Faceless: The visual representation of overweight people in Flemish and Dutch online newspapers

We conducted a quantitative visual content analysis to examine how overweight and obese people are portrayed in online newspaper photos in the Netherlands and Flanders compared to non-overweight individuals. Overall, we found that 68% of the obese/overweight people were depicted in a stigmatizing wa...

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Main Authors: Ilya Lisser, Hedwig de Smaele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lomonosov Moscow State University. Faculty of Journalism 2020-06-01
Series:World of Media
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Online Access:http://worldofmedia.ru/volumes/2020/2020_Issue_1/Faceless%20The%20visual%20representation.pdf