Thesis

Body issues are prevalent in our society, these issues are serious problems, millions of young girls and woman are struggling with this issue; across the nation in order to transform themselves into what society defines as “beautiful”. Social media gives a false “ideal image” and pressures females to be society’s idea of thin. 

Technology Progress or Prevail?

I think this is a very wishy washy subject, people can argue for hours on what the right answer is.  These readings on technology really opened my eyes. I realized that the statement that people use technology and don’t know how or why is absolutely true. I use technology everyday and to be quite honest I never even thought on how it was invented or anything like that, I just use it.  I think that I need to start opening my eyes more and realizing what I am using. I think technology is created to make progress but people abuse it and bring prevail. 

Annotated Bibliograph

Brown, Amy, and Helga Dittmar. "Think, "Thin" And Feel Bad: The Role Of Appearance Schema Activation, Attention Level, And Thin-Ideal Internalization For Young Women's Responses To Ultra-Thin Media Ideals." Journal Of Social & Clinical Psychology 24.8 (2008): 1088-1113. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Apr. 2013.

Exposure to thin media models has a negative effect on women's body image, and the current study extends previous research by examining the relative impact and interrelation of an individual’s differences in women's internalization of the thin ideal, and an individual’s tendency to make social comparisons with media models. Body-focused anxiety of adult professional women was examined after they had been exposed to one of three types of images: thin models, average -size models, or no models. This analysis confirmed that thin-ideal internalization and tendency toward appearance-related social comparisons act as moderators of media effects, but internalization is a more proximal and specific predictor of women's anxiety than more general social comparison. Negative reactions to thin images are conditional on internalization only, whereas high internalization undermines the positive effects of exposure to average-size models when it combines with strong habitual social comparison.

            I would say this source is very reliable because it’s from a clinical research as well. Also because it’s pretty recent since the study was done in 2008.

            I think this is a perfect source to help me prove my argument on how the media has a negative effect on women’s body issues. I am going to use the statistics that are explained in this source.