Annotated Bibliographies

Photoshop: The Perfect Lie [Video]. (2008). Retrieved March 19, 2012. From

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUb5PZHcovA.

            In this youtube video a reporter uncovers the magic of the flawlessness of women in magazines: photoshop. Photoshop is used for almost every single picture that is posted in any publication in the media in today’s society. The main purpose for using photoshopped images is so that we, as the readers can feel insecure about our own bodies to purchase the products to make us look more like the women in the magazines. This video is good for my paper because it gives actual accounts of everyday women and their view on how women are portrayed in the media. Women look at the pictures of the models and celebrities and think that they, the readers, have to try harder to live up to the expectation of the women they see. One woman actually said that when she sees an ad in the paper she thinks to herself “If everyone in these publications can look like that, then I should be able to too, in some way, shape, or form.” Another part of this video shoes Dr. Nicole Hawkins talk about pre-teens and how they feel they can never match up to the women they see because it is an impossible image of beauty. This helps support my paper thay pre-teens are affected by the medias “perfect lie.” 

"Eating Disorder Causes." Ohio State University Body Image Health Task Force. Ohio State University. 2012. Web. 19 Mar 2012. <http://ehe.osu.edu/cs/bitf/issues/eating-disorder-causes.php>.

          On this webpage the Ohio State University Health Group gives the three main causes of eating disorders: biological, socio-cultural, and psychological. Under the subcategory of socio-culture it is stated that the unattainable view of women by media is meant to oppress the average women and underdeveloped teens of many westernized countries including the United States. The media has an effect on people who have already been diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia as well as those who develop an eating disorder over time from the media. This source will help with my case that the media gives an unreachable goal of what women and teens should look like in our society. The youtube source above and this webpage work together to prove a point, which is that the media affects women and how they think of themselves. Having two sources that support one argument will hopefully make my paper more credible since two completely different sources have the same view.