Name: Hudson McDonald

Social Justice Group: Body Image and Social Media

Date of Fieldwork: February 18, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):The Paley Center for Media

Type of Fieldwork: Other

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

Body image and Social media, Sexual Harassment, and Abortion laws groups all went to the Paley Center for media to take one of the classes there. We were in a theater room where we talked about the media and women. We talked about how women in media are sexualized and objectified through various platforms. We also talked about how comments on peoples bodies can affect womens view on their bodies.

Something in this fieldwork that stood out to me was the way the media can even affect kids. They showed how older kids cared how they looked while running and younger kids who did not use social media ran as fast as they could. this shows how as kids grow up and start to use the media more, it changes how they want to look. Another part of the fieldwork that I learned about was how women are portrayed in the media. Two of the women represented are Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears. Their were many negative stereotypes that followed these women just because of hwo they were shown in the media.