Bisexual people often remain “invisible” and are frequently targets of prejudice . This article explores the beliefs people have about bisexuality and examines the role of the media in either reinforcing negative stereotypes or promoting more positive representations.
Is banning bossy enough to enact real social change? Celebrity activism and the “Ban Bossy” campaign
Recently celebrity activists such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Garner, and Sheryl Sandberg have thrown their weight behind a campaign to ban the term “bossy” to describe women (banbossy.com, #banbossy). The goal of the campaign is to encourage young women to step into leadership roles and to assert...
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The media play a critical role in modern society because they are the carriers of information about how people behave. And, the evidence from social science is clear that information about others’ behavior can have a contagious effect—leading observers to behave similarly, which can lead still more
Where do all the studies come from? Behind every headline trumpeting a new finding in psychology, you can usually find an article in a peer-reviewed psychology journal. But how reliable are these findings? This is what many scientists have recently started to wonder. Because of this, journals in...
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Understanding how trauma appears in media and impacts vulnerable communities is important for researchers from various fields to investigate. However, to begin to understand this specific type of media, we must ask not what is traumatic media but what traumatic media looks like. This article