ANNO BIB :)

What is an Annotated Bibliography:

I found a short statement describing an annotated bibliography, it stated that an annotated bibliography is a list of citations followed by a brief description of each one. It is used to tell the reader about your sources and show the relevance, accuracy and quality of each source. In your brief description you should comment on the author the background of the author, Intended audience, compare and contrast to other articles and lastly explain how the article will go along with your topic.

Engle, Michael. “How to prepare an Annotated Bibligraphy”. Cornell University . February 15, 2010 . 

http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm#what
 

1) How can an annotated bibliography help you write the intro and lit review sections in your own paper?  It can help by just looking at it and seeing what you summarized for each article, also you look and read over them you can start brainstorming ideas by meshing all the topics together for a great introduction.

2) How do you know if your sources from your anno bib are reliable, valid, timely, and unbiased? You evaluate them to the best of your own ability. We were shown an internet article on how to evaluate sources and also found our own internet article, so by following those steps which should be able to find out. Also when we are doing our anno bib we are looking up our author and seeing what other work he or she did which will really help by letting us know if they were a one hit wonder or did more in-depth research.

Evluating my sources:

My first source I found on EBSCHOhost and it is related to the media and fashion industry and how they perceive women being extremely skinny, and how that affects a group of 99 women. When I first found this article I saw that it mentions in the title “underweight fashion models are associated with drive for thinness in young women,” which right there sparked my interest because that is what i was looking for. The next thing i looked at was the copyright date to make sure it wasn’t out dated, which it isn’t since it was published in 2008. Another thing that caught my eye was that there were three authors instead of one which means three brains were working on this to make it fully knowledgable.

My Second source I found by typing in the media and plastic surgery. Because i want to know why people think  plastic surgery is so cool and what affects the media has on that. Right away I saw that this title has Cosmetic surgery and Media in it which shows that this is what I was looking for. After finding a title that jumped out at me I looked at its author and their source. The source is Human Communications Research, and by it having research in the name i know i will be able to find hard facts or studies. After reading the abstract I found that this was a great article because it did do studies on a couple hundred women, which will really help me prove my point when writing my paper.

My third source I also found on EBSCOhost and is title, Sad kids, Sad media? I choose to pick this article because it does a study about the effects that the media may have on your mood. They did a study on a couple adolescents with major depression disorders. With this article I will be able to find out if the media does have any affect on whether or not it can make you happy or even more sad, which is why i chose this article. This along with other articles will really help me with finding out if the media does affect a childs mood, specially a child with a major depression disorder.

ANNO BIB:

Source number 1:

“A recipe for eating disorders” Nursing Standard. 21.28 (2007): 24-25 Web. February 23, 2010

This article explained some dangers of eating disorders like, the increase risk for infertility, osteoporosis, B12 deficiency, anaemia, mental health problems. It also talks about why we even allow a size 0 to be acceptable. Also states that the london fashion agenices believes that fashion looks good on thin girls, which is why they won’t ban size 0 models, even though that size is very unrealistc to many. This article also mentioned while talking about size 0 models that physical beauty is only skin deep, real beauty is what we are inside.

Soucre: 

Ahern, Amy. Bennett, Kate. Hetherington, Marion. “Eating Disorders” 16.4 (2008): 294-307. Web. February 12, 2010.

 This article did a study on 99 women using an IAT test and also asked them how they feel about their own bodies. This article did studies showing that pageant winners BMI were under 17.5 which clearly shows they are underweight. Purpose of this article is to show the ultra-thin ideal in a non-clinical environment.

 Source:

  Carpentier, Francesca R. Dillman. Media Psychology 11.1(2008): 143-166. Web. February 9,2010.

This article did a study on major depression disordered adolescents and also controlled adolescents. They did this study on how the media made them feel, if what they were watching made them happier or sad. And how each participant felt during out the day.

 Source  :

  Garcia, Jennifer. “Obsessed with being “Perfect.” People 73.3 (2010): 80-88. Web. February 10,2010.

This article is an actual interview with TV star Heidi Montag, which i perviously discussed in my proposal. This interview asks Heidi why she wants to keep changing her body. She states that she keeps making changing to her body because it wants to be perfect, even though most women would kill to have her body.Heidi states that she is going into a pop star world and she is competing with people like Brittany Spears, and she needs to have the perfect body. She also states that her surgeries cost up to 30,000 dollars. Heidi expresses in this interview that before she made money she was wearing LC or co-stars left over clothes and now she can afford her own and doesn’t want to stop until she believes that she is perfect. She finds that the surgeries she gets is rewarding and will keep getting surgeries as she ages.

 Source :

 Gerber, Robin. “Beauty and Body Images in the Media”. Media Awareness Network. February 8, 2010 http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm.

This article talks about the effects the media has on beauty and body image, stating that girls young as 5 and 6 are trying to take control of their weight by dieting, or even vomiting.  Also stating that women that don’t feel as beautiful as the models or celebrities will go to extremes and buy more beauty products, cosmetic products and even diet control products. The diet industry is said to be worth 40 to 100 billion dollars, and even after using your product 95% of people gain it back. This article also talks about the culture of thinness and how magazines have have ten and 1/2 more time ads promoting weight loss. An interesting fact that i found in this article was that, Researchers generating a computer model of a woman with Barbie-doll proportions, for example, found that her back would be too weak to support the weight of her upper body, and her body would be too narrow to contain more than half a liver and a few centimeters of bowel.

 Source :

  Gerber, Charlotte. “The Effects Media Has on Teenagers Body Image”. LovetoKnow Teens. February 8, 2010 http://teens.lovetoknow.com/The_Effects_Media_Has_on_Teenagers_Body_Image.

Talks about how magazines and t.v have an huge influence on us and making us want to look like hollywood glamour girls or men, with tiny bodies or big muscles. Also how dieting is portrayed and how the media tore apart jennifer love-hewitt for wearing a bikini when her size 2 body wasn’t in the best shape of her life but still very slim and slender. This article also mentions how thousands of boys and girls fall to eating disorders every year because of wanted to look like hollywood glamour, some even end in death, cancer also tooth and hair loss. and interesting fact stated in this article is that the average american women is a size 16!

Source :

Goodchild, Sophie. “Dying to be Thin”. AlterNet. February 15, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/44526/.

This source is very interesting due to the fact that it talks about the government and how they are focusing on over- weight and obese people which only puts weight loss and diet ads in the media. Also with the government focusing more on obese people more funding is going to organizations focusing on that and letting eating disorders just fall in the dust. Eating Disorders now affect more then 1 and every 100 girl. An interesting fact that i read with this article was the fact that it stated eating disorders may not be triggered by skinny models but may prolong the process of getting better and trying to get help.

Source :

 Jane, Tina. “Summer 2009 Fashion Trend: Depression Chic”. Articlesbase. February 15, 2010 http://www.articlesbase.com/fashion-articles/springsummer-2009-fashion-trend-depression-chic-852436.html.

This little article states that in spring/summer 2009 the fashion trend that was in was called the “depression Chic” it was dressed with ripped jeans, with  a wrinkled top and a broken in replica handbag. This is and was actually one very popular trend with the economy being down. With this trend it did help out with buying clothes because the trend that was in was so not expensive looking you could find clothes at the salvation army. ( little article)\

Source :

Joel Grossbard. “Body image Concerns and Contingent Self-esteem in Male and Female college Students.Sex Roles 60. 3/4 (2009): 198-207 Web. February 22, 2010

This article does a study on college students both male and female on the importance of their body image. Talks about what type of methods female college students may use to lose the weight, a couple examples may be laxatives, self-inducing vomitting, eating disorders, also excessive exercise.

Source :

 Manohar, Uttara. “Media Effects on Teenagers”. Buzzle.com. February 12, 2010 http://www.buzzle.com/articles/media-effects-on-teenagers.html.

This article gives me two examples of media effects, gives me the negative effect and the positive. Good things that media does for teenagers is gives them insight to their surroundings. Also gives awareness to problems going on in the world today like teen pregnancy, murder, school shootings, lets teenagers know what is going on in the world and how to prevent bad situations. Some negative effects are the body image being shown and how females should be skinny and have tone bodies. Some other negative effects are the way they show drug abuse, unprotected sex and alcohol.

Source :

Nabi, Robin. “Comestic Surgery Makeover programs and intentions to undergo Cosmetic Enhancements: a consideration of three models of media effects.” Human Communication Research 35.1(2004): 1-27.   Communication & Mass media complete. Web. February 13, 2010.

This journal talks about how the media is affecting our decision with performing plastic surgery on our bodies. In the first paragraph it gives a statistic about how much percentage plastic surgery has gone up. This article as states how now more then ever there are more make- over shows like The Swan, Extreme Make-over,etc. This article also ties in with eating disorders, and how the media affects people in that way. It states that 1 in every 5 plastic surgeries in 2004 were cosmetic surgeries. Lots of statistics with changing of the body. invasive procedures and vasive

Source :

Radford, Benjamin. “Real Problems hidden behide the Fasion Models”. Live Science. February 15, 2010 http://www.livescience.com/health/071011-bad-fashionmodels.html.

 This article talks about how in Britain Models are now required to be tested for an eating disorder. Also states that the United States may not be able to get away with this because you can not fire someone for having a diseases or for being to skinny. Also states that even if the company would screen for any eating disorders they’d be very hard to detect, because even an obese person can be malnourished. Also how models and the fashion industry are often blamed for eating disorders. An interesting fact from this article that i found was, the  real tragedy is that, because of the many myths about anorexia, much of the public’s attention is being misguided. If the money and resources spent screening fashion models went to study the real causes of anorexia instead, we would be much closer to finding effective treatments. Which is very true if they wouldn’t spend all that money which go into the process of making models beautiful or even doing touch ups on photos we would be able to help and even find a better cure for anorexia.

 Source :

  “The skinny on Models”. Current Events 106.15 (2007):7-7 Web. February 10, 2010

This article mentions a model who got so into her work she developed an eating disorder and starved herself on apples and tomatoes and in the end she died from it, She was 21 years old and weight was only 88lbs standing at 5’10. Because of deaths the Madrid fashion week association banned models with a BMI lower then 18. This article stated that more than ever fashion designers and workers are going away from super thin models and making more restrictions on weight and BMI. Many people say that models are an Unrealistic idea, and its an unattainable image. Something that really stuck out to me in this article was a quote from Ford modeling agencies, ”Ford Models Chief Executive Officer Katie Ford says that models represent a fantasy very different from the reality of America’s health problems. “The biggest problem in America is obesity. Both obesity and anorexia stem from numerous issues, and it would be impossible to attribute either to entertainment, be it film, TV, or magazines,” Ford told USA Today.”

Source number 14:

Thompson, Kevin. Heinberg, Leslie. “The media influence on Body image disturbance and eating disorders: We’ve reviled them, now can we rehabilitate them?” Journal of Social Issues 55.2 (1999): 339-353 Web. February 23, 2010

This article gives alot of information on how the media can and does effect women. It stated that the mas media may be the most potent and pervasive communicators of sociocultural standards. Also that in history we use to look at pictures of art, things that were truly unattainable to us, but now we look at pictures of women who are ari brushed and edited. This article stated that 83 percent of teenage girls spend a mean of 4.3 hours a week reading magazines and 70 percent endorse them as an important source of beauty and fitness. This article also stated that the ideal teenage girl was sescribed as being 5’7 100 pounds a size 5 with long blonde hair and blue eyes, if this girl was realistic she would have a BMI of 16 which is clearly underweight. Another interesting fact in this article was that less than 10 percent of women appearing on TV were overweight, the rest were under.