0006/2008 - “The media and the body: what the young has to say?”
“A mídia e o corpo: o que o jovem tem a dizer?”
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Author:
• Maria Aparecida Conti - Conti, M.A. - São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo - Faculdade de Saúde Pública - <maconti@usp.br>Thematic Area:
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Objective: To verify the perception of the young about the relation between the media, especially the TV and magazine access and the body of the adolescent. Methods: A cross-section study was carried out with 121 adolescents of a private school in SP. Semi-structured individual interview were applied recorded in magnetic ribbon using The Discourse of the Collective Subject’ methodology based in the Social Representation’s concept. Data were tabulated using three methodological approaches: central idea; Key expressions and discourse of the collective subjective. Results: Discourses of adolescents was evaluated, indicating that 95% of central ideas expressed relations among TV, magazines and the body and the most common ideas were about the stimulation of the thinness ideal physicist and the negative influence with hazard experience and illnesses appear. In 5% of central ideas registered no relation among TV, magazines and the body. Conclusion: The young shows the knowledge about the intense media’s interference in the adolescent body.Keywords: Adolescence; Media; Social representation; Qualitative research.
