The question that I chose was: An exploration of how the media the media represents dieting within the 21st century.
Within the class we sat on different tables are were asked to complete different activities on everyone elses work.
Carousal 1 was to re arrange the question therefore write the question again in different words moreover to give an idea of that would be useful for the person.
1: An investigation of how the media represents women aged between 16-20 dieting with the 21st century.
This helped me because it gave me an idea of how to rearrange the question and how to approach the question in a variety of ways.
Analyse in depth and analyse different gender and age groups.
2. Media texts: Shown in magazines (celebrities), thinking about moral panic, idea of over exaggerated, have different media platforms, magazines reviews, TV programmes: USA, UK: fat camp, having different platforms to expand on your ideas, using a relationship between two programmes can show a strong argument of how two different programs represent themselves, size 0 models: the new idea of bigger women is that showing people are overcoming the ideas/needs to be skinny, colleen Rooney's show.
Social: Idea of social context sour rounding: relate to teenagers and self fulfilling prophecies.
3. S.H.E.P. Historical: When did size 0 come about?
What influenced it and why did it become such a major craze?
Social: Does social background have an impact on how much of a necessity is to a person?
Female vs male: why females feel the need to diet more then men.
Age variations: which age group does dieting more?
4. Theory: Feminist and patriarchal view.
This activity helped me to broaden my own ideas because the ideas that other people gave me were quite specific and helped me to think about critical debates and SHEP.
Economical: Does economic state have anything to do with dieting levels?
Good summary of what you did in class. I think this is a rich subject area as you know and there are a lot of possible texts to investigate across platforms.
ReplyDeleteCertainly there are good reasons to explore the huge variety of shows but I would warn against spreading the net too wide. I would also advise against trying to tackle the size Zero question unless this is the main focus of your investigation and you have researched this in detail: there was a lot in the press about size zero a couple of years back and you would need to look closely at texts across platforms which either endorse or support the ideology of super skinny models. This would then lead you inevitably into looking at the fashion industry and quite quickly the topic can become too broad to manage successfully in two thousand words.
Things to consider: how do TV programmes represent dieters? Is this related to broader media attitudes towards fat people? what does the audience get from the shows? which institutions benefit and why? is there a connection made by the media between diet and social standing, success or acceptance?