Course Description

At the core of the course is the question how feminism has become a demonized and ridiculed “F-word” in an age when issues of gender and sexuality are at the center of constant, often explosive political debates. These debates often connect media representation and political representation but tend to do so in simplistic ways that bypass or distort decades of sophisticated feminist theory and practice. We will trace back such representations through the decades around case studies that encompass film, video, television and new media practices. The case studies come from the United States and beyond, taking into full account the global interconnectedness of media production and consumption as well as the transnational travel of feminist ideas. The main goal of the course is to evaluate how useful feminist thinking is to understanding the relays between media and political representation; and to develop a lasting critical apparatus to analyzing the politics of gender and sexuality in the media.


Friday, December 6, 2013

Social Media creating negative perspective of beauty


I found very interesting the topics of visibility that we discussed in class later in the semester. As i will be talking about in my essay, l plan to show how media outlets, such as Facebook, twitter, instagram have created a misleading image and message of beauty and body image. Within our society, today almost everyone has a Facebook, twitter or is on some form of social media. Our world today is greatly adapting and evolving towards a social media world. These media outlets and progressiveness are very beneficial to society but they do bring very noticeable harm to young women today. When we take a picture, we assume that it will be visible to everyone because we know it will be uploaded online. Many young girls, including myself focus more on looking good in the picture and posing the correct way to look the skinniest and prettiest than actually being in the moment of the picture. Such public media, that these young girls are growing up in today is helping stimulate this wave of superficialness and negative awareness on the body. This stimulates a negative perspective of beauty that these young girls carry. Also with Instagram for example, because it is public and anyone can choose to follow you, girls feel that they have to upload only pretty pictures of themselves in order to get the most likes and followers. This evolving image n=of beauty needs a quick makeover before young girls get too far obsessed with their appearance on social media

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