The feedback that I got on my proof of concept mainly surrounded adding audio and specifying visuals. For visuals, slowing down and letting viewers grasp the theories and ideas I am saying, and adding more b-roll to slow down the visuals and not overwhelm viewers. For sound design, I got feedback suggesting that I don’t …
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Filters to Normalization of Hyperreal Versions of Self
This article reviews research on how social media beauty filters affect adolescent girls’ body image and further their psychological well-being. Filters that specifically smooth skin, make eyes bigger, slim faces, and other attributes, combined with other filters that modify bodies to create a slim waist, are popular among girls who are concerned with their appearance. …
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Barbies to Stereotypes
This author talks about how certain toys and advertisements can communicate specific gendered messages to the children playing with them. Barbie dolls as an example, teach young girls what femininity is “supposed” to look like, and they are trained from a young age to appeal to those definitions. These toys don’t just reflect societal norms …
Digital Filters, Apps, and the Media’s Perpetuation of Hyperreal Standards of Beauty
The article by Alava and Chauoni explains how social media can foster unrealistic expectations that lead to societal pressure about looks for young girls. Through beauty standards promoted by influencer culture through modes like filters and photo editing, it normalizes young girls to negative comparison that can affect their self-esteem and body satisfaction. Filters and …
Research Progress within the Hyperreal
About a week ago, I was nervous about how my research progress was going based on the timeline I set for myself earlier in the semester. However, as of this week, I have almost completed my committee completed, which was a huge milestone for me. I have my chair and one committee member, and my …
Social Learning Theory and Hyperreality
This source is channeling the Social Learning Theory. This is important because it shows how people, especially young children, learn behaviors that may include attitudes or norms/values, and it argues that they do this by observing others in their environment. Another way they can learn this is through social settings and norms set up through …
Digital Algorithm to Beauty Standards
This week, I read Algorithmic Beauty: The New Beauty Standard by Huang and Fabi. It relates heavily to my topic for my MA project, as filters and modification apps due to a new beauty standard from digital media are what my entire project is about. This entire article is about explaining the rise in algorithmic …
Toys and Images as Spectacle: Replacing the Real
This week, I read The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. This is a very important read for my MA project. This source talks about how all that was once lived has become a representation of something further meaningful, usually some sort of social relation. Since long before digital media, we have stopped living …
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Toys to Filters: Perpetuating Hyperreality
Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard explains how certain media artifacts can replace the original meaning of an artifact and alter it, such that the real is no longer the real; “A new morphogenesis has appeared,which comes from the cybernetic kind (that is to say, reproducing at the level of the territory, of the home, of …
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Showing Media Artifacts Through Documentary Production
I recently watched a new documentary on Netflix called Unknown Number: The High School Catfish. It is very different from what I am doing topic-wise, but style-wise, it is very similar. Some things that are similar to my project that I need to address for my own project style are: the way content is shown …
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