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Global Media Journal-Pakistan EditionVolume XIII, Issue I, Spring 2020Audience Perception on Portrayal of Women inTelevised Advertisements of Men’s ProductsFaiza Gul 1Asad Munir 2AbstractThis study revolves around the portrayal of women in men’s product TVadvertisements and audience perception. The study was conducted tomeasure the audience perception on the female portrayal in men’s productadvertisements aired on television channels. The researchers applied mixmethod approach to analyze the advertisement contents and surveyed theaudiences to measure their perception on the issue. The study concludedthat both men and women with lower and higher education have a higherexposure to the televised advertisements of men’s’ products. Female modelsare extensively used in these advertisements. Voice over, costume and bodilyare heavily exploited with the sex appeal and the audiences admitted thatthey get attracted to that. Female models have been shown in dependentroles on the men and are also exploited as a sex object. As perceived by theaudiences, the female portrayal was un-appropriate while there was somedegree of acceptance towards the dressing of female models.Keywords: Women portrayal, Women in Advertisements, Female Models,Women in Mens’ Products, Representation of Women1M.Phil Scholar and Freelance Researcher, Department of MassCommunication, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan2Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, Allama Iqbal OpenUniversity, Islamabad, Pakistan52
Global Media Journal-Pakistan EditionVolume XIII, Issue I, Spring 2020IntroductionAdvertising is a means of association with the users of a service or product.Advertisements are the paid form of messages for by those who send themand are proposed to illuminate or impact individuals who get them. It is avery successful tool of the communication used by the advertisers to get thedue attention from the audience. On the daily basis different advertisementsare watched by the audience. Below then 30% advertisements observeddaily presented on television (Bearth, Beck, & Döbel, 2014). Advertisingholds a feasible route over the social and social goals, frames of mind,considerations and estimations of customers, giving them social structure bymeans of its implying rehearses (Plakoyiannaki, 2009). With the shortage oftime advertisers work in that way that what the audience think about thatproduct in which they increment their children, their appropriate thoughtsand erroneous direct, their contribution of hugeness to picture in every openand personal ways of life (Witkowski, 1984).Advertising has developed as an important condition for the moneyrelated achievement of any current and present day work, showcase pressedsociety and has developed to describe no longer least complex the capacitysatisfaction of a given production partnership, however also the socialsetting it tends to inspire (McCulloch, 1981). Within the setting of the postsocialist change, specifically invigorating have been the patterns in EasternEurope where a free commercial center joined by utilizing a customerprincipally based budgetary framework have changed the social conditionand influenced various regions of social ways of life (Aleksandar Štulhofer,2005) and (Kelly-Holmes, 1998). Advertising is the most compellingfoundation of socialization in current society (Merskin, 1999). (Cook, 2001)Point out that advertisements educate, persuade, remind, sway and maybetrade assessments, emotions and mentalities. Truth be told, as Barber (1998)proposed, a couple of critics may even embrace that a portion of the unrestsin this piece of the world had of their actual point now not freedom and theprivilege to cast a ballot, nonetheless, yet additionally have legitimatelypaying employments just as ideal to shop. They describe their research thatfemale image are portraying as the sexual object. They create the fantasy inthe advertisements that is not exists in the reality.Advertisers portrays female image excessively with the perfectbody without any defect. They are used a pretty and eye-catching parts ofthe body for getting the desire viewership in advertisements (Ali &Shahwar, 2011). In the men’s product TV advertisements female modelsportrayed for the male gaze, advertisers are not using the rationality appealthey directly use the emotional and the sexual appeal to influence thecustomers. They create the situation in advertisement to influence thecustomers to buy that product as their social need. Most of theadvertisements portrayed the female image in that way that is not acceptableto the local cultural values. Female seems to be in dependent to the men’sare in dominant images in television advertisements. Most of the time53
Global Media Journal-Pakistan EditionVolume XIII, Issue I, Spring 2020advertisers used female features as physical pleasant appearance and theirspecial individuality in men’s products advertisements.In present time portrayal of female in the advertisement isunnecessary most of the time, especially in the men’s product TVadvertisements. Whereas they are not suitable in men’s product televisionadvertisements but exist in advertisements. So, the research topic isportrayal of the female in men’s product TV advertisements and theaudience perception to find out that the portrayal of female is actually existsame as in advertisements. It is acceptable to the local cultural values of thePakistan. General public buy that product due to the endorsement of femalein men’s product TV advertisements.Research ProblemIt is extensively observed that the female models are frequently used in theproducts that are solely related to men. The research proposed wasconducted to find why the advertisers use the female models in men’sproduct advertisements measuring perception of audience about theportrayal of females in men’s product televised ads. The research also aimedat exploring what extent the females endorse the audience to buy men’sproducts. Gender and education level have been taken as demographicvariables. The study was carried out in the Capital of Pakistan, Islamabad bysurvey method and content analysis techniques.ObjectivesThis research is aimed to achieve the following objectives: To explore the portrayal of female in men’s product televisionadvertisements. To measure the patterns of women portrayal in men’s product TVadvertisements. To explore the audience perception regarding female in men’sproduct television advertisement and its influence on the culturalvalues of Pakistan. To examine the extent of audience perception on stereotypicalpresentation. To explore audience perception on use of female sexuality in men’sproduct television advertisement.Literature ReviewAdvertisement is an instrument in advertising observe utilized byorganizations to fetch issues to light while picture in their customer of theirproducts, brands and administration (Fill, 2009). Researcher described thatthe key capability of advertising is to produce representation imageryaround the brand's product that, at last, makes a connection among shoppersand the Brand (David, Aaker, & Biel, 1993). Now, consumers areconsistently immersed by advertising and messages of the product (Fill &Roper, 2012). One region in advertisement research that has considerationfor a long time is the connection between buyer dispositions and advertising.This has gotten considerable consideration because of the way that there is54
Global Media Journal-Pakistan EditionVolume XIII, Issue I, Spring 2020an association between purchaser frames of mind towards advertising,marks just as buy expectations (MacKenzie & Lutz, 2015,)Sexual orientation ideas in advertising : Sexism or sexualorientation predisposition suggest to sex based generalizations, impacts andconduct bringing about unmistakable social statuses for people (Ridgeway& Correll, 2004). Sexism examine expands on the idea of conventionalsexism furthermore called open sexism (Diemer, Kauffman, Koenig,Trahan, Hsieh, & Blustein, 2006).Ideas of female in advertisin g: The assortment of female pictures inadvertising has no uncertainty better yet this does not mean notwithstanding,that a great deal has changed in the basic example of utilitarian desires andattributions (William, Bearden, Richard, Netemeyer, & Haws, 1991).Various types of speaking to females in advertising and showcasing asproposed (Ryan-Flood & Gill, 2013). Introduced divided portrayals offemales, segments in their bodies missing, notwithstanding explicitlycharged photographs (Kuhn & Johnson, 2013).Female Discrimination: Females are diminished to sexuality, to a place ofenchantress and enticed, of vamp and virgin in equivalent degree. The"female" is translated as a flag of sensuality, females being the intention andpartner to male heterosexuality (Sedgwick, 2014 ).Females as product: Females are taken care of as items, as they havelooked like as youthful, beautiful and unused (Kessler-Harris, 2003). Comodification of females as a sex object has been tenaciously depicted invarying media (Christoforou, John, & Davis, 2014) , (Kaul, 2012) and(Margaret, Andrews, & Boyle-, 2008) .Females as Female: Family unit, care for children, spouses – directly hereis in which female can play out their qualities to the entirety. Here is theirregion, here is the place they understand the ropes (Anderson, 2000).Typical female! Females are attributed special capacities, giganticshortcomings, and little indecencies: they're tireless, ungainly, andcredulous, they like to (Quesenbery & Brooks, 2010 ) and (Totton & Jacobs,2001).Females as Commodities: Females are normally introduced as a productfor male joy and utilization (Campbell, 2000) and (Janice & Radway, 2009). A visual affiliation might be made between certain products, frequentlyliquor, in young female structure (Russell, 2002).Females as Divided Bodies: Females are diminished to body components,adapted and prepared for entrance (Ploeg, 2004). Fracture and explicitelements are new chauvinist style gadgets for advertising (Cohan, 2001).Females are regularly offered in a dehumanized way in broadcommunications pictures, their mankind yielded to show the manufacturedperfect (Sharp, 2003).House wifization of callings: Technical vocations are put aside for folks(Evans, Kunda, & Barley, 2004). The advertisement shows a womanutilizing an electrical cable as a clothesline. For all intents and purposes thisundermines her capability as a specialized master, dispensing her housewifeposition she can deal with rather (Winstanlen & Woodall, 2000).55
Global Media Journal-Pakistan EditionVolume XIII, Issue I, Spring 2020Bodies as generally material advertising instruments: Females everyonce in a while, men also are diminished to their sexuality (Byers, 2005).Products are sexualized the utilization of visual and literary associations foreach situation that is normally went with through debasements of female andmale by means of noticeable and printed arrangements, either immediatelyand transparently or through relationship through inferred dreams (King,2002).Portrayal of feminine features: Females aren't viewed in general anywayhandiest in components (Ibarra & Obodaru, 2009). The body componentsmost extreme routinely showed are the sexualized ones, the so-known as"female charms": a female's bosoms, her legs, lips separated, her hairblowing inside the breeze (Rezaie, 2010).Advertising seductive services : Advertising sexual contributions, ifpermissible, considers misogynist if our bodies, body parts, female or malesexuality are displayed revoltingly and in debasing ways (Denfeld, 2009).While surveying advertising and promoting as to its obscenity exact intrigueshould be paid to the medium utilized, the setting, environment, potentialobjective organizations and people accidentally came to (Shelanski, 2006).Self-perceptions and control: Advertising deliberately applies outlinedepictions to advance products (Tsiotsou, Ronald, & Goldsmith, 2012).These previews mirror a barely characterized excellence ideal for youngfemales or men and are consistently falsely changed or contorted (Fels,2013).Non-verbal communication: Non-verbal communication is every now andagain thought about the tertiary sexual orientation trademark (Francis,2014). It communicates and interprets sexual orientation images.Sitting Postures: Young women are envisioned sitting awkwardly, theirstance slim, arms habitually covered up and legs crossed (Wagner, 2012 ).Grinning: Females are envisioned grinning for no conspicuous reason: theyare most likely humiliated, compromised or presented to an assault (Barreca,2013).Looks, copies, head act: Looks are units of vitality and self-glorification.The resulting variables of casing language are enlisted inside the course:showing a young female's look from the edge of her eye, from theperspective, her head twisted to no less than one side, influencing her toappear to be uncertain (Showalter, 2005).Pakistani Culture: Pakistani culture is changing by methods for theweight abroad prominent way of life conveyed through plugs and by meansof the viable assault of worldwide makers to transform indigenous culturesinto a homogenous worldwide culture that thusly blurs away socialconstraints of numerous political domains (Ali, et. al., 2014).Typification wonders: As Daniel (2005) found that the greater part ofthe young females from private cure revealed about expending ailment justas media impacts and body disgrace.Islam and Female: There were times in the mankind's history when justmen were viewed as the focal point of creation and universe, while thefemales were viewed as lesser creatures with no human or social rights at all56
Global Media Journal-Pakistan EditionVolume XIII, Issue I, Spring 2020and who just filled in as a methods for sexual satisfaction and subservienceto men. Islam so as to make a serene and adjusted society involving greatMuslims, looked at females as an equivalent element and asserted theirstatus as a beneficial and basic piece of the general public and did whateverconceivable to guarantee that females experienced and delighted in a similarregard in the public eye like men. Nonetheless, before going on with the sortof job and status females appreciate in an Islamic culture, it is basic that thejob and situation of females preceding Islam be examined.Female celebrity portrayal in advertisement :For upgrade ofpowerful advertising in present day age use of female famous people isought to preceding this investigation, here were two floods of scientists whonegate with one another on this matter. Some of them is agreeable to use ofravishing female superstar in advertisements and features them (Baker,1997).Other flow specialists contradict it (Bower & Landreth, 2001). Theystudied that exploration has carried into being certainties of advertisingwith: added of young females because being more inactive than young men;the presence of females not as per the usual (Acevedo, Arruda, & Nohara,1972).Culture: It is the attributes of a chose gathering of people, plot by the wholething from language, religion, food, social propensities, humanities andmelody. The researcher details in his paper that each individual has anumber of narrative qualities that objective a civilization it might be notquite the same as close to home norms (John, McCarty, & Shrum, 1994).Emotions: Researcher expressed that for the most part men are related withlevelheaded things and females are related with passionate things, yet in ads,this the truth is of very abused and a marker of buyer conduct in culture(Royo, Aldás, Küster, & Vila, 2001).Objectification of female : In this study take directed online testinvestigate in the midst of apt to recognize self objectifications of female bytheir selves and others through the webcam (Harper & Tiggemann.,2008).To analysis the substance; prepared by explicitly generalize, fromprevailing press, moderate the impact by self-objectification on the selfportrayal (Myers, 2009).Co modification of female : Media symbolism of females in theappearance of female’s liberation, positions females just as product of malelook. Affiliations are regularly made between a female's body and someitems; and in doing as such profound quality and morals are frequentlyrelinquished.Theoretical FrameworkThis research based on “Male Gaze Theory” of mass communication.Thefilmmaker and scholar Laura Mulvey introduced the concept of male gaze inher famous book 1975 essays, visual pleasure and narrative cinemas. Malegaze is a depicting act of the world and female represent visually and thehistory from masculine and hetro-sexual views, portrayal of female assexual object of male pleasure. Female sexual derives, thoughts and feeling57
Global Media Journal-Pakistan EditionVolume XIII, Issue I, Spring 2020are less important than representing in frame by men’s desires. Inadvertisements masculine tend to sexualize female to male audience.Research QuestionsRQ1: What is the extent of exposure to female portrayal in men’s productTV advertisement?RQ2: What are the patterns of women portrayal in men’s product TVadvertisement contents?RQ3: What is the audience perception on social impact of female portrayalin men’s product TV advertisement?RQ4: Is the female stereotypical image used to attract the target audience inmen’s product TV advertisement?RQ5: What is the audience perception on use of female sexuality in men’sproduct TV advertisement?MethodAs the purpose of this research was portrayal of female in men’s producttelevision advertisements and audience perception qualitative andquantitative research methodology has been used to fulfill the purpose ofresearch study. The mainly objective of this research is to examine theportrayal of female in men’s product TV advertisements and to get theaudience perception about their body featured, projection of body,stereotypical images in which they are being portrayed.Research Design: The researcher used mix method approach; bothqualitative and quantitative methods were used. Survey and Content analysisboth have been used to verify the perception of audience about the portrayalof female in men’s product TV advertisement.Population: Population of this research was the residents of Islamabad citywho were the viewers of TV advertisements. Gender and level of educationwere taken as the demographic variable.Sampling technique:Stratified convenient sampling technique wasused to get the audience perception. The researcher divided the wholepopulation into different strata on the basis of geography i.e. differentsectors of Islamabad (B, D, E, F, G, H and I sectors). Equally 55questionnaires were distributed among the residents of each stratified sector.A sample of 384 respondents was approached as per the researcher’sconvenience.Sampling Unit: Each respondent residing in the sampled sectors ofIslamabad was the sampling unit.Data collection tool: A questionnaire was used to get the audienceperception about the portrayal of female in men’s product TVadvertisements. Twenty five questions were developed; first five questionswere related to their personal information. Remaining questions about theportrayal of physical appearance, costumes and their portrayal related tosociety and local cultural values. The occurrence of frame was measured byfive point Likert scale (strongly agree to strongly disagree) and (very greatlyto never). The questionnaires were distributed and collected on differentmarkets, commercial areas, schools, colleges and restaurants of the sectors.58
Global Media Journal-Pakistan EditionVolume XIII, Issue I, Spring 2020Return Rate: After distribution out of 384 questionnaires 257 werereturned from the population.Data AnalysisTable 1: To what extent do you think that the costume of female modelsin men’s product TV advertisements is appropriate for our society?To what extent doyou think that thecostume of femalemodels in men’sproduct TVadvertisements isappr
Keywords: Women portrayal, Women in Advertisements, Female Models, Women in Mens’ Products, Representation of Women 1 M.Phil Scholar and Freelance Researcher, Department of Mass . Advertising is a mea
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