scholarly journals Mirror, Mirror, Help Me Like My Body

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara B. Oswalt ◽  
Tammy J. Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Promotion Strategy ◽  
Marketing Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual

Body image is a concern for many individuals but especially for women. Few body image interventions focus beyond the individual and attempt to reach a larger population. A media campaign was developed using the Social Marketing Model and implemented on a university campus to help women recognize conversations and ideas that reinforce negative body image concepts. Details about the development and implementation of the media campaign are reviewed. Follow-up assessment revealed that almost 60% (n = 194) of women surveyed saw the materials. Many responded favorably to the campaign’s impact. Buscards were viewed most frequently, indicating a potential promotion strategy for future health campaigns. Implications for future interventions and recommendations for practitioners are discussed.

The Gatekeeping of iNews.id about News on Worship in Mosques Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic

MEDIASI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Shania Shaufa ◽  
Thalitha Sacharissa Rosyidiani
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
System Level ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual

This article explains about online media iNews.id in implementing gatekeeping function. This study aims to find out how gatekeeping efforts iNews.id in the production process on the issue of preaching restrictions on worship in mosques during Ramadan in 2020. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the current media situation, especially in the midst of a crisis, encourages the public to become heavily dependent on media coverage. With a qualitative approach, researchers analyzed five levels of influence on the gatekeeping process in online media iNews.id. The results of this study show that factors that influence the way iNews.id in the production process of preaching restrictions on worship in mosques due to the Covid-19 pandemic are the individual level of media workers, the level of media routine, the organizational level, the extramedia level, and the social system level. The conclusions of this study state the most dominant levels is the organization level and the media routine level in the iNews.id.

scholarly journals Addiction and Recovery: Perceptions among Professionals in the Swedish Treatment System

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 51-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Samuelsson ◽  
Jan Blomqvist ◽  
Irja Christophs
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Treatment System ◽  
Individual Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Hard Drugs ◽  
Professional Treatment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Addiction Care

Aims The objective of the study was to explore perceptions of different addictions among Swedish addiction care personnel. Data A survey was conducted with 655 addiction care professionals in the social services, health care and criminal care in Stockholm County. Respondents were asked to rate the severity of nine addictions as societal problems, the individual risk to getting addicted, the possibilities for self-change and the perceived significance of professional treatment in finding a solution. Results The images of addiction proved to vary greatly according to its object. At one end of the spectrum were addictions to hard drugs, which were judged to be very dangerous to society, highly addictive and very hard to quit. At the other end of the spectrum were smoking and snuff use, which were seen more as bad habits than real addictions. Some consistent differences were detected between respondents from different parts of the treatment system. The most obvious was a somewhat greater belief in self-change among social services personnel, a greater overall change pessimism among professionals in the criminal care system and a somewhat higher risk perception and stronger emphasis on the necessity of treatment among medical staff. Conclusion Professionals' views in this area largely coincide with the official governing images displayed in the media, and with lay peoples' convictions.

scholarly journals Media and Information Technology in Ten Years’ Time: A Society of Control Both from Above and Below, and From Outside and Inside

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Becker
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Top Down ◽  
The Social ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Society Of Control

In the process of continual change from the hand axe to the factory and now to industrial production 4.0, technology has had, and still has, two basically invariable functions: control and rationalisation. Each of these two terms is to be understood in a very comprehensive sense, in technical, engineering, commercial, legal and also social terms. This tenet also applies to television and to information technology. In my lecture, the terms “above” and “below” stand for a model of social stratification; they stand for capital and labour. The terms “outside” and “inside” stand for the external conditions of the class struggle from “above” and “below”. The external conditions mean the social and the inside conditions mean the psychological environment. Both television and information technology rely on content and organisational forms that run from above to below (from top to bottom). Moreover, contrary to Gutenberg’s invention of moving letters, today innovations in the media and IT fields no longer run from the bottom up, but only from the top down. While television conditions the individual from outside, users of social media internalise that same conditioning as a liberation from constraints.

scholarly journals Regulating the Fast-Food Landscape: Canadian News Media Representation of the Healthy Menu Choices Act

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (24) ◽  
pp. 4939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elnaz Moghimi ◽  
Mary E Wiktorowicz
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Menu Choice ◽  
Fast Food Consumption ◽  
Term Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual

With the rapid rise of fast food consumption in Canada, Ontario was the first province to legislate menu labelling requirements via the enactment of the Healthy Menu Choice Act (HMCA). As the news media plays a significant role in policy debates and the agenda for policymakers and the public, the purpose of this mixed-methods study was to clarify the manner in which the news media portrayed the strengths and critiques of the Act, and its impact on members of the community, including consumers and stakeholders. Drawing on data from Canadian regional and national news outlets, the major findings highlight that, although the media reported that the HMCA was a positive step forward, this was tempered by critiques concerning the ineffectiveness of using caloric labelling as the sole measure of health, and its predicted low impact on changing consumption patterns on its own. Furthermore, the news media were found to focus accountability for healthier eating choices largely on the individual, with very little consideration of the role of the food industry or the social and structural determinants that affect food choice. A strong conflation of health, weight and calories was apparent, with little acknowledgement of the implications of menu choice for chronic illness. The analysis demonstrates that the complex factors associated with food choice were largely unrecognized by the media, including the limited extent to which social, cultural, political and corporate determinants of unhealthy choices were taken into account as the legislation was developed. Greater recognition of these factors by the media concerning the HMCA may evoke more meaningful and long-term change for health and food choices.

Firm but Shapely, Fit but Sexy, Strong but Thin: The Postmodern Aerobicizing Female Bodies

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirkko Markula
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Women's Relationships ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The Individual

This paper aims to reconstruct the cultural dialogue surrounding the female body image in aerobics. To do this I have used several methods: ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and media analysis. I found that the media ideal is a contradiction: firm but shapely, fit but sexy, strong but thin. Likewise, women’s relationships with the media image are contradictory: They struggle to obtain the ideal body, but they also find their battles ridiculous. I interpret my findings from a Foucaultian perspective to show how the discourse surrounding the female body image is part of a complex use of power over women in postmodern consumer society. In addition, I assume a feminist perspective that assigns an active role to the individual aerobicizers to question the power arrangement.

scholarly journals Pussy Riot’s humour and the social media: Self-irony, subversion, and solidarity

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Berenice Pahl
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Media Impact ◽  
Pussy Riot ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Aesthetic Principle ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Politically Active

This paper seeks to demonstrate that both the media impact and political success of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot rest on their use of new media, on the one hand, and on an aesthetic principle of humour, on the other, or, more specifically, on a kind of humour that is both self-reflexive and subversive. Pussy Riot operate through a style of guerrilla communication that re-signifies signs and symbols for their own purpose in a self-ironical, comical manner. I will indicate the contradictions and ambiguities of various interpretive frameworks – which not only create humour but are particularly motivating factors in the (personal) decision to become politically active. The speed with which one can communicate within social networks made it possible that infectious laughter about the absurdity of the events in Moscow was able to spread so rapidly. Reassurance and the community’s solidarity were closely connected to the fun and joy of the individual internet user.

scholarly journals Nilai-Nilai Spiritual Sufistik Qasidah Burdah dalam Meningkatkan Religiusitas

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Asep Solikin
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Human Form ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Strategy Pattern

In the perspective of the development of one's religiosity can be developed through touches the other side that can bring spiritual and inner shades religious person. It can be touched by some form. The forms that try to offer in this study is about Qasidah Burdah (QB) developed at boarding school and in some majlistaklim in public life can be categorized as an internalization of values in the media application using music as a medium. Researchers used a qualitative approach in this research to complete the study. Researchers believe using this approach because the problem in this study is very holistic, complex, dynamic and full of meaning that is not possible data on the social situation captured by quantitative research methods such as test instrument. Moreover, the authors intend to understand the social situation in depth, find the strategy pattern, hypotheses and theories associated with this research study. The content of the values of Sufism in Qasidah Burdah still have suitability (relevance) to the teachings of Islam in terms of both goals (for the human form in order to be a perfect human being (insan kamil) as a servant of God and as a vicegerent on earth) and material (faith, Sharia and morals). Therefore, Qasidah Burdah can be used as a reference or references in the individual maturation process, especially in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Senior Adults: Does Body Image Matter?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 883-884
Author(s):  
Keri Larsen ◽  
Myia Graves ◽  
Ashley Bowers ◽  
Valerie Saba ◽  
Lauren Himel
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Senior Adults ◽  
Comparison Theory ◽  
Moment Coefficient ◽  
Sociocultural Attitudes ◽  
Figure Rating Scale ◽  
The Social ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
The Media

Abstract Through the theoretical framework of the Social Comparison Theory, the current study will examine general attitudes and perceptions of body image in senior adults who are currently participating in organized recreational activities. Participants between the ages of 50 years of age and older participating in organized recreational programs in the Southeast will be administered the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Scale (SATAQ) to measure participants’ body image as influenced by general media, athletic and sport figures, as well as pressure to conform to the media ideal. The Figure Rating Scale will be administered, and is composed of nine drawings of bodies that progressively increase in size from very thin to overweight. Pearson product moment coefficient of correlation will be used to determine the association of scores between the SATAQ and Figure Rating Scale.

Food Trust, Ethics and Safety in Risk Society

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reidar Almas
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual

We are living in the age of mad cow disease. Through large scale bulletins in the media, we have learned about food scandals that threaten both our health and our environment. This has raised problems like: Who can we trust? And what type of food production can be regarded as ethically defensible in our day and age? And finally, how does the precautionary principle apply to the way we evaluate food and risk. The likelihood of becoming sick from the next meal has probably never been less than it is today. Yet at the same time, we know less than ever about the long-term consequences of today's food production. Ulrich Beck argued more than 10 years ago that we are moving from “industrial society” to “risk society”. While industrial society was structured through social classes, risk society is individualised. Beck's individualisation thesis is central to being able to understand how individuals handle risks through composing their own risk identity profile. Because the different experts “dump their contradictions and conflicts at the feet of the individual” (Beck 1992:137), he or she has to find biographical solutions to handle risks. Where to live, what to eat, where to take a vacation, what clothes to wear, with whom to mingle and to have sex with is up to the individual. And it is not like in simple modernity anymore, when the regulatory authorities took care of the risks and kept the foods you should not eat out of the country. The reflexive burden is placed upon the shoulders of the individual. So is also the case when it comes to genetic modified foods and debates around this. Even if these new foods are labelled, the consumer has to choose which experts to believe before to buy and eat. It is not the case any more that all experts agree and that the public food control institutions will tell you what to do. In the future there will be new food scandals in Europe that will threaten health and the environment. Such food scandals will be a central feature in what people experience as “risk society”. Expertise in the social sciences will gradually be given a new role as “experts on peoples’ concerns”.

Discourses on LGBT Asylum in the Uk

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaut Raboin
Keyword(s):  
Queer Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
The Way

Discourses on LGBT asylum in the UK analyses fifteen years of debate, activism and media narrative and examines the way asylum is conceptualized at the crossroads of nationhood, post colonialism and sexual citizenship, reshaping in the process forms of sexual belongings to the nation. Asylum has become a foremost site for the formulation and critique of LGBT human rights. This book intervenes in the ongoing discussion of homonationalism, sheds new light on the limitations of queer liberalism as a political strategy, and questions the prevailing modes of solidarity with queer migrants in the UK. This book employs the methods of Discourse Analysis to study a large corpus encompassing media narratives, policy documents, debates with activists and NGOs, and also counter discourses emerging from art practice. The study of these discourses illuminates the construction of the social problem of LGBT asylum. Doing so, it shows how our understanding of asylum is firmly rooted in the individual stories of migration that are circulated in the media. The book also critiques the exclusionary management of cases by the state, especially in the way the state manufactures the authenticity of queer refugees. Finally, it investigates the affective economy of asylum, assessing critically the role of sympathy and challenging the happy goals of queer liberalism. This book will be essential for researchers and students specializing in refugee studies and queer studies.

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