This book deals with the impact of the sociocultural environment on body-image in Western consumer culture. Based on McCracken’s (1986) meaning-transfer model
This scholarly work is the most comprehensive existing resource on human physical appearance—how people’s outer physical characteristics and their inner per
Now in its third edition, this dynamic textbook blends coverage of the major theories and research methods in mass communication to enable students to apply the
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