Saturday, December 10, 2011
Pop Stars and Body Image
For my project, I wrote a paper about the effects of idolizing pop stars on young girls' body images. I was inspired to write this paper because of my own experience fawning over pop stars like Britney Spears as an adolescent. Several studies (that I cite in this paper) show that watching music videos has an adverse effect on girls’ body dissatisfaction. It is for this reason (among others) that I think media literacy should be included in school curriculums. In my research, I found many articles calling for a need to include media literacy in school, but few U.S. schools have actually been able to do so.
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I enjoyed your presentation. Sorry for the long delay in response but I, too, had a similar experience as a teen. I wanted very much to look like Janet Jackson when I was in junior high; that was when she was "hot" and popular.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, great presentation and best of luck in your journey towards getting media literacy in schools.