"Letras de Tango". Magazine informativo especializado en problemáticas sociales

Abstract

Is there a relation between the media and the increase of eating disorders? It is claimed that mass media provides a significantly influential context where young people are bombed almost daily with the image of the immense value placed upon being attractive in contrast to the value of other skills or traits. This paper tries to provide a review of the role that the media plays in the development and the maintenance of eating disorders based on the interpretation of data acquired through interviews and the media. It is important to point out that the study is based on the media available on the Internet and fundamentally on expert opinions. The data was obtained through interviews to various doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists, leaders in the eating disorders investigations at the Hospital Clínic of Valencia, the Hospital Provincial of Castellón and private clinics. Their investigations, according to the interviews, are derived from the observation of an increasing number of people who suffer an eating disorder in Spain. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the role of the media in the development and the maintenance of eating disorders according to the following points: • The function of the media in providing a social context for the development of eating disorders. • The position where is situated the media in the development of an eating disorder pathology. • The way in which the media manipulates patients who are considerate “vulnerable profi les” in order to suffer from eating disorders. • The implied capacity that the media has to state eating disorders in people who suffers from it. • This process and this investigation is going to be captured and expressed though a radio programme. A radio magazine specialised in social problems.

Bajo el título “Letras de Tango”, este proyecto pretende tratar los temas más actuales y controvertidos que existen en la sociedad actual. Problemas cotidianos con los que convivimos y en los que no reparamos lo suficiente. La temática escogida para el desarrollo de este primer programa es la constante aparición de nuevos casos de Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria (TCA), sus causas y consecuencias sobre la salud física y mental de las personas que los padecen y su entorno.