Ownership & Control – Who the texts are coming from is always very important to consider what sort of ideologies they are trying to represent. Such as America’s next top Model, which is hosted by Tyra Banks who herself was once a model, but now has become a plus size model and therefore to reflect her ideologies on body image she has chosen to portray that plus size ( real life ) people can be models.
Gender – Gender is also key, as I am looking at the body image of women in specific and how the male gender also has an input in to how body image is being constructed on TV. Recent surveys suggest that men are looking for curvy women not stick thin women.
Reality TV – The texts I will be looking at are America’s Next Top Model, How to look good naked and supersize vs. super skinny. All three are reality TV programs.
Media Effects – the media is very important, as it consumes so much of the public’s lives, so the shifts in how people perceive body image has also been changed dominantly by the media and Reality TV programs that accept real life people as beautiful.
Moral Panics – Repeatedly we see in the media, overweight people and how we should eat healthily, and even children have been included. However shows like Supersize VS Super skinny present the unhealthy extent that dieting can have on people.
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