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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"media images"”.
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Violent Media Images as Socializing Agents: An Analysis of Role Models
… have led to subsequent increases in rates of media consumption, especially by youths. Through the increased use and access of media sources, pre-adolescents and adolescents have greater access to their role models. Research has shown that observing violent media images correlates with …
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Building a body for governance : embodying power in the shifting media images of Arnold Schwarzenegger
… to make connections among Schwarzenegger’s media representations as an exemplar of muscular masculinity and his accruement of immense cultural, political, and economic capital. By analyzing his celebrity images across his career (i.e. bodybuilding, film and politics) I show how he has been …
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The "toughness conundrum" : contemporary mainstream media images of women in the public sphere during the "war on terror"
… the relationship between gender, war, and media constructions of both. Using the theoretical frameworks of the social constructions of gender and the gendered constructions of the public sphere, I have analyzed how Time magazine portrayed Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton in discussions …
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Media Images of Sub-Saharan African Countries on the Three U.S. Television News Networks (Abc, Cbs, and Nbc) From January 1980 to September 1988: a Content Analysis
This study was undertaken to provide an understanding of how the networks gave news coverage of Sub-saharan African countries from January 1980 to September 1988. The research questions were: what sort of news coverage do these countries get, and more specifically, what salient events are more …
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self-imAGE
Many current media images of women have underlying messages that affect our psyche in a negative way, whether or not we are aware. These images convey an unrealistic, distorted view of ideals and perfection, which create an unattainable model to live up to. As women, we should be cherishing our …
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The Effects of Exposure to Slender and Muscular Images on Male Body Dissatisfaction
… EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO SLENDER AND MUSCULAR IMAGES ON MALE BODY DISSATISFACTION (85 pp.)</p><p>Director of Thesis: Janis H. Crowther</p><p> The present study examined the effects of appearance-based comparisons to muscular and slender idealized male bodies on body dissatisfaction and the …
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Using computer vision to gain health insights from social media
… tools for gaining health insights from social media images. On the one hand, I have helped create a dataset for food image segmentation and a segmentation network for this task, a task that is very relevant for understanding the nutritional content of food from images. I also explored the flip …
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Is it Really Skin Deep? An Analysis of "Ugly Betty's" Influence on Females' Understanding of Beauty
… between each discussion and used to analyze the media's influence. The results show that the discussion and the new framing of beauty and ugliness in the clip influenced the women's interpretations by either creating new understandings or re-enforcing existing beliefs. The women also considered …
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Power and Perfection in Karen Finley's <em>The Constant State of Desire</em>: Creating a New Discourse.
… perfection is engrained in one's psyche through media images and habituated behaviors. Finley does not offer a new language through which to communicate suffering, but she draws the reader's attention to the inadequacies of psychological and cultural rhetoric, thus engaging in an important step …
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Mind over media: Conscious and unconscious responses to media messages
Human response to media images is a product of both conscious and preconscious processing, involving structural mechanisms within the brain as well as individual self-concepts, issues of identity, ideological beliefs, and relevance. Visual and auditory processing incorporates both conscious and …
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Self-Esteem, Body Image and Appearance Management Behaviors among Korean and Caucasian-American Women: Associations to Attitudes toward Social Comparison and Model’s Ethnicity in Advertisements
… concept of beauty has been promoted through mass media. Women often compare themselves with the idealized images in the media and such comparisons may lead to body dissatisfaction and lower self-esteem. Individuals who are dissatisfied with their body are likely to engage in appearance management …
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Networks For Girls: An Examination of the Girls Circle Process
… on a day-to-day basis, with peer evaluations and media images being the biggest influences. They also had negative experiences with friends and dating partners prior to attending Girls Circle. Girls Circle was found to improve girls‘ self-esteem, body image, and desire to make friends.
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Cooking and Eating the Other: Contemporary Representations of Domestic Workers in Popular Media
<p>The mass media governs relations among social groups, manufactures political sentiment and shapes opinions on economic relations between individuals to reproduce a self-perpetuating system of power for a minute elite. The construction and organized distribution of manipulated cultural images …
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Mapping motivations for a Canadian leisure experience : impact of social media engagement
… Experience seeks to reveal the impact social media has on the leisure tourist experience in Canada. Desired experiences vary from generation to generation. How influential are informally generated images shared through modern day technology such as social media forums to the leisure experience …
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Rural men in urban China: masculinity and identity formation of male peasant workers
… representation of them through government and media images. In response, the thesis argues for the need to address the men’s self-representation in the construction of their dislocated masculine identities. There is a specific focus on their gendered experiences within the family and the …
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The Thin Ideal and Body Positivity: How Do Influencers Affect Female Instagram Users?
<p>With the vast increase in social media use, there has also been an increase of exposure to body image ideals via photos shared online. Accordingly, it has become more important to understand the association between social media and how its users view their body image, as well as how social media …
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Gay families in the media in the age of HIV and AIDS
This thesis investigates print media discourse on gay families in the context of HIV/AIDS and the gay rights movement. Comparing and contrasting reports from the mainstream heterosexual press, the mainstream gay press, and the gay community press, revealed a moral discourse on AIDS that implicated …
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Image Slavery and Mass Media Pollution: Examining the Sociopolitical Context of Beauty and Self Image in the Lives of Black Women
… women negotiate the intersections of popular media, dominant discourses of beauty, and identity are rarely explored. This work brings into focus how African American women consume, understand, and make meaning of mediated images and representations of African American women. In order to inform …
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Mass media consumption and its effects on college students' healthy and unhealthy behaviors
… has become more and more advanced, mass media have become a constant fixture in American life. Our society has become heavily dependent on mass media for its entertainment value, socialization ability and ever present window to the world. This study is based on the power that the mass …
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Queering in the Years: Gay Visibility in the Irish Media, 1974-2008
… Irish television, film and alternative activist media between 1974 and 2008. The thesis argues that LGBT activists originally deployed media visibility for the liberatory potential of advancing LGBT rights. However, mainstream media institutions exploited queer identities for economic purposes; …
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