'Are You a Good Female Citizen?': Media Discourses on Self-Governing Represented in Popular Korean Weight-Loss Reality TV Shows
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dc.contributor.author | Choi, Yoonso | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-18T07:40:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-06-18T07:40:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019-06 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1360-7804 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/45118 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Based on Foucault's work on governmentality, the purpose of this study is to examine the socio-cultural influences of media discourses that have been reproduced and spread in Korea's neo-liberal society through weight-loss reality TV shows. After neo-liberalism was established as a political ideology in Korea, weight-loss reality programs, which contain significant neo-liberal characteristics, have risen in popularity among ordinary Korean women. The popularity of female-oriented pop media culture has generated the idea of self-body care that now plays a powerful role in efficiently reproducing good female citizens who are able to be governed at a distance. This study particularly focuses on analyzing significant media discourse that tends to prompt ordinary girls and women into donning the role of a neo-liberal subject by taking care of their bodies. The major points include (1) producing a feminized, skinny body, rather than a healthy body; (2) defining clear boundaries between the normal and abnormal body by clothing size; (3) re-generating dominant female body discourse by a group of lifestyle designers; and (4) labeling female bodies that have failed in body-care. In conclusion, the study emphasizes significant cultural influences of the diet reality shows that operate as a cultural medium to efficiently produce a neo-liberal body. | - |
dc.format.extent | 13 | - |
dc.language | 영어 | - |
dc.language.iso | ENG | - |
dc.publisher | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | - |
dc.title | 'Are You a Good Female Citizen?': Media Discourses on Self-Governing Represented in Popular Korean Weight-Loss Reality TV Shows | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1360780418807949 | - |
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE, v.24, no.2, pp 154 - 166 | - |
dc.description.isOpenAccess | N | - |
dc.identifier.wosid | 000471016800002 | - |
dc.identifier.scopusid | 2-s2.0-85067191040 | - |
dc.citation.endPage | 166 | - |
dc.citation.number | 2 | - |
dc.citation.startPage | 154 | - |
dc.citation.title | SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE | - |
dc.citation.volume | 24 | - |
dc.type.docType | Article | - |
dc.publisher.location | 영국 | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | governmentality | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | media discourse | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | neo-liberalism | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | self-body care | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | weight-loss reality TV | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | MAKEOVER | - |
dc.relation.journalResearchArea | Sociology | - |
dc.relation.journalWebOfScienceCategory | Sociology | - |
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass | ssci | - |
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass | scopus | - |
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