Amy Corey's "Body Politics"

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the main ideas of Amy Corey's article "Body Politics in Online Communication" are based on the public forum of the reality show, "Fear Factor", which she considers a discriminative communication tool. Her arguments, the author indicates, are founded on a research study conducted on the free online forum entitled "Fat Fear Factor" in which a subtle discussion over the issue of body representation is conducted. The paper analyzes the methods used by Corey as reported in this article.

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"On the one hand, concerning the technicalities of online communication, from the analysis conducted to the lines of the messages and responses to posts, she concludes that there is indeed distinctiveness in the way in which people communicate online versus face-to-face communication. More precisely, in the first situation they are more willing to talk about the issues otherwise would be reluctant to address such as for instance body fat or the way in which society treats overweight people."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Corey, A. (2007) Body politics in online communication. Texas Speech Communication Journal, vol. 32, no. 1., pp. 21-32.

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