• blog 6

    Mass media influences on body image and body esteem in female adolescents: the mediating role of hopeful future expectations Alessandro Musetti A, Adriano Schimmenti, and Paola Corsano In Western countries, the ideal female body is seen as extremely thin which is unrealistic for most girls, adolescents, and young women. Several…

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  • blog 5

    Framing analysis: an approach to new discourse Pan and Kosicki Frame analysis comes from the position that we all actively classify, organize, and interpret our life experiences to make sense of them. The “schemata of interpretation,” also known as frames, enable individuals “to locate, perceive, identify and label” occurrences or…

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  • blog 4

    Framing theory as a theory of Media Effects By Dietram Scheufele This article goes through 2 approaches that I may use for my media analysis. The first demotion of framing research is the type of frame being examined, media frames vs. audience frames. The second is the way those frames…

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  • blog 3

    Fisher ‘This research suggested viewing peer exclusion as a phenomenon serving normative development during latency. It helps children develop a “social self”—a personality structure that allows individuals to free themselves from their egocentric positions to function within and for a group.’ Kids will copy what happens around them and even…

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  • blog 2

    Bidgood’s article “digital diet” talks about digital media consumption of children under 5 years old. Bidgood admits that valuable skills, including language, problem‐solving, and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) can be learned through apps, videos, and educational TV on touchscreen devices like iPads but noninteractive games like mindless videos. For…

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  • blog 1

    I want to focus on children’s mental health and social media. I want to analyze pieces of children’s media from various sources like YouTube or shows promoted on social media and how those messages affect children’s mental health. The social media children consume may contribute to issues with depression, anxiety,…

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