“Specific Page Title or Article Title” Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?” | Photoshopping: Altering Images and Our Minds! |
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV | Beauty Redefined |
Title of the Entire Website (not www. ) Ex: CBC News | Beauty Redefined |
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC | KiTE media |
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010 | 30 November 2011 |
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012 | 7 February 2012 |
<URL address> (ALL of it) |
FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV). |
Photoshop has become a big problem and people don't know big of an issue this really is. These altering images manipulate unrealistic ideals, "While the vast majority of images of women are being digitally altered, so are our perceptions of normal, healthy, beautiful and attainable" (Beauty Redefined). |
The medias main way to work is to use underweight models or close to underweight or using photoshop to make them look abnormally thin, "Essentially, 'the feminine ideal is tanned, healthy slenderness, with no unsightly bumps, bulges or cellulite, and bodily and facial perfection that results from hours of labor: exercise, makeup and hair care' (Coward, 1985) " (Beauty Redefined). |
Magazines dramatically alter woman to a point where they do not even look like themselves anymore, one example would be Kelly Clarkson's magazine cover, "It’s hard to believe anyone’s “personal best” is a fake representation of herself. They’ll plaster “body confidence!” all over the magazine and quote Kelly talking about her own real body confidence, but they refuse to show us her actual body" (Beauty Redefined). |
That was only one example that many people have noticed but in reality the photo altering is everywhere, magazines, billboards, television, etc. because all of these altered woman are everywhere, "those images form a new standard for not just “beautiful,” but also “average” and “healthy” in our minds. When women compare themselves to a standard of beautiful, average and healthy that simply doesn’t exist in real life, the battle for healthy body image is already lost" (Beauty Redefined). |
Due to all of the manipulating the, " representations of women’s bodies across the media spectrum have shrunk dramatically in the last three decades, rates of eating disorders have skyrocketed – tripling for college-age women from the late ‘80s to 1993 and rising since then to 4% suffering with bulimia (National Eating Disorder Association, 2010).'" (Beauty Redefined). |
Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
This article puts out that the media uses photoshop to transform a normal looking woman into an extravagant unrealistic person. As a result of these manipulated women, other women strive to be them by resorting to eating disorders, plastic surgery, etc. Women want to be them and men want someone like them. The article helps the readers realize that the women they see in the magazines are not real.
Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?
The purpose of this site is to expose the media of their true intentions and show the readers what they really do. Beauty Redefined funds this site.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
From what I read I don't think they have anything to gain from writing this. It is more of an informative site. It is informing its readers how the media transforms photographs.
Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
Yes there is a little bias. in the fact that on the negative effects of how the media manipulates people in how people should look to be beautiful.
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
Yes the author does cite a couple references in the writing. It adds credibility to the article.
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?
I plan to use this source as evidence to how the media manipulates the people's minds as to how they should look. Also how the media transforms photos and the end result can come out not even looking like the person at all. I want to use this to help prove to people that even the people in the magazines don't look like that so they should be happy with themselves.
