Digital Story Final: FYS

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Anotated bibliography DS project

http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/587/the-medias-sexualization-of-female-athletes-a-bad-call-for-the-modern-game

Media sexaulization of female athletes:
Female athletes do not have the luxury of being primarily portrayed as performance athletes, as coverage of their beauty and sex appeal usually over-shadow highlights of their on-field accomplishments.  "Women first, athlete 2nd" is the generally view on female athletes by their clothes and poses in magazines and commercials. While sexualizing female athletes and encouraging them to prioritize sex appeal over strength.  Changes the athletes achievements and self-esteem. The American public has not deemed women's sports on par with men's sports, female athletes have had to embrace the media's sexualization to emphasize their femininity and gain publicity and money.

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2014/09/time-to-bench-discrimination/
Time to bench discrimination:
No matter how talented an athlete they are, they will be met with sexist and racist sports coverage. These athletes deserve the same attention and dignity given to white male athletes, and it seems that this will only happen once sports networks and newspapers begin to hire more people of color and women as commentators, anchors, and journalists. As it currently stands, white men make up a large portion of the mainstream media, and so the coverage is tailored to what they deem to be ‘legitimate’ sports. Unfortunately, female athletes are seen as less legitimate.

http://www.feminist.org/research/sports/sports5a.html

Women Athletes in the Media:

Both female athletes and reporters have yet to achieve parity with men in the media. In terms of coverage, women athletes are almost invisible. In 1993, only 5% of televised sports news covered women's sports - virtually the same percentage as in 1989.30 In print media, a study of four major newspapers found that fewer than 5% of all sports stories were devoted to women only.

 

http://www.sportsmanagementresources.com/library/media-coverage-womens-sports

Media coverage of women's sports is important:

The media shapes the public's perceptions of the accomplishments of women playing sports and whether women in general can be strong, confident and highly skilled. The media also shapes the dreams and aspirations of girls. Boys grow up watching television, bombarded by heroic and confident images of themselves playing sports and being revered for their accomplishments. They know they are expected to play sports and are encouraged to do so by everyone around them. Girls do not receive these messages.

Television carriage is also a critical ingredient for the success of professional women's sports and competitive professional sport salaries and purses. If women's pro sports cannot tap into big advertising dollars, athlete salaries and purses will continue to be depressed and the financial success of women's pro leagues and tours will be more difficult to achieve.

 

 

Digital Story Proposal: Discrimination of Female Athletes in the media

For my Digital Story project, I would like to spread awareness on the discrimination of female athletes in the media.  Female athletes are not shown near the same recognition in the media as men are as professional athletes, or even college athletes.  When tuning into the sports section of the news or even on ESPN, it is very rarely that you see the stories being covered involving women sports.  It is no secret that women sports are not shown equally on television, or in a source of social media, although there seems to be no sense of change for the issue anytime soon.   40% of sport and physical activity participants are women, but on 6%-8% of total media sports coverage is devoted to women sports.  Also out of the four major newspapers (USA today, Boston Globe, Orange County Register, and the Dallas Morning News) only 3.5% of all sports stories are about only women.  Another issue dealing with Female athletes and social media is that female athletes do not have the luxury of being primarily portrayed as performance athletes, as coverage of their beauty and sex appeal usually over-shadow highlights of their on-field accomplishments. Although these newspapers, and television channels are simply giving the viewers what they want.  The targeted viewers of these channels and of sport sections in social media, are male and these men are looking for strength and impressive talent in sports, which is best shown by male athletes.  The perception of the role of women is perhaps largely to blame. Women are still seen more in the role or spectators, cheerleaders, supportive wives and mothers than for any athletic abilities they may possess. Commercial and advertisements tend to emphasize this and dwell on physical attributes and other factors rather than talent.  Women are generally viewed as “women first, and female second”, by their clothes and poses in magazines and commercials.  Media is not only degrading the athlete’s accomplishments and self- esteem, but also alienate viewers and impede the feminist movement.  Media’s sexulization does grant female athletes more publicity by concentrating on sex appeal instead athleticism and skill.   The media also generally tries to target male viewers with their sexualization of female athletes, but through objectifying women, the media ultimately fails to engage men in women’s sports.  The American public has not deemed women’s sports on par with men’s sports, and female athletes have had to embrace the media’s sexualization to emphasize their femininity and gain publicity and money. “Female athletes in the United States have historically faced resistance, even outright hostility, for mot confining themselves to ‘feminine’ activities” was a statement made by The Harvard Law Review in 1997.  The change of view on female athletes by the American public, would be the next necessary step in order to gain recognition and respect for female athletes in our country. 

 

 

Sources:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/247625-gender-discrimination-in-sports/

http://www.womenslawproject.org/NewPages/hrAthletics_Discrim.html

mahidachintan.com/documents/Dec-2012/1201.pdf

http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/587/the-medias-sexualization-of-female-athletes-a-bad-call-for-the-modern-game

 

 

Digital Story: Gender Codes

For this digital story, my group and I focused and female roles in the tv/movie industry.  We discuss the stereotypical roles that female tend to play, the small amount of recognition for female directs, and finally we discussed the Bechtel test.  Our digital story presents many shocking information on women in the film industry

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Human Trafficking 2.0

what is human trafficking? Human trafficking Is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.   Human trafficking is the second largest illegal enterprise in the world. Drugs of course are still number one. The international Labor Organization estimates that 12.3 million people around the world are involved in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor and sexual servitude. Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world. Annually, the money illegally acquired through human trafficking is estimated to be more than $35 billion, which equals the profits earned by Starbucks, Google and Nike combined Many do not see human trafficking as a big issue here in the United States, but that is mainly because most of the them are uneducated on the issue. Even here in Ohio, human trafficking is a problem that needs to be stopped immediately.  There seems to be that human trafficking is a much greater issue in Ohio than many people would believe.  There are many different statistic numbers reflecting the effect of human trafficking her in Ohio. In a recent study estimates that 3,437 foreign born persons in Ohio may be at risk for both labor and sex trade trafficking, 783 of which are estimated to be trafficked into the labor or sex trade in Ohio.  Governor Kasich, is committed to stop human trafficking here in Ohio.  Each year there is an estimated 1,078 Ohio children become victims of human trafficking and 3,016 more are at-risk.  If you ask an average young-adult American what human trafficking is, most likely the individual thinks back to the move "Taken".  Which the movie shows human trafficking in foreign countries, and individual does not see that happening in America.  The movie or "Social media" that is about human trafficking does not represent the truth behind it and that needs to be changed. This movie also portrays the idea that human trafficking only effects Women, which is very far from the truth.  At least 95% of all commercial sex engaged in boys is provided to adult males. Approximately half of the adult male sexual exploiters of boys are married men, many with children of their own.  Once I started uncovering the truth behind Human trafficking and seeing the statistics showing how many individuals it affects, and also the large sums of money also included in the industry, it proves the public, myself included, are very uneducated on the truth and how sever the problem is.  Human trafficking is a bigger issue then many believe and that needs to be changed soon.

http://humantrafficking.ohio.gov/
http://lisadpreston.hubpages.com/hub/Human-trafficking-in-Ohio

FYS Social Action Project:

My Social Action Project idea has to do with Animal Testing;
 

Animal testing may seem like such a small issue to some people, but to other animal lovers in the world like me, it is a big problem.  The United States of America, is one of the countries that contribute a majority of the animals testing done around the world.  Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year, and 92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don’t work.  With this information alone, it seems to be uncertain to me why animal testing has gone on for as long as it has.  We seem to be wasting animal’s lives in order to try these new products that will in the end be used for human use; while these animals and humans do not have the same genetic make-up, and are almost certain to effect each species skin and body differently.  I understand that sometimes animal testing is the best option when I comes to important medical advances, and important research for terminal diseases such as Cancer. While limiting the use of animals testing, we are able to end the madness of wasting the animal’s life and health on products such as make-up, and hair supplies.  Another idea that came out of researching this topic was that we can relax the rules and regulations in order for a human to test a certain medicine that could save their life.  For example, if a medication that is possible to cure for cancer, and a patient that has the same type of cancer in a severe form, may be willing to give it a try.  In turn that will cut time in between experimenting on the animals and then continuing it onto test on a human.  A common saying by other campaigns that have the same beliefs on animals testing as I came up with “3 R’s:” replaces a procedure that uses animals with a procedure that doesn’t, reduces the number of animals used in a procedure, refines a procedure to alleviate or minimize potential animal pain.  Using animals to test new products isn’t the main issue I wish to stop, the pain and torture that these animals have to go through for these products is unjust and inhuman.  For my project I would like to spread awareness around the world of the severity of the issue and the effects it has on the animals.  Although my topic is basically the same as PETAS, I do not plan on spreading the knowledge like their campaign does.  By simply making a blog with pictures, posts, and more information and the detailed process of animal testing, we will be able to take major steps to more far regulations of animal testing.  PETA has more of an aggressive approach when confronting the problem directly, and instead my ad campaign will also have inviting voice, to teach the other side ways to avoid this problem.  I would also wish to add a petition onto my blog to give anyone the opportunity to support the beliefs demonstrated throughout my blog, and to help change to rules and regulations of animal testing to make it more, Animal friendly.

discussion 1: Journal of a cleaner production question

1. How does the public, and government have the ablity to have a producer change their prices, to a more reasonable price.  (example: Selling sneakers at $200, costs $20 to produce.)

2. What ways can we limit the power of the producers and give more power to the consumers?

3. The possibilities of what you CAN do with the outdated item, in a more environmentally friendly way.