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Makenzie Vogt
16 February 2014
Kim 6
AP Prep
Works Consulted
Abramson, Elise. "Barbie Brains: The Effect of Girl's Perception of Male and Female Jobs."
http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu .21 May 2009. Web. 11 January 2014.
Abramson's piece on how Barbie's effect a girls perception is a secondary source.
At the time of the papers creation in 2009, Abramson was a student at Oregon State
University Honors College and was working to meet requirements for the degree of
Honors Baccalaureate of Science in Buisness and Psychlogy. This source is valuable only
because it has some background information on the Barbie doll. Otherwise, the source is
of no value to me because it covers how the Barbie effects a girls perception of male and
female jobs not how it affects a girls self image.
Achtenberg, Benjie. "Mass Media and Its Influence on the Adolescent Mind."
http://www.macalester.edu .2006. Web. 9 January 2014.
Achtenberg's, a student at Macalester College, writing on the media's influence on
an adolescent mind is a secondary source. This fifteen page source is a research paper
that covers the exact same topic of research that I am. Within the source there are
different types of research questions that can be turned into a thesis, as well as,
information covering each one. i may consider using one of the research questions to
construct my thesis.
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Chernoff, Eva Florenco. "Beauty and the Body Image: The Media and its Negative Effect on
Body Image." http://www.personal.psu.edu .27 November 2009. Web. 9 January 2014.
Chernoff's, a student at Penn State, piece on beauty and body image is secondary
source. Overall, this source is not useful because it is a blog post, meaning there is a
much more noticeable bias. There is one small statistic that I may consider using from the
source, other than that, the source will not be used in my final paper.
Chojnacki, Mary-Signe. Christina Grant, Kaite Regan, and Kathryn Maquire. "Depleting Body
Image: The effects of female magazine models on the self-esteem and body image of
college-age women." http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jpiliavi/357/body-image.htm .Web. 9
January 2014.
This paper, written in collaboration by four college students, is a secondary
source. This source doesn't have much value, except for the fact that is has three sessions
worth of interviews with girls, as well as, analysis to go along with each interview. I can
use these interviews in my paper as proof that the media affects a girls self image.
Croll, Jillian. "Body Image and Adolescents." http://www.epi.umn.edu .Web. 9 January 2014.
A professor at the University of Minnesota with her Ph. D in Food Science in
Nutrition, Croll's piece on body image for chapter thirteen of her book, "Guidelines for
adolescent Nutrition a Services," is a secondary source. This source is very valuable
because within the source there is information on every aspect of my research paper. I
will use the information from the charts and survey's in my final paper.
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Katzman, Debra K, and Anne M. Morris. "The impact of the media on eating disorders in
children and adolescents." http://www.ncbo.nih.gov .May-June 2003. Web. 11 January
2014.
Katzman and Morris, both from Toronto, Ontario and a part of the Department of
Paediatrics and Psychiatry, came together to write a secondary piece on the impact of
media on eating disorders. This source is useful for multiple reasons, the first being that it
lists the different types of media exposure, and the second being the media's control over
eating behaviors.
Kuther, Tara L., and Erin McDonald. "Early Adolescents' Experience's with, and views of,
Barbie." http://www.public.asu.edu .Web. 9 January 2014.
Kuther and McDonalds's worked together out of San Diego to create an academic
journal on adolescents experiences with Barbies. This source is very useful because it is
an entire paper on one of the topic I am using to prove my thesis. The paper includes
surveys and studies about the effect a Barbie doll has on girls.
Margit, and Anika. "Media and Body Image." http://www.smith.edu .Web. 9 January 2014.
Margit and Anika's information on the media and body image is a secondary
source. Even though it is secondary information, with the writers of the piece being
sixteen and seventeen years of age, there is a possibility that they are not only writing
using research, but also prior experience. This source, as small as it is, is useful because it
is one of the only sources that I came across in my research that has some information on
models. The other thing that I like about this source is that it's written by younger girls, so
they are more likely to understand the pressures that the media causes.
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Michaelides, Alyssa. "Hidden Messages: Advertising and the Message They Send to Society
about Women." http://commons.emich.edu .2005. Web. 6 January 2014.
Michaelides' paper on the types of messages that advertising sends is a secondary
source. At the time of the papers creation, Michaelides was a senior at Eastern Michigan
writing her senior honors thesis for digital commons. This twenty-three page research
paper discusses how the types of messages that are sent through advertising. This will be
useful when writing my paper because I can use the entire source as a reference to
elaborate on one of the main ways the media affects us.
Romo, Samantha. "As body image issues grow in society, be aware of media's influence."
http://cw.ua.edu .7 March 2012. Web. 9 January 2014.
Romo's article on being aware that media has an influence on body image issues,
is a secondary source. At the time that the article was published, Romo was a sophomore
at the University of Alabama writing for the opinion column of the Crimson White. This
source will be useful in constructing my paper because it provides me with multiple
examples of how the media affects girls in general.
Serdar, Kasey L. "Female Body Image and the Mass Media: Perspectives on How Women
Internalize the a Ideal Beauty Standard." http://www.westminstercollege.edu .Web. 6
January 2014.
Serdar's essay on how women internalize the ideal beauty standard, is a secondary
source. Serdar was a student at Westminster College in Salt Lake City Utah who was
working toward earning her B.S in Psychology. This source is one of the most valuable
websites that I same across in my research. The website contains not only an abundance
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of information on my topic, but it also separates it into categories such as "Female Body
Image" and " Images of Women in the Media."
Signorielli, Nancy. "Body Image and Nutrition: Fast Facts." http://depts.washington.edu .Web. 6
January 2014.
Signorielli's fast facts on body image and nutrition are secondary sources.
Signorielli's research for these facts were done during the fifteen years she served as the
Research Administrator at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of
Pennsylvania. This source has a large quantity of statistics on topics of popular media, as
well as, eating disorders. These statistics will be very useful for showing the severity of
the situation.
Starr, Denise. "How Toys Teach Children Stereotypical Gender Roles: A Look Inside a Local Toy
Store." http://www.unc.edu .Web. 9 January 2014.
Starr's, a freshmen at North Carolina State University, written piece about what
stereotypical gender roles toys teach children is a secondary source. This source has a
wide range of toys that it focuses on throughout the paper, however the same portion on
the Barbie dolls is the only thing of value to me.
Smith, Erica. "Anorexia Nervosa: When Food Is the Enemy." 1999. Print. 12 January 2014.
Smith's book on anorexia is a secondary source. Although the book contained a
lot of information that did not pertain to my research topic, I was able to extrapolate some
information that was of value to me. When writing my research paper I will be using the
information I found on what anorexia is, along with other eating disorders, and how
society's impact on them.
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Stonebridge, Victoria Lynn. "Thinspiration: New Media's Influence on girls with eating
disorders." http://dspace.rowan.edu .3 May 2011. Web. 9 January 2014.
Stonebridge's essay on the media's influence on girls with eating disorders is a
secondary source. At the time of the papers creation, Stonebridge was a student at Rowan
University in the Department of Public Relations. She was working to meet the
requirements to earn a degree of Masters of Arts in Public Relations. This fifty-three page
source covers way more information than what is needed for what I am researching.
However, the source does contain small bits of information about how social media can
cause a chain reaction with girls. The source does have the potential to be useful, so long
as I can work the information into my paper.
Weeldreyer, Laura. "Body Blues: Weight and Depression." 1998. Print. 12 January 2014.
Weeldreyer's, a former teacher, book on weight and depression is a secondary
source. Since publishing the book, the author has been working on public schools reform
at a nonprofit organization in Baltimore. Although the book in its entirety wasn't useful
for me, there were small sections of the book that contained valuable information. Those
sections included what body image and self-esteem is, cultural influences, and the truth
about weight charts. When constructing the research paper, information from the sections
listed above will be included.

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