Name: Simone Sokol
Social Justice Group: 2019-2020, Women’s Image & the Media
Date of Fieldwork: November 22, 2019
Name of Organization: The Paley Center for Media
Person (people) with whom I met and their job titles: Caroline Quigley from the Education Department
Type of Fieldwork: Other
What I did:
First, we talked a bit with Caroline about how women are represented in the media. Then we watched a montage of television history (30 years) of how women are showed. We saw a lot of rich, blonde, skinny, white girls who hate school and are boy crazy.
What I learned:
How women are represented in the media and how both women and men learn from that. It is a very toxic system.
What I learned about Social Justice “work” and/or Civil and Human rights “work” from this fieldwork:
How however bad things may be, someone will always fight for the right thing. People are fixing this image of women, but a lot of work still needs to be done–this is something my group and I can contribute through our social justice project.
