Faceless: The visual representation of overweight people in Flemish and Dutch online newspapers
We conducted a quantitative visual content analysis to examine how overweight and obese people are portrayed in online newspaper photos in the Netherlands and Flanders compared to non-overweight individuals. Overall, we found that 68% of the obese/overweight people were depicted in a stigmatizing way. Their heads were more likely to be cut out of the image, they were more often dressed sloppily and more frequently portrayed with only their lower body in comparison with non-overweight people. Furthermore, overweight people were more often associated with passive behavior and portrayed as patien... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | World of Media, Iss 2, Pp 5-19 (2020) |
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Lomonosov Moscow State University. Faculty of Journalism
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Schlagwörter: | content analysis / dutch-language newspapers / obesity / overweight / stigmatization / visual representation / Communication. Mass media / P87-96 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27088918 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.30547/worldofmedia.2.2020.1 |