A Media Picture of Eating Disorders

My thesis concerns the subject of media presentation of eating disorders and its characteristics and evaluation in Czech press and on the Internet. The aim of my work is to uncover what information about eating disorders are available in media, to analyse their content accuracy and to detect their possible effects on the public. To examine the articles, published between January 2004 and November 2005, I chose the method of content analysis. The results have been divided into categories according to different topics, content accuracy and personal evaluations of the authors of the articles. In conclusion my thesis takes into consideration the influence of the media on the body image ideal promotion, growing dissatisfaction with body and tendency to decline the weight and to form the physique. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org