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My name is Stephanie, and I am an aspiring Editor and Journalist.
New York born, New Jersey raised.
I recently earned my B.A. in Communications from Chestnut Hill College where I have studied Journalism and Professional Writing for the the last four years. During my time at CHC, I was fortunate enough to not only be a part of the Student Run Newspaper, The Griffin, but I was named Editor-in-Chief during my Junior and Senior years.
When I was not busy doing schoolwork or planning for the newspaper, I was spending time with my bowling team. Being part of a collegiate athletic team was never something that I ever saw myself doing, but it gave me some of the greatest friendships and memories I could ever ask for.
I love being creative. Writing, reading, painting, and drawing are just a few of the ways that I keep my mind busy. I found that I really enjoy painting with watercolors during my time at college. From a very young age I have also enjoyed photography. My favorite is landscape and abstract photography, but I will take pictures of just about anything.
I am currently Interning at BELLA Magazine, where I get to work with some amazing people. I am really enjoying being a part of a larger publication, and learning new styles and techniques.
Outside of BELLA, I am dabbling in other jobs including coaching bowling, working with a women's entrepreneurial group, and working in an assisted living facility.
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What can you find here?
This is my platform to share my thoughts and ideas. Here, I am able to re-publish my articles, features, and anything else I want to share with my readers and followers. This blog is a portfolio of my writing and photography skills that I want to showcase.
I will be using this platform to continue to grow my portfolio and hone the skills I have learned over the past four years. Additionally, through this blog, I can continue to share my work with people well beyond my collegiate years.
“If you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true.”
Sleeping Beauty
Senior Thesis
Fashion Photography and the Body Positivity Movement: Shaping Society's View on Women
This thesis was presented to Chestnut Hill College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Departmental Honors Program in Communications
Published April 20, 2020
This paper was written over the course of several months during the 2019-2020 academic year.
Abstract: The idea that fashion can be more inclusive of different cultures, body types, and gender identities, has gained traction with the help of Millennials and Gen Z as part of the Body Positivity Movement. Campaigns run by Aerie, Target, and even Old Navy, have claimed that they have become more inclusive of various body types, and are pushing the idea that every body is different: no two people look the same, feel the same, or have the same sense of style. This paper analyzes and critiques the body positivity of the social media advertisements of six popular clothing brands. Expanding the range of models used for advertisements, promotions, and other posts on Instagram has, and will continue to influence society’s idea of the ideal body image. Promoting posts like these on a platform like Instagram, which is primarily used to share the most artistic, aesthetically pleasing, and most “like-able” types of photos, people (especially women) can feel as if they belong, even if they do not look like the traditional, stereotypically beautiful model. Additionally, models who are body inclusive have brought the brands they represent a larger target audience and customer following. This project backs up the claim that body positivity included in popular brands on social media gives more women the opportunity to identify with brand image. The content used for this project was a random sampling from late October to mid-December 2019 and analyzed to create the data set referred to in this thesis.
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