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Girls Investigate: Is the Media a Mirror?

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Girls Investigate: Our Portrayal…Chic or Sham?
by Culley Schultz

The typical American watches four hours of TV and is exposed to 247 commercial messages each day.  This includes print ads, commercials, and billboards.  The life expectancy of an American woman is 80.4 years.  This means that the average American woman will be [...]

Girls Investigate: From Face to Facebook

 
 
Girls Investigate: Social Media’s Merits & Minuses
By Nadia Tareen
 
Imagine – the typical teenage girl of 2010. Her fingers are tapping away on the keyboard of her cell phone, her eyes are feverishly glued to the screen. Sure, stereotypes are unreliable and sweeping, but in this case, I can attest that it is somewhat valid. My [...]

Watch WMC Video Highlights from this Fall!

WMC Video Highlights – Fall 2009. Check out the launch of our Girls Investigate program, new radio show on WBAI, Not Under The Bus and Stop Stupak campaigns, and recent PWV media clips!

Women’s Media Center and Girls Learn International®, Inc. Launch Investigative Media Series

November 19, 2009 (New York, NY) – The Women’s Media Center (WMC), a leading media advocacy and training organization, in collaboration Girls Learn International®, Inc. (GLI), announces the launch of Girls Investigate: Our Views on Media, a four-part multimedia series that explores girls’ ideas about popular culture, social media and the intersections between the two.
Girls [...]

Girls Investigate: Pop Culture Problems & Social Media Snags, by Julia Lo

Before I began a formal investigation into girls’ views on pop culture and social media, I had a pretty good hunch of what my peers had to say on the matter.  Yes, those girls on TV are too beautiful, yes, they don’t look like us, yes, we work hard on our Facebook ‘About Me’s’, yes, [...]