W109SS08

Research Paper Title: The Instant Celebrity: Reality television’s drive towards stardom.

Reality TV plays to individual’s desire to become and/or emulate celebrities/ celebrity lifestyles. Today many Americans have become obsessed with the celebrity culture and view reality television as a quick way to get famous.

Library Research

• An exploratory study of reality appeal: Uses and gratifications of reality TV shows.
• Flagging Finnishness: Reproducing national identity in reality television
• Narcissism and celebrity.
• Who is the celebrity in advertising? Understanding dimensions of celebrity images.
• Public information and consumer skepticism effects on celebrity endorsements: Studies among young consumers.

Internet Research

http://perezhilton.com/ -Celebrity information/gossip/blog site.
http://www.tmz.com/ -Celebrity information/gossip/blog site.
http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20040715-000004.html - Psychology Today article about the obsession with celebrity culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television - Wikipedia article about Reality Television
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=OMzCDi292OwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Celebrity+culture&ots=j8M8nrmohK&sig=b_L9sC9sf33cdaLcDQc1dqPuMcE#PPA22,M1- Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture

Edmiston, Kelly D., and Roger Zalneraitis. “Rising foreclosures in the United States: a
perfect storm.(Statistical table).” Economic Review (Kansas City) 92.4 (Fall 2007): 115(31). Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. UC Santa Barbara. 22 Apr. 2008
.

This article addresses the actual foreclosure rates in recent fiscal quarters as well as definitions of subprime mortgages and prime mortgages. The authors clearly describe the problem and gives concrete facts.

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions. New
York: The Viking Press, 1912.

This book is the primary source of Veblen’s theories because it is written by him. In it, he details his theories of conspicuous leisure, conspicuous consumptions, taste, and conservatism. This information will help me explain how the consumer society was created and how people act in it.

California. Preserving the American Dream: Homeownership Preservation and the Subprime
Mortgage Crisis: Final Report. Sacramento, CA: Senate Publications & Flags, 2007.

This is a government report which is quantitatively analyzing the Subprime situation .It addresses the rise in foreclosures and who the unintended and indirect victims are. This report also includes letters and prepared statements from government representatives and judges. Finally, it incorporates Governor Schwarzenegger’s solution proposal for reform.

http://www.radicalleft.net/blog/_archives/2008/2/8/3510454.html

this site gave me some information to help me start thinking about what aspects of porn I want to talk about. It discusses how porn makes sex into consumption. This has been aided by the mass-production of VHS and DVD players and now the internet. Now anyone can type in porn into google and get instant porn, without restrictions.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-64698519.html

This site discusses the negative side of pornography: violence towards women. Is porn more than just a sexual experience? Do men use it as a way to make themselves feel better about their sex by objectifying women? This study analyses the amount of sexual violence in porn media and develops theories. Perhaps there is more violence because consumers get bored easily and need more exciting porn. They also suggest violence towards women has turned into a currency that men compete for to become proud of themselves.

http://www.popmatters.com/columns/horning/050309.shtml

This site gave me information about consumption in general and how consumerism gave birth to a new hedonism. Consumer culture gives the illusion of control (in my case, control over sexual desires in that one can fulfill them at the click of a mouse). It also discusses porn itself "Pornography coincides with the animating principle of most contemporary advertising: "sex sells". Each extends the efficacy of the other: masturbation to porn reinforces the payoff implied in sexualized ads, which in turn promote imaginative control over objectified sex as the most epicurean of consumer pleasures. Pornography, then, is the prototype, the übercommodity, the commodity that enables all other commodities to be granted an aura of sexual appeal." This makes me think I chose a great topic!!

http://ediets.com/eDiets/jsps/diet/atkins-diet/index.jsp
This website explains the atkins diet in detail and what it does for your body and the things you can and can not eat. It explains the consequences and the positives.

http://www.southbeach-diet-plan.com/
This site explains what the southbeach diet is. It has experiences and interviews also with people who do the diets and were successful or not.

http://www.bodyandfitness.com/Information/Weightloss/fad.htm
This site explains pros and cons of fad diets and why they don’t work and are not healthy.

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=50378
This is an article from Web Md. Explaining how fad diets harm your health and leave out important nutrients.

Food: Facts, Fad, and Fancy
Natalie Van Cleve
The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Mar., 1938), pp. 285-287 (article consists of 3 pages)
Published by: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

This article is about the myths of Fads and how they seem to reveal that you can lose so much weight really fast, and in actuality you are harming your body. They explain the large generalizations that people make about certain foods and how they can be proven false.

http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1997/April/erapril.21/4_21_97Cigarette.html
This site discusses how cigarette advertising was being used to mask the dangers of cigarette smoking as early as the 1930s

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/stable/view/3106637
This article gives a brief history of the early rise of the cigarette industry and how advertising became a huge part of cigarette sales

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/action/showArticle?doi=10.2307/2489818
This article addresses the other end of cigarette advertising, anti-tobacco ads. It details a study done determining what effect anti-tobacco ads have on perceptions of smokers

As tourism industry expands and as the wealthy citizens of the Global North enjoy increased leisure time and recreation, another form of leisure activity has emerged. Sex tourism, a multibillion dollar trade that allows tourists to engage in sexual acts without fear of legal litigation from the host country or even in some cases their own. The growth of sex tourism is a factor in the growth of illegal human trafficking, especially for sexual purposes. Even more disturbingly, sex tourism has altered its image in order to appeal to a larger audience of tourists by encouraging fetishism, pedophilia and rape.
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ceos/sextour.html -US Government report on Child Sex Tourism.http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/11/02/the-shameful-truth-about-sex-tourism/ -Independent research by a travel organization
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3022 -Author's perspective on Sex Trade in the Middle-East
http://haneydaw.myweb.uga.edu/twwh/traf.html -Women's Health Page http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/2003/0326cuba.htm -World Policy Forum

For my paper I'm looking into the Apple computers culture that has developed and investigating why it has become so popular despite how expensive it is and some of it's technical flaws.
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0DHnCxjX_t8C&oi=fnd&pg=PA339&dq=Apple+Computers&ots=WXfL82gyOo&sig=fxkH1p4Cx88Uazp5RGEqOhl1MhU#PPA106,M1
- This is a book that was written about Steve Jobs (the founder of Apple computers)and "the story of a freewheeling California youth culture on a collision course with corporate America."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer
- This just has some basic information about Apple computers.

http://store.apple.com/us
-This has a list of all the current Apple products and prices.

Product Placement in Film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement

Basic overview of product placement, what it's used for, examples from various films, and how films and companies go about using it.

http://money.howstuffworks.com/product-placement.htm

More information on different kinds of product placement, how its used in certain situations, and how it's gotten to the point where some films go so far as to mock other films for having so much product placement.

Research paper topic: Female Nude portrayed as an art form or a sex icon

The Female Nude in Public Art: Constructing Women’s Sexual Identity in the Visual Arts. Mary Kenon Breazeale. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1986), pp. 56-65.

 Discusses the debate women have with the way the public portrays the female image. This debate led to questions about how the visual culture makes use of women’s bodies. The article also discusses women sculptures and when it is appropriate to have the female body unclothed. It states that the female body has a powerful erotic impact, which can be dangerous.

The Female Nude: Pornography, Art, and Sexuality. Lynda Nead. Signs, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Winter, 1990), pp. 323-335.

 This article talks about the authors viewpoints on the existence of the female nude as an art form. The female nude is a natural commodity. One of the primary goals of the female nude has been the containment and regulation of the female sexual body. Much controversy has gone on when trying to decipher the nude between pornography. The whole idea of the female body is under the act of framing. It seems to offer a certain kind of liberation; a way for women to develop their muscularity and physical strength.

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/Bollywood-4334.html

 this website is about the release of Bollywood movies. It wonders what women think about the amount of nudity on screen, and wonders if Bollywood is biased towards female nudity by portraying them as sex objects.

Topic: Gender stereotypes in television commercials contributing to product consumption.

Some of these sites provided overviews about the effects and roles of gender in advertisements and television commercials

http://www.verdant.net/society.htm - talks about the negative influence of advertisements to do consumerism. It shows different examples of advertisements and how gender roles are used to portray the products and how those images affect the consumer population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_(deodorant)#Controversy
- It gives an overview of the AXE deodorant company and the history of it as well as some aspects of the controversies the commercial has

http://www.genderads.com/

- comparison of gender stereotypes in ads

- Shows the different aspects of the roles of both women and men in advertisements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising overview of the different methods

- It gives an overview of the different methods of advertisements as well as its history of its development.

I'm thinking of researching a particular fashion brand and its evolutionary history, as well as its connection to the psyche or to the idea of social classes.

I had thought of researching either Louis Vuitton, Tom Ford (the designer by himself, as well as his work with other brands), or Burberry.

I have found a few articles to help me begin the research process:

http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/53/6/770

http://iamfashion.blogspot.com/2006/06/louis-vuitton-fw06-ads.html

http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/10/1000207.pdf

In my paper, I am going to look at the means in which advertisers appeal to children and create consumers out of even the youngest of children and the overall effect of advertising and the consumer society on the child.

The Other "Child Study": Figuring Children as Consumers in Market Research, 1910s-1990s
Author(s): Daniel Thomas Cook
Source: The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, (Summer, 2000), pp. 487-507
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4121388

This article discusses how our society creates a need for children to be individualized, and to reach this individuality in a consumer society,advertising teaches children to use merchandise as the vehicle for self-expression.

Selling to Children: Fair Play in TV Commercials
Author(s): John Culkin
Source: The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 8, No. 3, (Jun., 1978), pp. 7-9
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3560420

This articles discusses the ways in which parents are targeted as customers through their children and the controversy over playing off of childrens' naivetes to sell products.

Some Unintended Consequences of TV Advertising to Children
Author(s): Marvin E. Goldberg and Gerald J. Gorn
Source: The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, (Jun., 1978), pp. 22-29 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2488960

This article studies how advertising has created a society of dissatisfied individuals, never able to achieve the high standards set out by advertisers, which starts with the youngest of children, in this case preschoolers. Advertising gives rise to conflicts between children and parents, the decaying of social relationships in favor of materialism, and an overall lack of true happiness since despite what advertisers want you to think, material goods cannot create happiness.

Topic: The Portrayal of Women in Advertising reinforces "traditional" stereotypes and negative body image.

-Ads in magazines primarily use models who largely misrepresent society's population of women, which, in turn, reinforces bad body image and promotes an unrealistic ideal for girls and women of all ages.

-Celebrities influence standards of health and beauty but have major advantages such as excess money to afford personal chefs and trainers.

1. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2429(198804)52%3A2%3C75%3ASRIAAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
- This article compares US advertising to Mexico's and Australia's to reveal many differences in the television portrayal of the sexes. The study finds stereotypes in each country but they are conveyed in distinctly different ways.

2.http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=info:zGfTUBBvMiYJ:scholar.google.com/&output=viewport
-This article determines whether women's portrayal in tv ads has changed much in the past 15 years.

3.http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2437(197102)8%3A1%3C92%3AAWPAAO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
-This article argues that many critics believe women portray very limited and negative stereotypes within advertisements. It pays particular attention to occupational and nonworking roles of men and women. Their findings show that women are rarely depicted in working roles.

4.http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/25/8/1049
- This study examines whether tv ads portraying women as sex objects causes increased body dissatisfaction among men and women. The findings show that women exposed to sexist ads judged their body size as being larger and that there was a greater discrepancy between their actual and ideal body sizes than women exposed to nonsexist or no ad condition.

Research topic: Advertisement and Credit Cards

https://home.americanexpress.com/home/mt_personal.shtml?
This is the official American Express website that advertises the different cards they offer. I found quite interesting the number of cards and bonuses they have. My purpose is to identify how advertisement promotes credit cards.

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/blackcard.asp
The website describes the advantages of the Black American Express card. Additionally it explains privilege celebrities have using the card. I find this to be their greatest advertisement.

http://www.discovercard.com/
This card is one of my personal favorites it advertisement states, "Earn miles on all your purchases, travel with no restrictions, Redeem faster with no options, No annual fee, 0% APR on purchases and balance transfers." Personally, I own one of these and I am interested in researching on how advertisement affects young adults.

Possible Research Topic: Is one's identity connected to the type of cell phone and types of mobile activity they engage in? Has "you are what you drive" transformed to "you are what your cell phone is"?

http://www.sciencedirect.com

Title: Personality & Self Reported Mobile Phone Use

This article discusses how identity might be connected to mobile phone use. Researchers focused on ring tones, text messaging, addictiveness, etc. in order to discover if personality traits such as disagreeableness or narcissism are connected with one's cell phone use.

Title: The Mobile Phone & The Public Sphere
http://cvg.sagepub.com

This article focuses on the mobile phone and the public sphere--How the phone has changed our interactions with one another on a physical, tangible level. This article raises questions like: is it possible that the fact that most people have cell phones on them at all times (and can thus relay information in seconds to a number of people)has changed people's true behavior?

http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=274
This article called “Culture Watch- Cosmetic Surgery and the Customized Self,” has fueled my thoughts about the popularity of plastic surgery in mainstream culture and how it is almost “normal” to partake in it.

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-democratization-of-beauty
This journal, called “The Democratization of Beauty,” is about why and how America succumbs to the woes of plastic surgery. The author goes in depth about how narcissistic our society has become and its continuous demand.

http://rodeodriveplasticsurgery.blogspot.com/2005/08/tummy-tucks-and-drains.html
This sickening website, called “Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery Blog,” advertises cosmetic surgery online like a commodity and is filled with pictures of their “services,” catchy little headings, and even promotes the “Rodeo Drive Transformation Vacation” in which you can have a weekend getaway to have this life-transforming procedure done. Barf!

http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T3670768827&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T3670768830&cisb=22_T3670768829&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=11314&docNo=25

This article discusses why the number of women smokers is increasing and points to advertising as the reason. I want to explore the history of cigarette sales to women.

http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/returnTo.do?returnToKey=20_T3670768845

This Washington Post article discusses the sale of pink cigarettes, the subject of my first paper.

www.nick.com

This is a popular children's website that is part of the large Nickelodeon corporation. It will be a source for analysis of the amount of unhealthy advertisements children are exposed to online while surfing the web.

http://digitalads.org/

This website discusses the newest forms of online interactive worlds and games in which children are exposed to various well known food corporations through product placement.

www.disney.com

Another popular children's website that stems out of the large television network. It will also serve as a resource in analyzing the amount of food advertisements children are exposed to while navigating the webpage.

I've started my research looking into how our culture responds to color whether it be in an advertisement, sporting event, or even how many speeding tickets someone drivin a red car may receive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology

This is just a brief overview of the topic as a whole. I used it mainly as a jumping off point.

http://www.office.xerox.com/small-business/resources/international-color-guide-home/enus.html

This site basically breaks down what colors mean across different cultures.

http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19970201-000021.html

Interesting article about how color played a role in sporting events. Hockey and football teams that wore black drew more penalties.

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&uid=1988-13846-001

This is a link to the publication of the original study of black uniforms.

http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/pkivel3.html

http://intl-jbs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/34/4/562

http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/flax.html

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.2/br_72.html

i think my topic may be too broad and too serious.

I am researching brands with specific regard to scents. My friend's uncle would like to market different scents to the "extreme sports" and I thought it was a really interesting concept because smelling good does not seem to go with "extreme".

http://www.theaxeeffect.com/flash.html

http://www.consideryourselfwarned.com/

http://www.foxracing.com/us/en/fox/

http://www.sexwax.com/

http://www.volcom.com/

http://www.vans.com/vans/index2.asp

The links I found to Lexis Nexis articles wouldn't go to the actual article so I didn't post them.

I think im going to research information about Victoria's Secret (how they advertise and the impact they have on consumers and the environment).

Junk mail is more than just an annoyance; it's an environmental disaster.
http://www.borealbirds.org/news_media/MephisFlyer090205_000.doc

A Pornographic Femininity? Telling and Selling Victoria's (Dirty) Secrets
http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/stable/view/466785?seq=4&Search=yes&term=victoria%27s&term=secret&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dvictoria%2527s%2Bsecret%26dc%3DAll%2BDisciplines&item=3&ttl=710&returnArticleService=showArticle

Classy Lingerie
http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/stable/view/1396019?seq=2&Search=yes&term=victoria%27s&term=secret&term=retail&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dvictoria%2527s%2Bsecret%2Bretail%26gw%3Djtx%26prq%3Dvictoria%2527s%2Bsecret%26hp%3D25&item=12&ttl=38&returnArticleService=showArticle

Victoria's Secret: It's Slave Labor and So-Called "Free Trade"
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/69022/

Research topic: Organic food-what we do not realize

http://www.isobd.org/images/jisobd_summer_2006.pdf#page=40

Contrasting organic and conventional food products
Examination of objective nutrition information shows almost no difference between organic and conventional food, and objective sensory taste tests show a preference for the conventional foods tested.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-3010.2007.00628.x

Is organic food better for our health?
This article argues that organic food is sometimes not as good as it seems.

http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Organic%20vs%20supermarket--element%20levels.pdf

Organic foods vs. Supermarket foods: element levels
Organic foods have similar nutritional values as conventional food. So why pay more?

Addictive Impulse
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E05E6DB1F39F932A15754C0A9649C8B63
(article on shopping addiction)
http://www.oniomaniawi.com/
(shopping website)
http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=2074
(article on proposed oil addiction index)
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/
(genetics and addiction)
http://www.medicinenet.com/sexual_addiction/index.htm
(sex addiction)
http://www.theway.uk.com/addictions/types/types.html
(general addiction resource)
http://www.sober-solutions.com/types-of-addiction.php
(ditto)
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/a/addiction/basics.htm
(ditto)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/business/media/05tabloid.html
(affinity for celebrity children photos)
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1733748,00.html
(TIME's 100 Most Influential People)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2457-semen-acts-as-an-antidepressant.html
(study suggesting semen acts as an anti-depressant in women)
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Depressed-Women-Have-More-Sex-81482.shtml
(depressed women have more sex article)
http://www.selfhelpweb.org/addiction.html
(reexamines dogma towards addiction)
http://www.workhealth.org/whatsnew/lpkarosh.html
(death by overwork resource)
http://www.hazards.org/workedtodeath/index.htm
(ditto)

My topic is Anti-consumerism, the rise of socio-political movement against consumerism

Online links:
http://www.verdant.net/ - this is a citizen-activist anti-consumerism site. It offers ideas and solutions for sustainable and low cost green living
http://www.sustainableenterprises.com/Planet/anticonsumer.htm - a site where people can share their thoughts about anti-consumerism
http://anticonsumerism.blogspot.com/ - anti-consumerism blog
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/16/MNG2KH9P4767.DTL - an article on anti-consumerism movement in San-Francisco
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/ - a website dedicated to the Buy Nothing Day

Library links:
Beyond the boycott: Anti-consumerism, cultural change and the limits of reflexivity - This article focuses on the possibilities and limitations of reflexivity in contemporary anti-consumerism activist discourse
Historiographical reviews: a political history of the consumer - The article examines the relationship between the consumer and the citizen from the eighteenth century to the present in Europe and the United States
What would Jesus buy? Rev. Billy and his "Church of Stop Shopping" preach the gospel of love, anti-consumerism, and radical neighborliness – This article is about Reverend Billy, the founder of the Church of Stop Shopping
The rebel sell: if we all hate consumerism, how come we can't stop shopping?(North America)
What to Buy for Xmas? Nothing.

I decided to do a research paper on the Green side of marketing - and how the recent wave of "going green" has affected consumerism.

Green Consumerism: Greening all the Way to the Bank

http://homepage.mac.com/herinst/rgosden/arena.html

NY Times: Buying Into the Green Movement

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/fashion/01green.html

Green Consumerism: An Oxymoron?

http://www.ujfpittsburgh.org/page.html?ArticleID=148734

ABC News:Going Green - Fad or Future

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=3366763&page=1

My research topic is about cell phones and their effect on society. I will also talk about how cell phone companies market themselves toward the everyday consumer. Here are a couple of possible sources for my paper:

Goggin, G. (2006). Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life. London and
New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Gogging explains how cell phones affect culture. He looks at the way cell phones have embedded themselves in our lives. This book is valuable reference for those seeking a comprehensive history of cell phone use.

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/216/cell-phone-society

I found this article interesting because it approaches the issue of how cell phones have shaped the way we schedule our lives around our cell phone plans. Specifically, the way/time we communicate with people is contingent upon our cell phone plan.

Topic: consumer addiction

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/82013/
In this article, it gives the authors reason why people are addicted to consuming materials. He believes it is due to the fact that they are unhappy with their lives. I enjoyed this article because at the end it had many blogs and other people’s views and opinions.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/07/earlyshow/living/ConsumerWatch/main1103331.shtml
In this article is talks about how people are addicted to shopping because of the “rush” they get when they shop. Apparently the brain releases chemicals in which identify because pleasure and pain. Since shopping feels like a positive sensation for some, they wish to repeat it.

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/163/10/1670
In this article it talks about if there really is such thing as being a “compulsive buyer.” It talks about how there can be many other things leading up to why people are compulsive buyers or goods. It talks about how this is a controversial issue because some think that people need help, others believe that it is just a trait and people should not be medicated for it.

http://www2.victoriassecret.com/?cm_mmc=Google-_-VS%20Brand%20II_VS%20Brand-_-exact-_-victoria%20secret

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NajTVq8EfPg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jZgBuyGCMQU

this shows how society believes women and women should appear. Women sexy and men strong and manly

http://www.walmart.com/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hiSmlmXp-aU

walmart represents the most known store in america, and is supossed to be the cheapest. i would use this and research walmart and prove if they are the best and cheapest.

I'm thinking about researching how TV advertising affects children's gender roles - (does it teach them how to be a girl/boy)

Sex Roles in Advertising: A Comparison of Television Advertisements in Australia, Mexico, and the United States: (JSTOR link)

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/action/showArticle?doi=10.2307/1251266&Search=yes&term=united&term=television&term=sex&term=advertisements&term=mexico&term=australia&term=roles&term=advertising&term=states&term=comparison&item=1&returnArticleService=showArticle&ttl=89&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DSex%2BRoles%2Bin%2BAdvertising%253A%2BA%2BComparison%2Bof%2BTelevision%2BAdvertisements%2Bin%2BAustralia%252C%2BMexico%252C%2Band%2Bthe%2BUnited%2BStates%26x%3D12%26y%3D21

Prime-Time Television and Gender-Role Behavior (JSTOR link)

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/action/showArticle?doi=10.2307/1317366&Search=yes&term=television&term=gender-role&term=behavior&term=prime-time&item=1&returnArticleService=showArticle&ttl=36&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DPrime-Time%2BTelevision%2Band%2BGender-Role%2BBehavior%26dc%3DAll%2BDisciplines

Children's Advertising And Gender Roles – fact sheet:

http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_childgen.shtml

For my research paper I would really like to explore the ways in which the prison system serves as a means for cheap labor.
The Proliferation of Prison Labor
http://www.dmiblog.com/archives/2006/04/the_proliferation_of_prison_la.html
Prison Labor: Profits,Slavery, and the State
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/mt/mt11labor.html
From Plantation to Penitentiary to the Prison-Industrial Complex:
Literature of the American Prison
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/MLABLACK.htm

I am doing my paper on the drug industry, in particular the prescription medicine industry and how they spend millions of dollars on marketing. This can be crossed with the question of whether that money should be spent on producing cheaper, more effective and safe medicines instead. I also want to touch on the prescription drug companies in competition with the black market and illegal narcotics trade.

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/action/showArticle?doi=10.2307/3203468&Search=yes&term=drugs&term=prescription&item=21&returnArticleService=showArticle&ttl=7713&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dprescription%2Bdrugs%26gw%3Djtx%26prq%3Dprescription%2Bdrug%2Bindustry%26hp%3D25

Whether or not the prescription drug companies various sales events and marketing to doctors has an effect on how a doctor treats a patient.

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/oxycodone.html

DEA's website about the dangers of oxycontin, an expensive and legal drug that is widely prescribed and even more widely abused.

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/marijuana.html

Conversely, the DEA's website on the illegal drug marijuana asserts that it has no medicinal value.

Prescription drugs in pill form are easy and very cheap to produce. These companies are making millions of dollars in profit and us normal citizens are the ones getting hurt by it because doctors and insurance companies make their decisions based on money rather than what is best for the patient.

http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/845.asp
This site shows a study of video games’ impact on individual’s behavior and thoughts. The experiment was done under a hypothesis that playing video games may cause negative reaction on behaviors, such as violent thoughts and behaviors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5016514.stm
This is an actual news article from BBC News. It shows recent news about Venezuelan politicians complaining to US government for use of games as war propaganda against Venezuela. They claimed that war scenarios in certain video games stimulates and supports the ideas of invasion of South American nations.
http://gamepolitics.com
This site shows various articles and news from recent gaming industries on their issues with public and debates.

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/stable/pdfplus/684838.pdf
A small scale study on who, if anybody, actual individuals identify as personal heroes. “The study of heroes is important because heroes are one indicator of who we are and what we stand for…The tendency to identify with heroes was found to be related to transcendental concerns with the meaning of life and to religiosity.
Overall, the pattern of findings discloses an unstudied dimension of cultural disenchantment”

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/stable/pdfplus/3594275.pdf
He examines the club as a literacy delivery system, asking how literacy takes its shape from the interests of both Winfrey and her readers. His article will be used for factual quotations along with providing an insightful study on one aspect to Oprah’s ‘eminence’.

http://www2.oprah.com/index.jhtml
“Oprah.com is your destination site for expert advice on love, life, and relationships. Get step-by-step guides on cooking, entertaining, home decorating, ...” reads the first entry to Google’s search results for I Love Oprah
.
http://www.qoae.net/archives/000406.html
“October 11, 2004
How Can You Not Love Oprah?
...

“A Meaning-Based Model of Advertising Experiences” David Glen Mick and Claus Buhl
http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/stable/pdfplus/2489392.pdf

http://www.heartsandminds.org/articles/sweat.htm
This site discusses why we have seen a recent surge in sweatshop work. It gives examples of sweatshops in the Los Angeles area.

http://www-tc.pbs.org/pov/pov2007/madeinla/pdf/madeinla_delvedeeper.pdf
The movie “Made In L.A.” is a documentary about three immigrant woman working in sweatshops in Los Angeles. This website is for people who are interested in the issue and would like to learn more about it. It gives a list of other resources and sites about the topic.

http://www.globalexchange.org/
This site just gives general information about how the global economy works. It gives info about the WTO, NAFTA, the IMF. It is a good background info site.

http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/media/pdf/garment_report_2004.pdf
This report gives information about the Los Angeles garment industry. It also gives a list of other reference sites. It focuses on action we can take to avoid the exploitation of workers.

Possible research topic: Xenotransplantation (animal organ transplantation)

The Public Health Risk of Animal organ and Tissue Transplantation into Humans. Science, New Series, Vol. 273, No. 5276, (Aug. 9, 1996), pp. 746-747

This article talks about the health problems in the American society. Zoonosis is a disease caused by animals. It transmits into humans through xenotransplantation. The article specifically talks about the effect of herpesviruses and retroviruses upon human diseases.

Organ Wars: The Battle for Body Parts. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 9, No. 3, (Sep., 1995), pp. 335-356

This article is about cultural rejection of transplantation and its view of the body. It depicts how people desire new organs from donors to extend their life; this brings the allocating issue in the society.

http://blog.daum.net/jeon7108

- Advantages of xenotransplantation
- History of xenotransplantation
- Possible controversial issues in society

Farming for Spare Body Parts. BioScience, Vol. 45, No. 2, (Feb., 1995), pp. 73-75

This article discusses about the scarcity of human donors and subsequently results in numerous human death. It represents a solution, xenograft (animal organs) as one of the best alternative ways. It also mentions about contemporary biotechnology companies which begin to market the organs.

Research topic: Soccer and international relations

http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/InternationalRelations/
This site demonstrates how the English Football Association branches out and helps third world countries and provides support for those countries. Both players and coaches branch out to help.

http://www.cnrs.fr/Cnrspresse/n400/html/en400foot01.htm
This talks about how soccer can be a good "barometer for international relations" It draws up some comparable situations, such as Mussolini's Italy winning soccer was a symbol of success for facism over democracy, etc.

http://www.dajf.org.uk/_pdf/sem63.pdf
This document talks about how the 2002 world cup brought Asia closer together, notably South Korea and Japan, since they had to co-host together.

http://www.healthandage.org/Home/gm=20!gid2=2868

This article discusses why liposuction will not stop obesity.

http://health.msn.com/womens-health/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100096661

Basic information about liposuctions.

www.nutrisystem.com
www.lipozene.com
http://youtube.com/watch?v=92wr1UfMN_w&feature=related

these are weight loss sites that constantly tell the potential consumer that they are unattractive but they can be attractive if they buy the product and then will be happier. the last one is a nutrisystem commercial aimed at men. its interesting that body distortion marketing is now being aimed at men as well.

I'm doing something with social networking sites, might end up working on the movement of trends in response to the interconnectedness web established by them. Either way, it's gonna be fucking sweet.

http://twitter.com/
http://sabraheart.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-internet-ruined-me-social-skills.html
http://internet.suite101.com/article.cfm/social_networkingwhat_is_it
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/livetext.mclewis/social-networking-in-education/

http://camy.org/factsheets/index.php?FactsheetID=1

This article presents many statistics about the affects of alcohol advertising for underage viewers. It was particularly helpful because it offered an abundance of evidence, through the use of studies, that demonstrate the damaging effects of alcohol advertising that is aimed toward our nation’s youth.

http://www.stats.org/stories/targeting_youth_aug1_06.htm

This site was interesting because it discussed alcohol advertising targeted toward youth specifically in the domain of magazine advertisements. Magazines are certainly only one of the many media outlets that offer alcohol advertisements to underage drinkers, and I am interested in possibly researching a number of the different outlets of this type of advertising and comparing the effects that each may have on underage drinking.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/linguist34/advertisements/alcohol%20ads/index.htm

This site is contains a compilation of 55 images of alcohol advertisements taken from a variety of magazines. It demonstrates how these ads rely on images that teens find particularly appealing, including “friendship, prestige, sex appeal, and fun”. Not only are these photos compelling evidence for the arguments made in the research I have done so far, I also plan to use some of these images in my presentation.