Outline, Rational, Abstract In Class Lab

5. As a woman of the twenty-first century, I get to live in the unique era it is: women are working, men are staying home, married couples don’t want children, and couples who aren’t married are having children. These shifts in social norms have brought many changes to how people have to view gender roles, but the media has yet to get the memo. This difference in realities is what sparked the idea for this paper.  The media uses subliminal techniques to promote the world that they want, this includes ideas of how women and men should look and act as well as their place within the family and society. My topic is thus gender roles within the media. My more narrowed topic looks at the way gender roles are presented, enforced, and the effects from it.

6. I think my topic is important because it has a huge negative on both men and women' mental health which in turns effects their physical health. I also believe this topic to be important because it is unfair of the media to oppress their set of values on unsuspecting viewers.

7.I found a lot of information on my topics and split it into three general topics. Using my annotated bibliography, I will cite one source from each of these topics to provide a general setting of information for my paper.

Grabe, Shelly and et al. “The role of the media in body image concerns among women: A                                   meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies.” Psychological Bulletin 134.3 (May                 2008):460-476.PsycARTICLES. Web. 3 Nov. 2015.
This study is going over how many different types of effects the media can cause when portraying the ideal woman. It lists 141 different mental effect out of 77 different subjects. I plan on using this to show again how much the media impact the viewer in ways that are not all positive.

Jones, Amy H. "Visual and Verbal Gender Cues In the Televised Coverage of the 2010                                          Winter Olympics."The Social Science Collection 6.2 (2010): 199-216. Academic Search                            Premier. Web. 6 Oct. 2015. 
This is a study that analyzes the visual and social cues within sports and the media. It explains how the sex of commentator, angle of the camera, wardrobe of the athletes, words and phrases used in speaking, etc., are all used to subliminally create a biased for or against a specific sex within the sport. I want to use this source to show the techniques that the media may use to create and enforce gender roles.

Wolska, Malgorzata. "Gender Stereotypes in Mass Media. Case Study: Analysis of the Gender                       Stereotyping Phenomenon in TV Commercials." .Krytyka.org. N.p., 9 Sept. 2011. Web.                           13 Oct.2015.

She argues that within everyday commercials and advertisements, women and men are cast in traditional gender roles. By placing women and men within the traditional roles, the media is telling everyone who sees them that this is the way the world should work. I plan on using this for the facts the case is analyzing.

9. Gender Roles in the media are stereotypical, are enforced through subliminal techniques and are detrimental to their viewers. 

10. My stance is that what the media is doing is wrong and unethical. I believe this because:

          I. Times have changed. What the media is presenting is out of date. 

          II. The techniques they use are not on a even playing field. 

          III. The effects of their presentations are unhealthy and have sparked federal action.