User:Demet Adiguzel/Essay outline

In my essay I would like to discuss how media 'shape' us.
I would like to research on below mentioned subjects and discuss how media teach us how "to see and to be".
- The role of 'the gaze'
- Seeing and perception
- Cosmetic surgeries

Bibliography (so far):

- Balsamo, A. (1992) 'On The Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and The Technological Production of the Gendered Body', camera obscura 22
- Berger, J. (1972). Ways of Seeing. London, Penguin Books
- Frith, K., Shaw, P., Cheng, H. (2005). 'The Construction of Beauty: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Women's Magazine Advertising.' in Journal of Communication
- Haraway, D. (1991) 'The Persistence of Vision' in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
- Sturken, M., Cartwright, L. (2001) 'Spectatorship, Power and Knowledge' in Practices of Looking: An Introduction To Visual Culture