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The exploitation of women in mass media begins from a young age, which becomes noticeable in media texts such as Lolita. The Lolita Effect is a term coined by Meenakshi Gigi Durham, taken from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita , that highlights “the sexualization of girlhood in today’s highly mediated and global society”. [ 107 ]
People fail to recognize that photo-shop is widely used on models in magazines and in advertisements which gives an unrealistic expectation. An online survey in 2010 consisting of 100 girls aged 13–17 was conducted by Girl Scouts. What they found was that 9 out of 10 girls felt pressure from the fashion and media industries to be skinny.
With the mass advertisement promoting thin body, plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery, women and young girls are being bombarded with this very idea of achieving thin body. [16] This issue is being control by some countries such as Israel and France in which they regulate the body mass indexes of models and let the public know whether the ad ...
Besides, mass media has become a driving force to discrimination based on gender. Images and expectations of gender roles are highlighted through a variety of platforms and sources like the structure of language, activities, media, school settings, historical passages or art pieces, and the workplace. [29]
The American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is a topic of extensive mass media interest and press coverage. As a person both widely admired and criticized, her life and career elicit a range of public opinion and scrutiny. Authors and academics have examined Swift's high social approval as well as the tendency to controversy.
Sexually explicit and abusive fake images of Swift began circulating widely this week on the social media platform X. The deepfake-detecting group Reality Defender said it tracked a deluge of ...
Of the 2,000-plus mass shootings since 2013 in which a perpetrator’s gender was known, fewer than 60 involved female assailants, according to an NBC News analysis of Gun Violence Archive data.
These girls, ages 8–12, were asked to take images from the media to illustrate what they thought girls and women should or should not do. The sources of media used by the girls in the study included images from: newspapers, magazines, photos of advertisements (in subways, elevators, etc.), television, and Internet.