Jade

Jade is an eight grade student at LREI. She was born in NYC. She loves sports. Jade is on the school basketball, volleyball and tennis team. In her free time she loves to bake. She is very dedicated to her social justice project with the topic of how social media affects a teenage girls body image.

Interview at MindWell NYC

My group and I went to MindWell NYC and Interviewed Dr. Rebecca Skolnick, Dr Rachel Hutt. and Dr. Jessica Ran. They are all therapist for teenagers, one thing we asked about was if teenagers ever had issue with social media. They said that there were many issue with teenagers their bodies because of social media. We asked about what they would tell them to do that would help them with the issue. Someone that they said they make the teenager look in the mirror and say what each part of their body is for and what its meaning. This helps them think more about what their body is for more than what their body looks like.

Interview with SMAHRT about Social Media and Body Image

My group and I had a phone call interview with Megan A. Moreno and few people from her team. They are all on the SMAHRT at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We came up with many questions to ask them and they all gave us their thoughts on what they thought the answer would be.

Interview with Jenny McQuaile

My group and I had a phone call with Jenny McQuaile, the director of the film “Straight/Curve.” She made a documentary about how media has affected women and teens and how they feel about it.

Fieldwork at The Paley Center for Media

My group and I went with another group for sexualization of women in fashion to The Paley Center for Media. When we arrived to there offices a women named Caroline Quivley took us upstairs to a screening room where they would show us stuff about our topics. We watched many different types of adds, tv shows, movies, music videos and commercials that were stereotypical against women and their bodies.