Instruction:
Title of your Literature Review
(8 pages:8 peer reviewed secondary sources, more is allowed,less is not. No cover page,or bibliography required.TNR 12point font, 11/2 line spacing,Chicago style
citations,footnotes.)
Page 1,paragraph I:Introduce your Lit Review with your Abstract (topic, question,hypothesis).
Page 1,paragraph 2-5:Introduce the Lit Review.
This Lit review examines 8 peer-reviewed secondary sources dealing with XX themes of this RDP.
Three articles cover XXXX between 2000-2015 Three articles cover XXXX between 2005-2012
It also draws on observations from a comparative case-study in X…from2015. And,a theoretical framework drawn from the discipline of XXXX studies which provides a benchmark for how to conceptualize XXXX.
P.2-7 Discuss the sources.
P.8 Identify gaps in the research which your RDP will attempt to fill.
Overall thesis line of the review
This literature review should show this progression:
traditional communal body values in Fiji disruption under television and modernization escalation through peer influence, indirect media exposure, and eating pathology need to understand body anxiety in the contemporary digital era, where Fiji-specific research is limited
That last part leads directly into the gap.
source distribution
Here is the cleanest version of the whole paper:
Section 1
- Becker, Body, Self, and Society
Section 2
- Becker (2004), television and identity/body image in Fiji
- Williams et al. (2006), body dissatisfaction and thinness preference among Fijian and Australian girls
Section 3
- Becker et al. (2003), binge eating/BED in Fiji
- Becker et al. (2011), social network media exposure
- Gerbasi et al. (2014), peer influence and perceived social norms
Section 4
- Hussain et al. (2025), algorithmic beauty and filters
- Wu, Kemps, and Prichard (2024), eating-related social media content
- Fatt and Fardouly (2023), digital social evaluation
- Charmaraman, Linda, Amanda M. Richer, Cindy Liu, Alicia Doyle Lynch, and Megan A. Moreno. Early Adolescent Social MediaRelated Body Dissatisfaction: Associations with Depressive Symptoms, Social Anxiety, Peers, and Celebrities.
I have already written the first page which shows the section and article distribution and what each section should be focused on, it is provided in the file named Literature Review Doc, please write follow my first page and my writing style.Here is also a specific guideline if you need, but do not copy and paste since it is AI generated:
Section 1: Traditional Fijian body ideals and the cultural meaning of body/self
Source: Anne Becker, Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji
What this section should do
Explain the traditional Fijian understanding of the body before major Western media influence. Show that body ideals already existed, but they were different from Western thin-ideal culture.
Main points to include
- In traditional Fiji, the self is socially embedded rather than highly individualistic.
- The body is understood as connected to kinship, care, labor, and community life.
- A robust or well-formed body was generally valued because it reflected health, strength, and good care.
- Body shape mattered, but the body was not usually treated as a personal project to be reshaped through dieting or self-discipline.
- This section should establish that pre-globalization Fiji had a distinct cultural framework for understanding the body.
Main argument of the section
Traditional Fijian body ideals were communal and relational, not centered on thinness, self-surveillance, or individual body management. This cultural baseline is important because it makes later changes under media globalization historically meaningful.
Section 2: Initial transformation under television, modernization, and Western beauty ideals
Sources:
- Anne Becker, Television, Disordered Eating, and Young Women in Fiji
- Lauren K. Williams et al., Body Image Attitudes and Concerns among Indigenous Fijian and European Australian Adolescent Girls
What this section should do
Show the first major shift from traditional body values toward body dissatisfaction, thinness preference, and appearance-consciousness after the arrival of television and broader modernization.
Main points to include
- Television was introduced in Fiji in 1995 and became an important cultural turning point.
- Becker shows that television exposed girls to new lifestyles, appearance ideals, and possibilities for self-transformation.
- Girls began to model admired TV characters and compare themselves to mediated beauty standards.
- Becker also identifies growing body-shape concern, purging, and body disparagement.
- Williams et al. show that Fijian girls expressed body dissatisfaction and concern about weight gain, similar in some ways to Australian girls.
- At the same time, some traditional Fijian values still remained, so the shift was significant but incomplete.
Main argument of the section
The literature from this period shows the initial disruption of traditional Fijian body ideals. Television and modernization introduced new body comparisons and thinness-oriented ideals, beginning a transition toward greater body dissatisfaction.
Section 3: From body dissatisfaction to eating pathology peer influence, indirect media exposure, and social norms
Sources:
- Becker et al., Binge Eating and Binge Eating Disorder in a Small-Scale, Indigenous Society
- Becker et al., Social Network Media Exposure and Adolescent Eating Pathology in Fiji
- Gerbasi et al., Globalization and Eating Disorder Risk: Peer Influence, Perceived Social Norms, and Adolescent Disordered Eating in Fiji
What this section should do
Show how later scholarship moves beyond the simple idea that direct media exposure alone causes body distress. Explain that body anxiety and eating pathology become socially mediated through peers, social networks, and perceived norms.
Main points to include
- Becker et al. (2003) show that binge eating and BED-like symptoms emerged in Fiji, indicating that body distress had intensified into eating pathology.
- This article also shows that pathology was linked to dieting history, body-shape concern, and nontraditional beliefs about reshaping the body.
- Becker et al. (2011) argue that indirect media exposure through social networks may matter even more than direct exposure.
- Gerbasi et al. show that peer influence and perceived social norms are strongly associated with eating pathology.
- The literature in this section demonstrates that body-image pressure is shaped by social relationships, not just by media images themselves.
Main argument of the section
Later Fiji scholarship complicates the earlier media-effects model. Body dissatisfaction and eating pathology are better understood as socially mediated through peer influence, social norms, and indirect exposure, rather than through television alone.
Section 4: Persistence of body anxiety in the digital era comparative contemporary perspectives
Sources:
- Hussain et al., Manufacturing Beauty
- Wu, Kemps, and Prichard, Digging into Digital Buffets
- Fatt and Fardouly, Digital Social Evaluation
- Charmaraman, Linda, Amanda M. Richer, Cindy Liu, Alicia Doyle Lynch, and Megan A. Moreno. Early Adolescent Social MediaRelated Body Dissatisfaction: Associations with Depressive Symptoms, Social Anxiety, Peers, and Celebrities.
What this section should do
Explain why body anxiety remains significant in the contemporary period by using recent comparative scholarship on digital and social media. Make clear that these are not Fiji-specific studies, but they help explain likely contemporary mechanisms that are missing from the Fiji literature.
Main points to include
- Hussain et al. show that AI beauty filters, recommendation systems, and platform design intensify body dissatisfaction and Eurocentric beauty preferences.
- Wu, Kemps, and Prichard show through a systematic review that eating-related social media content is associated with body-image concerns and disordered eating.
- Fatt and Fardouly show that social media pressure is not only about seeing idealized images, but also about interactive feedback such as likes, comments, and follows.
- This section should emphasize that body-image pressure in the digital era is reinforced by filters, algorithms, comparison, and peer evaluation.
- The section must clearly state that these studies are comparative/theoretical support, not direct evidence about Fiji.
Main argument of the section
Although contemporary Fiji-specific research is limited, recent scholarship from other contexts suggests that body anxiety now persists through digital media structures such as algorithmic beauty culture, social comparison, and interactive peer evaluation.
Final section: Research gap
What this section should do
Synthesize the literature and explain what is still missing.
Main points to include
- Existing scholarship on Fiji has already documented traditional body ideals, the shift under television and modernization, and the role of peers and social norms in eating pathology.
- However, most Fiji-specific research focuses on the television era and earlier phases of globalization.
- There is much less research on how body anxiety operates in Fijis contemporary digital media environment.
- Important issues such as social media, beauty filters, algorithmic beauty standards, online self-presentation, and digital peer evaluation remain underexplored in Fiji.
- This gap justifies the present research project.
Main argument of the gap
The major gap in the literature is that while earlier studies explain how Western media and globalization transformed body ideals in Fiji, there is still limited research on how body anxiety is reproduced and experienced in Fiji under contemporary digital and social media conditions.
Flow reminder
The review should not read like eight separate article summaries. Each section should begin with a short topic sentence explaining the sections main theme, then discuss the relevant sources together, showing how they build on one another. The paper should move from traditional Fiji, to television-era change, to socially mediated pathology, and finally to the digital-era gap.