Media: Ads and Billboards

The media heavily influences the way people perceive themselves. For a Media Literacy project I am working on, my group decided to take pictures of billboards and advertisements that we are exposed to on an everyday basis. We separated it into the Ithaca area and the New York City area. Coming from New York City, there are a lot of advertisements and billboards. I guess I never really noticed it THAT much until I had to take pictures of them. There are ads on payphone booths and construction sites. I took pictures of ads from Verizon and Cingular and Gap. It was actually an interesting experience because I felt like a tourist in a place I go to so much. I also had to take pictures of sale signs on store windows and people actually stopped to see what I was taking pictures of. I never realized there were so many clothing ads. There's even a huge PSP near Broadway.