The Influence Of Quantitative And Qualitative Methods Of The Media

The article by Melissa Milkie focused a lot on finding out how the media seemed to affect black and white female students. In order to do this the author focused on two different topics which were how the media could be considered powerful and the other was how powerful we possibly are when it comes to our own interpretations of the media. Melissa used both Quantitative and Qualitative methods in her research. Her methods of research consisted of at first taking a specific sample number of girls in 9th and 10th grade and having them fill out a survey from the two schools that she was researching. Depending on the girl 's answer to the last part of the survey on if they wanted to be interviewed or not is when she gets a good number of girls to give in-depth interviews with. There wasn’t much information that was gathered from the individual

This means that once the white girls came to the conclusion that they had to look like the models to be perfect or catch the opposite sex’s attention they lowered their sense of self along with their self-esteem. The article defined self-esteem as kind of asking yourself “How good am i?” (Cahill, Sandstrom, & Froyum ,2013).and as seeing yourself more as an object and less as a person. Interestingly enough that’s exactly what the girls did they started seeing themselves as objects instead of human beings.

As a follow up study to really understand african-american and white girls self-concept being affected by media, i would do a similar research. I would start off with a quantitative method where i would select a 5 african-american and white students in three different neighborhoods. Then I would switch to a more Qualitative method where i would have them go into in-depth interviews.The neighborhoods i would choose would be culturally diverse so that i know that when each girl is shown the magazine they have an interesting perspective to provide in their