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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Image Studies"”.
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PERFECTION, WRETCHED, NORMAL, AND NOWHERE: A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN TELEVISION SETTINGS
Drawing inspiration from numerous place image studies in geography and other social sciences, this dissertation examines the senses of place and regional identity shaped by more than seven hundred American television series that aired from 1947 to 2007. Each state's relative share of these programs …
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An exploratory Internet study: the relationship between men's self-reported physical attributes, body image, self-esteem, and Internet dating
… the past several decades in the area of body image, evaluations of physical appearances, and implications of eating disorders, has largely focused on women. In the late 80s, some researchers challenged the conceptualisation of body image dissatisfaction as a uni-gender problem and pioneered a …
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Hyperimage: Photography Beyond the Human Scale
Hyperimage refers to a myriad of emerging imaging practices, such as remote sensing and computer vision, where large-scale computation valorises the massification of photography to automate image-making and interpretation. These practices comprise an assemblage of computational …
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An Examination of Social Media and the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image Disturbance
<p>The Tripartite Influence Model of body image disturbance demonstrates that parents, peers, and media play a role in the development of body image dissatisfaction and eating disorder psychopathology. Research suggests that parents, peers, and media play direct roles on the development of body …
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A retrospective observational study of the effectiveness of long acting antipsychotic injectable on hospital admissions
… retrospective naturalistic observational mirror-image study. Hospitalisation was utilised as a proxy for relapse. Results: Sixty-one patients were identified for the study. A comparison of the 12 months before LAI initiation to the 12 months following LAI initiation showed a reduction in the …
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Fitspiration’s perceived influence on body image and exercise behavior for young adults
… as magazines and television can influence body image concerns among both men and women (Fitzsimmons-Craft et al., 2014; Barlett et al., 2008; Grab, Ward & Hyde, 2008). However, social media may uniquely contribute to body image as it features the users themselves; users tend to post curated and …
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Social media and body image: It's complicated
Body image is an important dimension of life, and in a media-saturated world, we are supposedly surrounded by images of 'idealised' physical body types that are harmful to people's body image. Many theories have been put forward to account for the growing idealisation of 'thin' and 'toned' women …
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An Evaluation of the image of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the British and Swedish markets and the implications for marketing the country as a tourism destination.
Tourism image is critical to the success of any destination, but few image studies to date have focused specifically on either Jordan or the UK and Sweden; furthermore, none has analysed the image of Jordan as a tourist destination in either the UK or Sweden or the influence of religious beliefs as …
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Libraries in Battle: An Analysis of the Image of the Library in Texts by Swift, Borges, and Sloan
<p>This essay examines the image of the library in texts by Jonathan Swift, Jorge Luis Borges, and Robin Sloan. Libraries are prevalent institutions in many cultures throughout the world, often known through positive or negative stereotypes. By studying texts whose time periods, subject matter, and …