Friday, January 3, 2020

Burgess, Melinda, and Sandra Burpo. The Effect of Music...

Burgess, Melinda, and Sandra Burpo. The Effect of Music Videos on College Students Perceptions of Rape. College Student Journal 46.4 (2012): Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. Basically, the article is divided into three parts. The first part grouped evidence from several studies about the widespread of women’s portrayal as degraded sex objects in music videos of most types. Then the second part discuss the experiment which was done to examine whether if there was a relationship between these music videos and the way college students think about date rape. Finally, the third part discusses and finalizes the end results. Males were less likely to†¦show more content†¦N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2014. This article examined the present study highlights self-objectification as a previously unexamined variable that may be involved in the female response to media stimuli. The central purpose of the study was to examine whether viewing thin-idealized medi a images would increase state self-objectification, negative affect and body dissatisfaction in young women. Then the article discussed the experiment done, which compared the effect of intensive exposure of thin models magazines and magazines advertising products without people. Also, the author presented comprehensive description of how those effects, self-objectification, appearance anxiety, negative mood and body dissatisfaction, were measured. In the last part, the author showed the results, which showed that the group which was exposed to the thin-idealized models scored much higher number in all the previously-stated measures compared to the group which was exposed to products’ images. When it comes to the author, she is a psychology professor at Flinders University and she is well known by her publications related to body image and media’s effects. The article was well written with flexible and easy style to be understood by the reader. Furthermore, there was a comprehensive explanation of the conceptions used in the experiment, which made it very clear and easier to understand the analysis of the experiment’s results. The source is

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