Name: Lila McCormick

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Mental Health and Teens (Covid, Access to Mental Health Care/Health Care)

Date of Fieldwork: February 2, 2023

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

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?:

On February 2nd, my group had the opportunity to join the Women’s Representation in the Media group for a workshop led by the Paley Center for Media. This is an institution that promotes safety in using the media and how best to navigate it. We were shown a series of clips from old shows, music videos, and movies, that showed mainly how women were portrayed in the media. This was extremely fascinating and taught me about how deeply rooted many of these stereotypes are. In addition to this, the woman leading the discussion gave us a brief overview on how these exaggerations promote bad body image which can lead to eating disorders. It taught me about how a show that might not have a necessary malicious intent can still have an extremely detrimental impact on young teens.