Preliminary notice. Save this date: Sydney, March 19, 2010
The Australian Council on Children and the Mediaand the Children and Families Research Centre,Macquarie University present:
Growing up fast and furious:Reviewing the impacts of violent and sexualised media on children
Saturday 19 March 2010, 9am - 5pm
NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre37 Reservoir Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
An Australian Conference on Children and the Media, with international researchers, Prof Rowell Huesmann (long term impacts of violent media) , Prof Ed Donnerstein (Internet violence and cyber-bullying) , Distinguished Prof Craig Anderson (violent video games), and Prof Louise Newman (Victoria, sexualisation of children), Dr Wayne Warburton (NSW, violent music videos), Dr Cordelia Fine (Victoria, advertising) and Prof Elizabeth Handsley (SA, regulation and classification).
In this important and timely conference leading researchers will review the evidence related to children’s experiences with a range of violent and sexualised media, examine their marketing, and discuss appropriate regulatory responses, including how well our classification systems reflect current research.
Don’t miss this unprecedented opportunity to see several of the world’s leading researchers on children and the media speaking together in Australia.
This certainly looks good to me. Hope to see you there.
Showing posts with label sexualisation of children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexualisation of children. Show all posts
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
What's Happening to our Girls
What's Happening to our Girls - by Maggie Hamilton.
This book is really fantatstic. It is in the SHineSa library and I reckon we should all read it.
Here is a quote just from the introduction.
"The book starts with baby girls, because advetisers are now actively targeting babies. They know that at 6 months a baby is able to retain brand logos, and that the trademarked characters on babies clothing and thier environment will translate into sales from the age of 2 upwards.This early process of turning girls into consumers reduces them to little more thajn target markets and had a dramatic and detrimintal impact on thier aspirations, body image and sense of self".
I dont kinow about you but this frightens and angers me - please have a read.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Even Olympiads aren't safe
Yes - yet another example of sports people (Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan) being sexualised (with a particular focus on Stephanie of course) and run through the marketing machine - for under wear!
Here's what news.com have written on their website this morning;
Stung by a raunchy Facebook photo scandal in March where she appeared dressed in a revealing police woman uniform, Rice said the Davenport advertisements would be tasteful even though the pair would appear only in their undies.
“The one thing I wanted to make sure was that I wasn’t at all sleazy and I wanted to be portrayed in the right light,” she said.
Media buyer Harold Mitchell said the world-recording breaking pair could turn gold into cold hard cash if they succeed at the August Games.
“We all adore a love story and if this union can survive, they’ll make millions,” he told News Limited's Beijing Now website.
Adore a love story hey! Give me a break!!
At least they are honest about their intentions - HARD CASH for all parties concerned.
The full story can be read here
Chris.
Monday, June 30, 2008
sexualisation of children
If you haven't been following the debate on sexualisation of children in contemporary media in Australia you may want to go here to see the senate report released June 26 2008. Or go here to jump straight to the recommendations.
This is an important debate particularly since one of the recommendations is the provision of comprehensive sexual health and relationshiups education for ALL australian children.
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NYDC Beauty Editor: Making thin lips look fuller is one of the easiest beauty problems to solve; the right makeup can work wonders on your pout. Tell us how you get soft, kissable lips. We want to know!!! ( advertisement from the 'Dolly Beauty Blog from Dolly online magazine) - I believe this type of blog/advertising/comment adds to the sexualisation of children as Dolly is directed at teens-and read by girls much younger - Lud)
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As an example here is an extract from Section 3: Effects of premature sexualisation of children:
Harms associated with sexualising and objectifying images
Body image and self-esteem
3.31 The committee received a considerable amount of evidence claiming that there is:
...[a] connection between the inappropriate sexualising of children and measurable harm, such as body image dissatisfaction, eating disorders, low self-esteem, poorer academic performance, depression and anxiety.[32]
3.32 The WFA, citing the APA report on the sexualisation of girls, submitted:
...exposure to ideals of sexual attractiveness contributes to body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders...[Sexualisation] was linked with three of the most common mental health problems in girls and women: eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression or depressed mood.[33]
3.33 Ms Melinda Tankard Reist, Director, WFA, offered the following statistics on rates of eating disorders amongst Australian girls:
...we know that one in 100 adolescent girls in Australia develops anorexia, which is the third most common chronic illness for adolescent girls in Australia and the most fatal of all psychiatric illnesses. We know that one in five are bulimic...A study published late last year found that one in five girls aged 12 and 13 regularly uses fasting and vomiting to lose weight and that fasting was the most widely practised diet technique for girls aged 12 to 19.[34]
3.34 WFA believed that this was connected to the 'overemphasis of hyper-sexualised imagery of girls and women that makes young women feel particularly bad about themselves'.[35]
3.35 Ms Gordon reported that, in her experience as a practising psychologist, she had observed increasingly younger children presenting with body-image and self-esteem disorders, which she felt was the consequences of their 'overt sexualisation':
I see girls younger and younger becoming depressed. We see girls younger and younger being hospitalised with eating disorders and with concerns about their body and their self-esteem.[36]
3.36 Professor Elizabeth Handsley, Vice President, Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM), explained that, apart from the greater general exposure of children to sexual imagery, ACCM was most concerned about the potential harms arising from 'how children are represented to themselves'. She explained:
We look around and we see images of children that are sexualised, not in the sense that they make children into sexual objects in the normal sense, but more that they associate children with the trappings of adult sexuality. So they do not necessarily make children sexual objects but they engender a self-image within children that is associated with sexual objectification.[37]
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One more by me : How is this article from online cosmopolitan
"Miley 'regrets' topless photos But they've made her 'more relatable'
Miley Cyrus has spoken up about that topless photo, saying that the scandal has made her 'more relatable.'The 15-year-ol star of Hannah Montana appeared in Vanity Fair in march, topless but for a bedsheet covering her."I was embarrassed," Cyrus told Billboard magazine. "But it's also like, every career thing that I do can't be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong. I think that just makes me more relatable."Cyrus admits that she regrets taking the photos."
This is an important debate particularly since one of the recommendations is the provision of comprehensive sexual health and relationshiups education for ALL australian children.
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NYDC Beauty Editor: Making thin lips look fuller is one of the easiest beauty problems to solve; the right makeup can work wonders on your pout. Tell us how you get soft, kissable lips. We want to know!!! ( advertisement from the 'Dolly Beauty Blog from Dolly online magazine) - I believe this type of blog/advertising/comment adds to the sexualisation of children as Dolly is directed at teens-and read by girls much younger - Lud)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
As an example here is an extract from Section 3: Effects of premature sexualisation of children:
Harms associated with sexualising and objectifying images
Body image and self-esteem
3.31 The committee received a considerable amount of evidence claiming that there is:
...[a] connection between the inappropriate sexualising of children and measurable harm, such as body image dissatisfaction, eating disorders, low self-esteem, poorer academic performance, depression and anxiety.[32]
3.32 The WFA, citing the APA report on the sexualisation of girls, submitted:
...exposure to ideals of sexual attractiveness contributes to body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders...[Sexualisation] was linked with three of the most common mental health problems in girls and women: eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression or depressed mood.[33]
3.33 Ms Melinda Tankard Reist, Director, WFA, offered the following statistics on rates of eating disorders amongst Australian girls:
...we know that one in 100 adolescent girls in Australia develops anorexia, which is the third most common chronic illness for adolescent girls in Australia and the most fatal of all psychiatric illnesses. We know that one in five are bulimic...A study published late last year found that one in five girls aged 12 and 13 regularly uses fasting and vomiting to lose weight and that fasting was the most widely practised diet technique for girls aged 12 to 19.[34]
3.34 WFA believed that this was connected to the 'overemphasis of hyper-sexualised imagery of girls and women that makes young women feel particularly bad about themselves'.[35]
3.35 Ms Gordon reported that, in her experience as a practising psychologist, she had observed increasingly younger children presenting with body-image and self-esteem disorders, which she felt was the consequences of their 'overt sexualisation':
I see girls younger and younger becoming depressed. We see girls younger and younger being hospitalised with eating disorders and with concerns about their body and their self-esteem.[36]
3.36 Professor Elizabeth Handsley, Vice President, Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM), explained that, apart from the greater general exposure of children to sexual imagery, ACCM was most concerned about the potential harms arising from 'how children are represented to themselves'. She explained:
We look around and we see images of children that are sexualised, not in the sense that they make children into sexual objects in the normal sense, but more that they associate children with the trappings of adult sexuality. So they do not necessarily make children sexual objects but they engender a self-image within children that is associated with sexual objectification.[37]
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One more by me : How is this article from online cosmopolitan
"Miley 'regrets' topless photos But they've made her 'more relatable'
Miley Cyrus has spoken up about that topless photo, saying that the scandal has made her 'more relatable.'The 15-year-ol star of Hannah Montana appeared in Vanity Fair in march, topless but for a bedsheet covering her."I was embarrassed," Cyrus told Billboard magazine. "But it's also like, every career thing that I do can't be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong. I think that just makes me more relatable."Cyrus admits that she regrets taking the photos."
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