Alwoodaysafgbq.files.wordpress.com
Methods
For the specific type of research I conducted, I decided to use an interview method to find the results I desired. I needed to use the interview method because my research deals with the females own opinion, and how they are affected by the media. I conducted private interviews with about ten female college students attending IUP. These female students were selected at random from varies places around campus. Each female that I’ve selected had a different body type from the next participant. I did this because I wanted to see how each female with a different body type reacted to the media along with their thoughts and opinions about a female’s body. My interviews lasted approximately fifteen to twenty minutes for each participant. With each interview I started off by telling them how I feel about the media and how it effected me, I also told them why I was doing these interviews and how they will further help me prove my point with my research.
I decided to research how the media affects a female college student’s body image because the media affects how I look at myself and I wanted to know if it affects others. With my research based work I found that many people do feel that the media does affect a female in certain ways. Some females may exercise excessively; diet and even self induce vomiting to achieve the body the media portrays as perfect and acceptable. I did this research so that I can influence females that it’s okay to be happy with their own body and hopefully raise awareness to the media industry that the pictures and views they are sending to females can be very harmful, may even cause death.
I chose ten female college students on the IUP campus because my research involves female college students. I made sure to pick my participants with different body types so that I could find out how each person is affected and if they are happy with their own bodies. I pick my participants at random so that I could get a completely different point of view then from my own. If I would have used my friends or people that I know, the results may have come out different because I already know how my friends feel and most of their views are similar with my own. To find my participants I went to random locations around the IUP campus and selected at least two participants from each location.
With each interview I made sure that my participants were comfortable with me, so I let them know a little bit about myself and my feelings on how the media effects me personally. I let them know that I work out because I want to have a body that is accepted to society. I also diet and try to not eat fast food or greasy foods. I let them know that when I buy my outfits I try to mimic famous actresses and models that I’ve recently seen wearing something similar. I also discussed my weight with them and what I believe is a healthy weight for me, along with what I think is the perfect body for a female to purse. After telling them about myself and allowing them to get to know me better as a person and an interviewer I allowed them to explain to me who they are before I started with the interview.
Some of my important interview questions that I asked during each interview are as followed, How involved are you with media, whether it is TV, Movies, E!, or Magazines? I then asked each participant; do you look at media as a guideline to how you want to live your life and how you want to look? After a few board questions I got a little more personal with my participants and asked them, Have you changed your appearance for any reason besides your own, meaning have you ever dyed your hair to look like a celebrity? Another question I asked concerning appearance was, have you ever had any plastic surgery done or plan too? I also asked my participants if they work out, how often they work out and why they work out. Concluding my interviews I asked each participant what they believe is the perfect body and image for a female to pursue. With all this information I hope to find that I am right in the fact that media does influence a female and how she looks at herself as a woman.
................
................
In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.
To fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents.
It is intelligent file search solution for home and business.