The Impact of Exposure to the Thin-Ideal Media Image on Women

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICOLE HAWKINS ◽  
P. SCOTT RICHARDS ◽  
H. MAC GRANLEY ◽  
DAVID M. STEIN
Keyword(s):  
Thin Ideal ◽  
Media Image ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Thin-Ideal Images and Affect: An Investigation Using Magazines and Minimizing Demand

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Vahedi ◽  
Stephen Charles Want
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Thin Ideal ◽  
Demand Characteristics ◽  
Fashion Magazines ◽  
Undergraduate Female ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Everyday Context ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Break Period

Women and girls generally experience slightly reduced satisfaction with their appearance following exposure to thin-ideal media images. Inconsistent findings have been obtained regarding the impact of such images on positive and negative affect. However, in experimental studies, researchers have typically exposed participants to a concentrated dose of such images, isolated from context, instead of showing them in an everyday context such as within a fashion magazine. This has implications for external validity because the context in which thin-ideal images are viewed may change their effects. Concentrated exposure also increases demand characteristics. The present study investigated the effect of thin-ideal images presented in magazines on viewers’ affect, while manipulating the level of demand characteristics. Undergraduate female students (N = 172) were assigned to three groups (Implied Demand, Minimized Demand, and Control), two of which were exposed to fashion magazines; the third group was exposed to control magazines containing no thin-ideal images. Demand characteristics were manipulated when the experimenter provided the magazines during a putative break period, and participants’ affect was assessed both pre- and post-exposure. Our results indicated that exposure to fashion magazines was no different from exposure to control magazines in the effects on participants’ affect.

scholarly journals Russia's Media Image in Chinese Internet Memes

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-55
Author(s):  
Zheng Qian ◽  
Galina Melnik
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Content ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Vladimir Putin ◽  
The Impact

The topic of the article is relevant due to the fact that, being fragments of Internet culture, Internet memes are created by users, combining their own ideas, behavior and performance in the Web 2.0 environment. The aim of the article is to identify Internet memes on Chinese information resources, depicting the image of Russia and its leader with the help of figurative and at the same time economical means, to determine the functions these memes perform, as well as the impact potential of memes. The objectives of the study include identifying the range of themes and issues for memes, their semantic content, tone, and means of expression. Тhe objectives also include the correlation of scientific approaches with the analysis of the phenomenon and the practical implementation of political memes, as well as showing the transformation of the media image of the country in different periods: from the USSR to the Russian Federation with the help of comparative analysis. The objectives also include identifying potential threats to the national identity of Russians. The examples were collected using the hashtags "Russia", "USSR" and "Putin" in the social network Sina Weibo and in the application Wechat, and also in the browser Baidu. The novelty of research is in the fact that the authors are not limited to the psycholinguistic tools of the study of Internet memes, but focus on the study of the structure of the created political images of Russia and on the functions they perform. The authors are interested in the creators of minimized texts, as well as in the ways memes spread. More than 100 memes became the basis for the study. Conclusions: a trend in the establishment of friendly relations between China and Russia has been identified. Memes depict generally positive experience of Russia and Vladimir Putin.

scholarly journals Children’s Drawing in the Context of the Visual Language of New Media. Research Report

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadeta Didkowska
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Visual Education ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe present time is a period of dynamic development of new media, which should be accompanied by a more profound reflection over their impact on human development. The research on the impact of new media on children seems to be important as children become increasingly exposed to the virtual world, at the same time exploring reality. The time and commitment with which they “absorb” media images is bound to take its toll on a child’s psyche, which manifests itself in the imaging. The article presents the research on drawing activity of children from 3 to 12 years old in the context of changes occurring in these activities brought about by the visual language of new media. The fact that this extensive research has been carried out over an interval of 10 years (in 2004 I carried out an analysis of 4180 drawings of children and youth aged 3 to 18 years, while in the study repeated in 2014 I examined 2134 drawings of children aged 3 to 12 years), makes it possible to compare the results of the two studies, and also to confront them with descriptions of children’s drawings found in the specialized literature. In this way, the obtained characteristics may be referred to the visual language used to construct the new media image. Qualitative and quantitative analyses, as well as a comparison of the results, have allowed not only changes in the children’s drawing activities to be determined, but also indicate the direction of these changes. For the research, it was also important to find arguments in favour of media education with reference to visual education and defined as training, that pertains to the entire contemporary iconosphere.

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