The Correlational Study of the Influence of Mass Media on One’s Self-Satisfaction

As the world has globalized-involving changes in cultures, values, and popularities, people's values have been changing all the time. In recent years, it is undeniable that people have given importance to their "beauty" and "how people judge their looks," which results in the change in beauty standards. One major factor contributing to the change in people's attitudes toward self-satisfaction is "mass media." Nonetheless, there is a lack of evidence to support such a claim to depict between mass media and self-satisfaction. Therefore, this study aims to explore those relationships between the two subjects. A survey using 11 questionnaires for females and 12 questionnaires for males based on a 5-point Likert scale with 165 participants was carried out. The findings of this study showed that mass media influenced self-satisfaction. Furthermore, the result showed that mass media and self-satisfaction have a positive correlation. This paper also suggests the readers enhance a positive mindset on their body image to gain more self-worth. This information obtained from the survey also indicates that the readers need to get rid of their negative attitude on their body image or outer appearance in order to be able to feel worthy of self-love and give less importance to their inner beauty or mental health and focus on their appearance. Keywords: beauty standard, mass media, self-satisfaction, positive mindset and body image.

The Depiction of Asian Tattoos in Popular Culture and the Mainstream media.

Tattoos add a perceived aesthetic value to the body of the wearer. In instances where tattoos are worn – by choice – to enhance the outer appearance of the wearer, they are a vivid expression of artistic freedom, individualism and even a mark of belonging. For the same reasons that their appearance becomes conspicuous, tattoo wearers are vulnerable to receive negative first impressions. Tattoos are broadly divided into three types: those that are of tribal origins, those that are linked with criminal communities, and those that are forcefully given to mark prisoners or given as punishment. In the main stream media, the tattoos shown are often worn by antagonists or characters of a criminal nature. Recognizable Asian tattoos range from Japanese Horimono to Borneo tribal tattoos. A well-known example of tribal tattoo are the ones worn by Borneo Ibans. This paper will explain the importance of semiotics studies by looking at the cultural value of a particular tribal tattoo. The bunga terung is an Iban tattoo that a man will get when he goes for bejalai, a journey comparable to a walkabout. The theory of semiotics and representation by Charles Sanders Peirce will cover the knowledge process towards understanding the bunga terung. This research will enable us to differentiate between a tattoo that represents a particular indigenous community and a tattoo that represents a criminal one. Keywords: Bunga Terung, Gang Tattoo, Tribal Tattoo, Cultural Identity, Iban Tattoo.

COSMETOTEXTILES AND EVALUATION OF THEIR PERFORMANCE

Cosmetotextiles are textile products that release a cosmetic substance or formulation in the application area for cosmetic purposes. Cosmetic substances or formulations loaded carriers such as micro or nano-sized microcapsules, microsphere, cyclodextrin, liposome, solid lipid nanoparticles, are attached or processed on textile to prepare cosmetotextiles. As a textile material woven fabric, knitted fabric and non-woven fabrics are used for cosmetotextiles, and within this scope, relevant cosmetic and textile standards and regulations are taken into account in the performance evaluation of products, especially for effectiveness and safety. Important standards for cosmetotextiles include PD CEN/TR 15917:2009, ISO 3175-1, ISO 3758, ISO 6330 and ISO 22716. PD CEN/TR 15917:2009 includes the tests for cosmetic claim substation such as skin moisturizing, body firming, assessment of outer appearance of cellulite etc. The PD CEN/TR 15917:2009 standard specifies the general properties, claimed effects, safety assessment and labeling of slimming, moisturizing and regenerating preparations that fall into the cosmetotextile class. Peer Review History: Received: 13 May 2021; Revised: 19 June; Accepted: 29 June, Available online: 15 July 2021 Academic Editor: Dr. Asia Selman Abdullah, Al-Razi university, Department of Pharmacy, Yemen, [email protected] UJPR follows the most transparent and toughest ‘Advanced OPEN peer review’ system. The identity of the authors and, reviewers will be known to each other. This transparent process will help to eradicate any possible malicious/purposeful interference by any person (publishing staff, reviewer, editor, author, etc) during peer review. As a result of this unique system, all reviewers will get their due recognition and respect, once their names are published in the papers. We expect that, by publishing peer review reports with published papers, will be helpful to many authors for drafting their article according to the specifications. Auhors will remove any error of their article and they will improve their article(s) according to the previous reports displayed with published article(s). The main purpose of it is ‘to improve the quality of a candidate manuscript’. Our reviewers check the ‘strength and weakness of a manuscript honestly’. There will increase in the perfection, and transparency. Received file: Reviewer's Comments: Average Peer review marks at initial stage: 6.0/10 Average Peer review marks at publication stage: 7.5/10 Reviewer(s) detail: Dr. George Zhu, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, [email protected] Dr. Mohamed Salama, Modern University for Technology & Information, Egypt, [email protected]

Penerapan Tema Simbolis pada Bentuk Rancangan Museum dan Pusat Dokumentasi Perfilman Nusantara di Surabaya

Films in Indonesia have a long history, and are even now considered an era of national film revival, which is marked by the condition of films experiencing an ever-increasing number of production. Due to the lack of facilities available specifically for archipelago film archives in Indonesia, this background is the reason for the need to build a Museum and Archipelago Film Documentation Center located in Surabaya, where according to the Indonesian Film Agency the island of Java is the region that dominates the largest number of film viewers in Indonesia. The method used in this research is a qualitative method with descriptive research type by making observations, field studies and literature. The land chosen for the designer is located on Jalan Simpang Dukuh, Suarabaya City with an area of 0.76 hectares with a relatively flat site. The use of a symbolic theme with a representative concept was chosen so that the building being designed does not only pay attention to its function. In addition to attracting visitors with the use of symbols in the form of building design, it is hoped that it will be able to appear to show the philosophy and functions that are in it which are used as a means of education, research and entertainment just by looking at the outer appearance of a building.Keywords: Film, Museum, Symbolic. Abstrak. Perfilman di Indonesia memiliki sejarah yang cukup panjang, bahkan sampai saat ini dianggap sebagai era kebangkitan perfilman nasional yang ditandai dengan kondisi perfilman yang mengalami pertumbuhan jumlah produksi yang terus meningkat. Karena minimnya fasilitas yang tersedia khusus arsip film Nusantara di Indonesia, dengan latar belakang tersebut menjadi alasan perlu dibangunnya sebuah Museum dan Pusat Dokumentasi Perfilman Nusantara yang terletak di Surabaya, dimana menurut Badan Perfilman Indonesia pulau Jawa merupakan wilayah yang mendominasi jumlah penonton film terbanyak di Indonesia. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah metode kualitatif dengan jenis penelitian deskriptif dengan melakukan observasi, studi lapangan dan literatur. Penggunaan tema simbolis dengan konsep representatif dipilih agar bangunan yang didesain tidak hanya memperhatikan fungsinya. Selain untuk menarik pengunjung dengan penggunaan simbolieme pada bentuk desain bangunan diharapkan mampu tampil menunjukkan filosofi dan fungsi yang ada didalamnya yang tidak lain digunakan sebagai sarana edukasi, penelitian maupun hiburan hanya dengan melihat tampilan luar dari suatu bangunan.Kata Kunci: Film, Museum, Simbolis.

William Forsythe

William Forsythe questions the nature of dance and ways of thinking about choreography. Searching to bring ballet’s past into a new, and sometimes strange, present, he scrutinizes classically ordered systems. He initiates processes of deconstruction that enable the body to move into multiple kinespheres, linking his findings to improvisation strategies that change the bodily architecture. Thus distinctions blur between the dance’s outer appearance and the dancers’ inner awareness. In this chapter, Forsythe’s direction of the Ballett Frankfurt, and before that as a choreographer with the Stuttgart Ballet, is explored. The concept of the Forsythescape is introduced as a metaphor for a choreographic landscape that draws on different styles, identities, and social/cultural approaches. Focus turns to Artifact and Eidos:Telos, two long works of labyrinthine complexity. They change entrenched habits of looking at dance—and help to explain why the American Forsythe is renowned across the globe.

“I want to look as if I am my child’s big sister”: Self-satisfaction and the yummy mummy in Taiwan

This paper explores the trend of stay-fit maternity in Taiwan and extends the feminist analysis of the yummy mummy under neoliberalism to a non-Western context. Drawing insight from Foucault’s critique of the theory of human capital and his emphasis on “psychic return,” it examines a process of continuous interaction between outer appearance and the inner world of these Taiwanese women during and after pregnancy. Thus, by using the perspective of the flux of psychic return in order to understand these women’s continuous aesthetic labour, I emphasize the importance of self-satisfaction as a determinant gain of the valorization of appearance in this process of maximizing self-appreciation and diminishing self-depreciation. I underline not only the importance of the functioning of an economy of affects which supports and overdetermines their beauty practices but also, in some circumstances, that the immaterial return in the quest for beauty takes priority over material earnings and the influences of social pressures. As well, my analysis finds complex and overlapping relations between self-satisfaction and neoliberal rationality such that self-appreciation constitutes the pleasure of embodying a recognized ideal of the maternal, the joy of overcoming undisciplined flesh, and the confidence-enhancement of being mistakenly seen as a young girl.

E. PENGEMBANGAN KUALITAS KEMASAN PRODUK PENJUALAN MASKER KECANTIKAN (STUDI KASUS UMKM DIENIS BEAUTY SIDOARJO)

ABSTRAK Dienis Beauty merupakan usaha online yang menjual produk masker kecantikan merk ternama dan memiliki legalitas resmi dari Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (BPOM). Permasalahan yang timbul yaitu mengenai kemasan kurang menarik yang dapat mengancam pengusaha tersebut apabila kualitas kemasan tersebut tidak segera dirubah dikarenakan dalam proses produksi kemasan nya masih menggunakan mesin manual dalam proses pengerjaannya. Kualitas kemasan produk dianggap penting mengingat interaksi pertama yang akan memikat minat konsumen untuk melakukan pembelian yaitu melalui tampilan luar produk yang dikenal dengan kemasan. Kegiatan penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan informasi mengenai ideal nya suatu kualitas kemasan untuk menembus sebuah penjualan dan memberikan dampak positif bagi para pelaku Usaha Mikro,Kecil,dan Menengah (UMKM) agar tetap berdiri dan bertahan ditengah ketatnya persaingan. Kata kunci : kualitas kemasan produk, penjualan, UMKM ABSTRACT Dienis Beauty is an online business that sells well-known brand beauty mask products and has official legality from the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM). The problem that arises is regarding the packaging that is less attractive and can threaten the entrepreneur if the quality of the packaging is not changed immediately because in the production process the packaging still uses manual machines in the process. The quality of product packaging is considered important considering that the first interaction that will attract consumers to make a purchase is through the outer appearance of the product known as packaging. This research activity aims to provide information about the ideal quality of packaging to penetrate a sale and have a positive impact on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) players in order to stand and survive in the midst of intense competition. Keywords: quality of product packaging, sales, MSMEs

Sprezzatura in Postmodern Perspective

Fashion in contemporary time is a prominent part of the art. In the status of fashion, Postmodernism plays a huge role in the art world. In this research paper, the researcher deals with the idea of Sprezzatura in the modern world, and it plays a vital role in the concept of Sprezzatura in work The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione in Postmodern perspective. In recent times people misunderstand the word Sprezzatura, and it changed people’s inner thought and outer appearance through this concept.

A STUDY ON SOCIAL APPEARANCE ANXIETY AND COPING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

Social appearance anxiety is a term related to the individual's concerns about their outer appearance so it is described as the worry and tension they experience if their outer appearance is assessed and criticized by the society. It is a term that predicts the fear on negative feelings on physical appearance. Social appearance anxiety in individuals who belongs to the adolescent category and the youth category might experience serious problems in their future. This helps the individuals to develop different types of coping attitudes among them. Individual use these coping strategies to minimize the problems occurred due to anxiety, stress or such negative life situations. The present study was used to determine the connection and association between social appearance anxiety and coping. The study was done on college students in Coimbatore and the data collected using Social Appearance Anxiety Scale and Brief Cope Inventory. The result showed that both the social appearance anxiety and the coping is moderate in college students but the relation between these two is relatively high. This means that the students developed coping to overcome negative evaluation of body image by the society and to minimize the problems of such anxiety.