“During the season, I dodge the media. After practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.” NeedsBodyCarePracticeMediaSeasonsNflRecoveringDodge Author:Calvin Johnson
“Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.” FeelsWarBodySocialWatchesCreativityViolenceMediaTelevisionNewsAwakeningNewspapersNervousSensitiveConsideringBreakthroughDissentBreakdownFiltersNervous SystemTelevision NewsNewsworthy Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
“[Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsCharacterBodyKnow HowRichImagineMediaComplicatedYour BodyDo You KnowRepresentationConveyingComplicated Things Author:Kalan Sherrard
“Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.” FeelsMadeBodyBeautifulMediaWorthyNot Worthy Author:Shantel VanSanten
“But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.” BodyCultureMediaElementsNewsWorthyYour BodyCosmicItemsCoverageNot WorthyPredetermined Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.” WorldMatterBodyBeautifulSocialRealizingWorryMediaPleaseUglySocial MediaFatsBeautiful You Author:Demi Lovato
“My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.” DifferentUseBodyJobsArtistDealsMediaOur Society Author:Orlan
“In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.” IfsKindStillsRealFeelingsBodyBigsAbleBeautifulWalksMediaTvsUniqueEverydayHonestlyFatsRepresentationEveryday Life Author:Kether Donohue
“Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.” Has BeensBodyBlackMediaBlack Women Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring. Don't have photographs of the killer. Don't make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero. Do localize the story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.” IfsWantYearsKindTwoStoriesBodyCommunityWeekMediaHeroMassMurderPhotographBoringIntenseAffectedKillersCan NotCoverageCnnSirensSaturationAnti Hero Author:Park Dietz
“An 11 year old sister has been taught by the media that her body is an object, will be compared to other bodies, and that it holds more significance than her mind or talent. This should not be the first thing she learns. This should not be her first social experience.” ShouldYearsMindFirstsHas BeensBodySocialTalentMediaObjectsTaughtSignificance Author:Rowan Blanchard
“I had known David Ham and Marco Santiago from having met and worked with them on The Cross and the Switchblade which we worked on together at Times Square Church. We joined together as Trace Life Media to be a directing/producing team to be able to assist churches in the production of a play in their own community or to bring a fully-produced productions - something that will be ministering to the Body of Christ.” PlayBodyAbleTogetherChristCommunityChurchKnownTeamMediaMetsCrossesProductionsSquaresHamMarcosBody Of ChristTimes SquareSantiago Author:Patricia Mauceri
“Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.” BodyBigsSocialResultsTalkingTakenMediaCompetitionSocial MediaFrustratingBody ImageSurfingSpiralsBikinisDownward Spiral Author:Coco Ho
“We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly.” WorldMatterBodyMediaShapesYour BodySillyAttractive Author:Guy Branum