to occur during the manufacturing process” and poor storage at the retailers was the most likely cause of the reported case of worms. However, FDA said defective packaging is the reason of worms got into the chocolate at the storage level. That was followed by allegations and counter-allegations between Cadbury...
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...The Media and Self – Esteem When you hear the word media and self – esteem, what comes in your mind? Maybe some of you think that media are the technologies and reporters, and self – esteem is being confident to yourself and abilities. But then, what are their relationships? Our world is full of media; it reaches people to communicate widely in our society. In today’s life, all of us grow in a society where people can’t avoid the media. Even our parents, our Lolo and Lola, our Tita and Tito, who are not expose to this sort of influences, and not susceptible to the impact that social media may have on individuals. In the past few years, some speculations to as of what those impacts might be are underway. Almost everyone asked this question: is the media killing your self – esteem? One interesting fact that I research about social media says that girls spend more time using the internet than the boys do. In our society, is it already common for the other girls to have a bad issue about their self than the boys? And could this internet usage be pushing that even further? Maybe there is an impact because the media somehow forces us to transform or change our perceptions of ourselves. And most of all, we constantly comparing others to an ideal that probably isn’t very realistic like fairytale. In another way, our self – esteem also possible to be affected in social media sites. For example, in Facebook, it is the most used of all other sites with almost 750 million likes, shares...
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...on Digital Media and Self-Esteem Name Institution Course Date Introduction The study was about researching and analyzing whether the digital world boosts self-esteem. The research helps the effect of social media and the technological advancements that have occurred in the recent past on an individual’s personality and self-esteem. The study has incorporated digital ethnography and social networking analysis to critically examine and analyze the focus groups at hand. Social networking sites are an important aspect in the digital world and involve increased networking of existing and compound relations which goes beyond close friends. It is a conglomerate friendship and relations of friends of friends. Technology has made vast and significant changes in social dynamics. It tends to both affect people in the society by either making them comfortable and uncomfortable thus affecting their self-esteem (Meadows, 2003, P. 23). The process of transferring human contact into the world through creating complete, genuine and reliable social inter-connections seems to affect one’s self-esteem. These social groups can be sampled and used as focus groups which can be used as an analysis of behavior for the entire society as a whole. The study is important in addressing the behaviors of participants in a focus group relevant to the overall effect of the digital world relevant to the self-esteem of individuals in the society. The Existing Literature Review Technology, social networking...
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...Images of Beauty Dana Alkhandak #106621937, Group D Psychology 10 October 2, 2013 Rough Draft #1 Adolescence is a time of both delicate concern about social acceptance as well as self-conscious obsession with self-image and identity. Becoming more aware of society's selective standards, many youngsters look to the media for guiding on the "ideal" way to look and act. Teenagers have more access to images from the media that sponsor a growing acceptance of makeup, fragrances and unnatural beauty, their self-esteems becomes dependent on an unnatural and constructed thought of beauty. The images promoted and portrayed in the media, can be harmful and have dangerous impacts on the lives' of many individuals. The images revealed and published by the media harmful effects begin the minute they start being used for entertainment and sale purposes; however, it doesn't stop there, the images can also be demeaning the self-esteems of individuals as well as creating unhealthy habits that teenagers find the need to follow. Everyday more ads are being released whether it's for a newly engineered face wash or the season's latest sweater. Quickly as soon as the item is advertised, teenagers run to the nearest shopping malls to get their hands on the "Oh, So GREAT" invention, without realizing the price worth of the item. Therefore, now the happy teen picks out the item and gets to the checkout stand, later to discover that the item is $150. At that point, the teen has two...
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...Is social media to blame for the rise in narcissism? To answer that you must first understand the difference between narcissism and self-esteem. Narcissists feel superior to others, believe that they are entitled to privileges, and crave admiration. They think the world revolves around them and it would be a much better place if it revolved around them. And when it doesn't they lash out aggressively. People with high self-esteem, by contrast, feel satisfied with themselves as a person, but don't see themselves as better than others. Parents intuitively believe that high self-esteem is the key to success, health, and well-being. They try to raise self-esteem by telling children they are unique and extraordinary. We as parents should make our...
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...Does social media shape our identities? Some people believe that social media brings many positive to our lives. While others believe it is full of negativity. Social media impacts our identities by influencing internal and external forces within ourselves and the environment, self-esteem, and causes many psychological concerns. Our self-identities are how we view ourselves as individuals. According to Jim Taylor a professor at the University of San Francisco, self-identity is gained in two ways. One-way identity is gained is by evaluating our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors based on experiences, current needs, and future goals (Taylor 2011). Second, self-identity can be gained by observing the environment that surrounds...
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...Teenagers are the most profuse users of social media. 21st century teens have grown up with a large component of their culture influenced by social media regardless of their surrounding. “ Social media can make teens more informed citizens of the country. An example is for intellectual benefits – children can develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills by playing computer games designed to develop these skills, or they can develop ethical thinking by comparing family values with values in fiction or documentaries”.(Homayoun) This is important because by hearing from all parties about the problems the world or what the country is facing, they’ll learn how to form their own opinions at an early age. This is more than most members of previous generations can say for themselves.(Chell)Information is more democratic and available than ever before, yet the dangers associated to it are very real. Some adolescents have been...
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...Social Networks M’Tisha Garnett INF 103 Computer Literacy Prof. Christopher Newcomb December 15, 20113 Social Networks Social Networks such as Myspace have been around for several years, but it limited the amount of information one could display to the world. But when Facebook surfaced in 2007 it trampled the Myspace site and brought about a different way for people to communicate. People were able to express themselves to the world, post pictures, and videos. It became bigger than the original reason for its creation which was for college students to reconnect and talk about homework, etc. Now we have sites like Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn that allow people to express themselves through words, pictures, or for business connections. But there is also a negative side of social networking, such as bullying, jail time for posting illegal activity, robberies, and possible job disqualification due to a post. The Influence of Social Networking Sites The media often portrays social networkers as social misfits more interested in chatting with virtual friends than making real ones. There also have been sensational stories about teens committing suicide as a result of "cyberbullying" taking place on social network. According to Bowles (2013). People tend to expose more personal or opinionated information on social media sites then what they should not aware of the consequences that could follow. But good can also come from using these sites, such as finding family...
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...Rough Draft #1 Thesis: Most people use Social media to promote highlight moments of their lives and to stay connected, but could this have a negative affect? People can be whoever they want on social media and if we compare ourselves to what we read/see we may feel like we are not good enough. Social media hurts our self esteem and leaves us overall unhappy because of constant comparison, a false sense of connection and need for confirmation from peers. Body 1: One way social media hurts people's self esteem is because people are constantly comparing themselves to what people post. In the book “The Shallows” psychotherapist Michael Hausauer notes “teens and other adults have a terrific interest in knowing what’s going on in the lives of their...
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...6/7/15 “Social Media’s Catalytic Effects on Mental Distress” In today’s world, one must avoid social media to avoid a heightened risk of mental stress and disorders. Today’s Internet is no longer a necessity to land connections with potential clients or employers. It is no longer just the key to heightened understanding of earthly functions; not just the door to enhancing quality of life and life’s overall level of convenience. Today, the Internet is key to keeping interpersonal relationships alive. The visibility of personal life activity is more than one wants to see; the Internet is now the racetrack on which humans today practice natural selection and evolve: Natural selection entails surviving mental distress, now due to dawn of digital, non face to face communication. Avoiding social media is necessary for optimum mental health because humans crave face-to-face interaction. Today’s information age includes technologies that make real time, distanced communication possible, diminishing the need for face-to-face communication and thus diminishing individual satisfaction of relationships. “Psychological Aspects of Social Media and Mental Well-Being” identifies the correlation between time used on social media and negative effects on cognitive function. “Individuals who spent more time on social media sites were likely to have lower self-esteem who did not believe their friendships were of great quality or value on social media sites were also...
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...Social Networking Jessica Ward INF 103 Computer Literacy Berthenia Williams October 12, 2015 Social Networking When I think about social media, Facebook and Twitter come to my mind. Everywhere you go, someone is talking about updating their status or sending out a tweet. Social networking is a great way to keep in contact with long lost family and friends. In my opinion, social networking sites are beneficial because on one hand, it helps you stay in contact with family and friends, but it also helps to promote local businesses. Some ways I think Facebook can be very detrimental. In today's world, social media causes cyber bullying which in turn causes teens to take their own life. Social media has also been known to cause divorces as well as lifetime friendships ending, as well as people getting murdered. What is Facebook? Facebook is a social media site where you can update your status, share photos, locate old friends, and join groups where other people share the same interests. (Vander Veer, 2008). Facebook has been around since 2004. Facebook is not 100% private. Posts are visible to your friends list, so people need to be aware of what is posted. There really isn't a such thing as privacy in Facebook land. Facebook has competitors. The biggest one is Google, whose social networking site is called Google+. Google+ is similar to Facebook, but a huge difference is on Google+, you are more at risk to meet people in other countries than yours.(Bowles, 2013)...
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...The media have brainwashed our minds, with the same body type, causing us to lose confidence in ourselves. These actors and actresses displayed, show bodies which are not realistic of the general population. Self-harm has increased over the years due to body distortion, diagnoses such as depression, suicide, anorexia, substance abuse, and eating disorders...
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...Negative and Positive Effects of Facebook Use Facebook has taken the world by storm with more than 500 million users. The use of Facebook has many implications on self-esteem and personal relationships both positive and negative. 93% of college students have a Facebook account and spend on average 47 minutes a day on Facebook. My research on this topic is to inform the general user of the risks and rewards of Facebook. I believe this research is important as a Facebook user myself to know what potential risks I am taking and what potential rewards I can expect. The research question was what is Facebook and what are the positive and negative ramifications on self-esteem and social relationships as a result of using Facebook. My research is based on the literature review of scholarly articles. This research paper will show that Facebook use has many positive and negative effects on self-esteem and personal relationships. Review of the Literature Definition of Facebook Facebook as defined by Tokunaga (2011) is a social networking site (SNS) created in 2004. Facebook since its origination has grown have the largest number of users with more than 500 million active users. 30% of Facebook users are within the age 18-25 demographic. Social networking sites are web-based services that allow people to create a public or semi-public profile within a limited system, formulate a list of other user with whom they share a connection and view and navigate their list...
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...show that there are more cases of female obesity than male. Obesity is commonly associated with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, hypertension, and mortality. (Corbin & Welk, 1970) For women, obesity implies more risk in developing complications due to maternity. Before, it was only a term for the condition of a person who suffered from exposure to unhealthy living that created excess weight. (Fahey, Insel & Roth, 2011) An article in the Journal of Obesity revealed that many obese people suffer from depression and low self-appreciation. In the study, it was observed that obese people tend to have a lower self-esteem compared to their thinner counterpart. In accordance to this, researchers have already conducted experiments to examine the relationship between obesity and psychological problems such as poor self-esteem. In all cases of obesity, people have larger body size. Therefore, obesity makes them more conscious about their body image to avoid social...
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...Social Media Affects Mental Health * Social media can affect many parts of the mental health. One part is self-perception- how we think about ourselves. The pressures that people put on themselves to get approval from other are huge. It can make people depressed when they don’t get all the likes. The pressures of taking the right picture, with the right filter, wearing the right outfit, at the right place, with the right people is unnecessary pressure. * Smiling depression is a term used to describe people who are depressed but do not appear to be. It is a depression that’s becoming more and more common these days. 6.7 percent of the population over the age of 18 suffer from it. Social media can be one of the major causes of this depression. People always want to seem happy to everyone. They care so much about their self-image they lost care on how they are really feeling. We all get that sadness, that pain when we see on Snapchat or other social Medias our friends having fun without us. We want to appear to be happy and appear to be doing other things but we are truly sad inside. Social media covers up your original self. The ideal self is the self we aspire to be. Carl Rogers’s theory of personality is that everyone has an idea of whom and what they want to be. With social media we can create the person that we want to be and how we want to be seen as. The problem with this is that once the cyber “you” that you have created is gone you’re left with the original you...
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