Name: Ciela Lalvani

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, 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: Rebecca Fisk

Type of Fieldwork: Workshop

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

Last week my group and a few other groups and I went to the Paley Center to hear about women in the media. We watched clips from old shows, new shows, music videos, and commercials to see how media presents and make women look. We talked about comparisons between men and women in the media, and how the media makes women seem weaker, and more delicate, and how that can affect young girls. We also talked about the effect of comments at home that can make girls more insecure and not wanting to look a certain way.

Something that really resonated with me was this one commercial where kids where the ones being interviewed. It showed the interviewer asking kids, “How does a girl run?” The kids who were older ran weakly and the younger kids ran fast and didn’t care about how they look. This just shows how as kids grow up their perception of identity changes which is a big problem in the world of media today.