More Progress

Today I have found some more articles on body image and the effect it has on women. The first one was found on www.healthyplace.com/communities/eating_disorders/body_image_advertising. The information obtained from this article turned out to be useful and included the results of some recent surveys into women and their appearance, such as 69% of girls said that magazine models influence their idea of the perfect body shape and 68% felt worse about their own appearance after looking through women's magazines. Another article I found on http://hkuspace.wordpress.com/ mentioned the messages behind the advertisements of cosmetic products this article wasn't as usueful as it didn't directly relate to my product

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jkJIxKcOs0I

A video I found on youtube after doing a search entitled body image and advertising turned out be really useful. It consists of numerous images accompanied by music and every now and again captions of writing appear on the images containing statistics about body image. The video shows how society is bombarded with images of skinny models especially in major advertising campaigns.

Progress so far.....

I recently changed my investigation from an investigation into the relationship between high profile court cases in the press to An investigation intro how advertising affects young women's perception of body image. At the moment I am just searching for various articles online relating to this topic.


So far I have found one article which outlines the message being given to women of today through advertising and research carried out on advertising's impact on women. This research was found on a website called Bella Woman and was extremely useful in helping me to gain various views and what people think about the relationship between women and advertising and the impact it has on them.

I have also found a Study called The Elastic Body Image: The Effect of Television Advertising and Programming on Body Image Distortions in Young Women. Conducted by Phillip N myers and Frank A Biocca at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This was found on www.questia.com/reader/action/open/96471160 the research study found that after only thirty minutes of watching television programmes and advertising a woman's perception of the shape of her body can be altered. This experiment is extremely useful for the topic of my critical research.