Student number 3678191

Due Date 20th of August

DIGC Information Search Assignment Report

Identify a current political social or cultural issue._________________________________

Issue; Marketing and manipulation of youththrough teen commodities.
Sub issue: Is Miley Cyrus unethical media Teen Idol?
Beginning the search with working through opinionated views on network
searches and web blogs. The different views across the internet where mainly
relating with the Miley Cyrus pole dancing stunt which brought up how media
role models have such a big impact on the structure of youth today. Starting off
on twitter, delicious then from there created question which were able to be
search by newspaper articles scholarly and document searches on net works such
as scibds to present a move academic form of information on the social issue.
“Is Miley Cyrus really a role model? Pole dancing role model, If
anything...Does she even deserve to be on DC anymore?” (twitter
2009)
“ Sorry, but that is NOT pole dancing People need to chill out.”
(delicious 2009)
(just funny) PenLlawen: "Miley Cyrus on a
stripper pole dancing in hell with cat"
http://bit.ly/d4t3L (ebay.com) It's the Internet.
Things are weird here >>>>>>>> Selling for on
ebay current bid 13 US dollars.(Twitter/ebay)
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Due Date 20th of August

Sex in the Media: Causes of the Past, Effects on the Present, and Implications for the Future
by Scott David Ruzal COMM 409H: News Media Ethics Professor John Sanchez found on
scibd.com, gave an outline of the notion of mass media and the gender roles, sexuality and
appearance additionally showed that young people spend 6-7 hours a day with forms of mass
media. That has these structured views thus affecting their self identities. (Brown, Mass
Media Influences on Sexuality pp. 42).”

From www.howtosaveyourframily.com founded through delicious it is up to the

mothers to protect their little ones from being a tool in manipulation of those “trampy idols”
Published books “30 Ways in 30 Days to Save Your Family” ‘is designed to help you do just
that’ (L.A 2009)

Found of the search engine of dogipile the newsday.com article that stated
“Disney channel won’t be commenting on the performance.” (L. smith 2009)
Disney being the company that Miley Cyrus is associated with, also Disney
being one of the world’s largest T.N.C’s by them keeping their mouth shut
secured their stock finances.
The academic scholarly of the book “Handbook of Self and Identity by Mark R.
Leary and June Price Tangne” was found on Google scholarly. This Helped
establish the view of the teenage role model being used as a manipulation tool.
The individual identities are greatly represented over marketing and they are
individuals that define themselves by their clothing style, commodities and
media idols (Miley Cyrus and so on). Thus having the overall effect of people
who end up falling for this consumer lifestyle will have a complicating self
identity such the fast track move from innocent girl to older teenager to stripper.
(Mark R, et al.2005) By having Miley develop publicly in the media eye over
time it will also develop the process of complication of adopting identities”
(Mark R, et al.2005)
Throughout the overall research there has be an overall change in the type of
information obtained. From what the topic was first focusing on then giving a
vast outline of the issue from opinions and views on all levels and types of
sources.
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Due Date 20th of August

Bibliography
John Sanchez & Scott David Ruzal (2008) Sex in the Media:Causes of the Past, Effects on
the Present, and Implications for the Future http://www.scribd.com/doc/8740365/Sex-in-the-
Media-Causes-of-the-Past-Effects-on-the-Present-and-Implications-for-the-Future 19th
August 2009
Mark R. Leary and June P. & T (2005) Handbook of Self and Identity: Online
Google scholarly:
http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=vafgWfgxUK8C&oi=fnd&pg
=PA253&dq=Media+Idols&ots=rd7aHxtKdI&sig=4b9vt8uQwC3JahRY8eRCD
ZIo3lQ#v=onepage&q=Media%20Idols&f=false. (17th of August 2009) (Mark
R, et al.2005)

http://delicious.com/search?p=Miley+Cyrus+pole+&chk=&fr=del_icio_us&lc
=1&atags=&rtags=&context=al search Posted by: L. A. ( 2009) ‘Teen Choice
Awards Miley Cyrus Pole Dancing Video Backlash’; Teen Choice Awards Miley
Cyrus Pole Dancing Video Backlash SA: http://snarkfood.com/teen-choice-
awards-miley-cyrus-pole-dancing-video-backlash/ 17TH OF August 2009 (l.A
2009)

http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/results/Web/Miley%20Cyrus%20pole%20d
ance/1/300/TopNavigation/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl
=true accedes; Lizzie smith (2009) Miley Cyrus 16, shows off her pole dancing
skills at the teen choice awards.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1205498/Miley-Cyrus-16-shows-
pole-dancing-skills-Teen-Choice-Awards.html#ixzz0OfXQlnFs 18th of August
2009 (L. smith 2009)
R. Hagelin (2009) Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) and trampy teen idols
http://treeoflifelondon.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/miley-cyrus-aka-hannah-
montana-and-trampy-teen-idols-rebecca-hagelin/ 18th of August 2009. (R.
Hagelin 2009)
Library searched article found
http://ey9ff7jb6l.cs.serialssolutions.com.ezproxy.uow.edu.au/results?SS_LibHas
h=EY9FF7JB6L&dbIDList=&catGroupList=default&searchType=advanced&ac
tion=start&searchBy=Category&term0=Miley+Cyrus&field0=Title&boolop1=a
nd&term1=&field1=Title&boolop2=and&term2=&field2=Title&boolop3=and&
term3=&field3=Title&catID=36717 18th of August 2009
The Washington Post Company (2009) "Miley Cyrus, Poles Apart From Her
Tween Self"
rhttp://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.uow.edu.au/pqdlink?Ver=1&Exp=08-18-
2014&FMT=7&DID=1834542191&RQT=309&cfc=1 18th of August 2009 (W.
Post 2009)