My fourteenth blog post I will be talking about my research project. I have based my project off of the film Miss Representation. Thus far the only think I have struggled with throughout the course of the project was getting it in on time, however I have finished my first draft. I have used three sources with statistics and information about how the media is bias and can be harmful to the young girls using it. I have viewed many sources for my project to try and get an accurate representation of the statistics specifically on where social media has normalized self-harm to young women all over the world. In my research project I wrote, “In 2011, 45.9 girls per 10,000 harmed themselves, a number rose from 68 percent to 77 percent per 10,000 in 2014 (Bodkin). The number of self-harms in young females have risen dramatically throughout the years, and young girls that have social media profiles are more likely to engage in self-harming behavior do to their dissatisfaction of their bodies and appearance. People all over the world are even sharing and encouraging suicide over social media influencing young adult but more particular young women in general.” I found these particular statistics interesting because I never realized that social media had such a large impact on self-harm throughout the world. These statistics made me have a whole different aspect on what I do day to day. I spend so much time on social media it has actually become a problem, but to find out it has been encouraging and influencing people to physically harm themselves its horrible. The film Miss Representation helped me further understand all of the issues women in power have to deal with every day. In my project I talked about what Nancy Pelosi said in the film, “if they can see young women who share their experience, raising a young family, speaking for them, identifying with their aspirations. We're creating new leaders, and they're going to not look like how they always did...an older, white male. They're gonna look like a woman, and they're gonna look like people of colour, and that is the true reflection of this country and of this world (Miss Representation 2011).” It made me reflect to myself and my college major and how it may impact my life in the future but was also inspiring that she is advocating for the people of minorities, and the women of our nation. Overall, I know that I will have to revise and edit my research project, and add a few things into it over the course of the rest of the semester.
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