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Women in Media. Pages. Photoshop. Persuasion. Power. Presented by Shayla Alamino CMC 100 Professor Gournelos. Thesis.
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Women in Media.Pages. Photoshop. Persuasion. Power. Presented by ShaylaAlamino CMC 100 Professor Gournelos
Thesis I am doing a content analysis of the 2009 September issue of O Magazine, the 2010 September issue of Cosmopolitan, and the . This paper will discuss the psychological impact media has on manipulating the body in the American culture. I am going to be looking at the situation, the physical attributes, and the data to support my content analysis.
THE SITUATIONand data Ideal women are slender, confident, and attractive. Getting slim means you are one step closer to getting a man. Woman gets man through physical attraction. Happiness is equated with romantic fulfillment. Romantic fulfillment is equated with physical attraction. Physical attraction is equated with ideal body image. Woman gets man through physical attraction. 72% of the advertisements had a woman posing seductively with a man
PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTIONSand data Part of woman’s body used to connote an impactful message. 87.4% of the advertisements contained a specific body part of a woman alongside a product. ( Eye for Covergirl, Hair for Herbal Essence, and
Reflection After spending hours flipping pages, analyzing advertisements, and scanning multiple advertisements, I realized that in each of the advertisements it became less about the actual text and more about the physical shape of the body within each of the advertisements.