CMN 3104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Playboy Bunny, Reality Television, Cultivation Theory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3104
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

3. 1 women with physical disabilities, body image, media. This reading reports the results of focus groups with women who have physical disabilities. The women explored how messages from media and people around them shaped their thoughts and feelings about themselves and their bodies. When you think about your body, you are engaging in a process of self- conception, a subjective, fluid practice shaped by messages from other people and media. How people respond to you affects how you think and feel about yourself. This thinking takes place in body-conscious culture that is saturated with media images of ideal bodies. Gerbner and his colleagues have been arguing for decades that tv plays a significant role in cultivating shared reality. As reminders of what is right and as sources of cultural ideals of beauty and bodies, television circulates cultural standards that shape how we come to see ourselves.