Women in the Media

Interview With Jen Foyle

by Sophie

On Tuesday, February 7th, we had the fantastic to meet with Jen Foyle the Global Brand President of Aerie. We interviewed her about the #aeriereal campaign for American Eagle. The campaign is try to show that women are beautiful and every body is beautiful. All the models are diverse and none of them look the…

by Sophie

Drew Barrymore grew up in the media spotlight. She is best known for her roles in E.T., 50 First Dates, Never Been Kissed and many, many more. As a teen, she grew up living a hard life surrounded by drugs and alcohol. But, now as an adult she is an amazing woman. We had the…

by Lily M

Our seventh fieldwork was getting the opportunity to meet and talk with Jennifer Foyle who is the president of Aerie, American Eagle. We went to their offices and we were greeted by her assistant who took us up to Jennifer’s office. We asked her about their #aeriereal campaign where they use a variety of models…

by Natalie

At 11:30 on February sixth, my social justice group and I walked into the lobby of the Aerie design office on 37th street. After signing in, Abbey Ruggiero, the kind lady in which I was able to schedule the interview with, came downstairs on the elevator to pick us up. We take the elevator three…

by Kiki

Recently, my group and I got the amazing opportunity to interview Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore is a very well known actress who has been in the spotlight for almost her entire life. We could not interview her in person, so we spoke with her over the phone. Drew was very informative and detailed in her…

by Lily M

Our sixth fieldwork was having the amazing opportunity of talking to Drew Barrymore. As you may know, she has been in the media since an early age and she has made her own production company to portray women in a realistic way. Thanks to my father who works with her, we got to call her…

by Natalie

My social justice group and I were so lucky and honored to be given the chance to interview Ms. Drew Barrymore. Even though the interview was in a phone call instead of a FaceTime or in person, the call was very informative and overall a really great experience. We started off the interview with Lily’s…

by Natalie

For our fourth fieldwork, Kiki had arranged for us to interview with plus-sized model for Jennie Runk. Jennie Runk began modeling when she was 14. She was discovered at a show, and she was the only plus sized model in the room. “I was a size 14 in a room filled of size 0s and…

by Lily M

Our fifth fieldwork was FaceTiming the plus-size model, Jennie Runk. We asked her about her experiences doing what she does and how she thinks women are being portrayed in media and magazines. It was very interesting because she has been working in the modeling industry since she was fourteen and so she was very experienced.…

by Kiki

For our fourth fieldwork, we scheduled an interview with Jennie Runk, who is a plus sized model, who is also a member of the LGBTQ community. At the time she started modeling, she was a size ten or twelve. When she was discovered, she was given the option to lose or gain weight to become…

by Kiki

Hidden Figures is about three African American women who work at NASA as mathematicians and how they fight for equal rights in the workplace. Since they are both women and African American, they face a lot of discrimination such as passive comments, people not wanting to touch objects that they, in particular, have used, and…

by Lily M

For our fourth fieldwork, we went to see the newly released movie, Hidden Figures. This movie is about African American women who work at NASA as mathematicians and fight for equality for both African Americans and women. Throughout the movie, they stand up to what they think is right and they prove themselves worthy of…

by Lily M

Our third fieldwork was going to the Taylor Swift Experience at the Grammy Museum. This exhibit was mostly made by Taylor Swift herself. We went there because we wanted to see how they would portray Taylor Swift, the pop star who has been criticised in the media many times. We wanted to know if the…

by Kiki

This fieldwork may be a bit confusing as to why we would go, but we had a very good reason. Taylor swift has been a huge figure in the media and is also a woman. She is well known for being a country singer and later switching to the pop genre. But she is also…

by Lily M

Our second field work was going to the Paley Center for Media. We went to go be a part of a workshop/conference about women’s portrayal in the media. A woman named Rebecca greeted us and she brought us to a small theater room. The conference lasted two hours and was extremely interesting. We started off…

by Sophie

We walked into the Taylor Swift Experience thinking it would be a museum based on celebrity drama or past boyfriends or magazine rumors. However, I was very impressed by the exhibit. It was all about Taylor’s accomplishments as a musician and the talents she had. They had videos of each of her grammy speeches and…

by Sophie

On November 28th, my group attended a workshop at the Paley Center for Media. The Paley Center is a nonprofit museum preserving television and radio programs. The workshop we attending was Women and Girls In The Media. We were greeted in the lobby by Rebecca and she took us to a theatre on the second…

by Natalie

My group’s first field work was watching a movie called Miss Representation. The film was about all the types of ways women are misrepresented in the media in this day and age. When women become big figures in politics, a lot of times they tend to focus on how she presents herself – not as in…

by Kiki

As our second fieldwork, the Women in the Media group contacted and scheduled a trip to the Paley Center For Media. Since our group is about the portrayal of women in the media, we thought this would be a great place to visit. We first called and contacted an official that worked at the center…

by Natalie

On Thursday, December 1st, my Social Justice group and I went to the Taylor Swift Experience, a Grammy museum in the South Street Seaport. We had decided to go to this museum because Taylor Swift is a very big female in the media today; the press is always writing about her, making up rumors, and she…

by Natalie

We went to the Paley Center for a fieldwork on November 28th, 2016. Once we went upstairs, a woman named Rebecca led us into a small theater. Once seated (in the front row), Rebecca asked us on our opinion on how women are portrayed in the media. The rest of the fieldwork was led…

by Lily M

For our first fieldwork, we decided we wanted to watch a documentary. We thought it was a good way to introduce ourselves to the subject. The movie we watched was called “Miss Representation” Written and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The movie was all about how women, and young women, are portrayed so badly and…

by Kiki

For my first social justice fieldwork, my group watched a movie called Miss Representation. I personally thought this movie was amazing and incredibly informing. It really opened my eyes on how hyper-sexualized women are in our society. I think it’s disgusting how we are constantly portrayed as sex objects, just a pretty face, stupid, and…

by Clair

Our group is studying the unfair discrimination against women in the media. Women are constantly oversexualised in the media. Women who don’t look or act the way society expects them to are ridiculed. As women in society this day and age, we feel that it’s important to prevent to show everyone that we are more…

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