Bücher von K. Megan Hopper

This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture's focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences' perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals' relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging representations and portrayals of a diverse set of body types across the media spectrum, paving the way for future research on this topic. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and health communication will find this book particularly useful.

Challenges students to examine and analyse, as both consumers and potential creators, ethical issues in mass communication on a variety of levels. The book encourages students to think critically about the difficult choices and the ethical consequences of those choices they may encounter as mass communication professionals.