Progress on My Annotation

So far, I have only summarized two of my sources for my annotated bibliography. They are listed below.


1. Almond, S. "A11. The Influence of the Media on Eating Disorders." Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics 13.5 (Oct. 2000): 367-368. Academic Search Complete. Web. 24 Sep. 2009

In this short article, Almond talks about the “ideal” body image that is portrayed in the media today, particularly advertisements, and their negative effects on women. He stated that by constantly viewing this ideal body image that women obtain dissatisfaction with their own bodies, in some cases these negative emotions cause disturbed eating patterns. This article will be good for me to use because it directly correlates the media with disturbed eating.

2. Tiggermann, Marika, and Amanda S. Pickering. "Role of Television in Adolescent Women's Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness." International Journal of Eating Disorders 20.2 (Sep. 1996): 199-203. Academic Search Complete. Web. 24 Sep. 2009

This article talked about a study performed on 11 year-old girls in Australia. They administered questionnaires with questions pertaining to how much and what types of television shows they watched, and, their overall body confidence and drive for thinness. Surprisingly, the amount of television posed no results to have a positive correlation of number of hours watched and ranked lowness of self-esteem. What they did find out though was that the types of shows that the girls watched, particularly music videos, had a very high correlation of number of hours watched per week to lowness of self-esteem. This article is great for me to use because it provides me with evidence suggested from a real study performed on girls and will allow me to use statistics in my paper.