This week, I read the article Body Image and Social Media Use Among Emerging Adults: The Mediating Role of Appearance Comparisons by Fardouly and Vartanian (2016). The study examines how social media usage influences body dissatisfaction among young adults through the mechanism of appearance-based social comparison. Using a large sample of college aged participants, the …
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This week I read the article “Influence of social media exposure on body image: An experimental study of Instagram use and body dissatisfaction among college women” by Kleemans et al. (2018). The study explores how idealized Instagram content affects female college students’ perceptions of attractiveness, mood, and self-esteem. Participants who viewed “fitspiration” and beauty influencer …
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This week, I read the article Influence of Appearance-Based Social Media Use on Body Image and Eating Behavior in Young Women by Brown and Tiggemann (2023). The authors examined how frequent exposure to beauty-focused and diet-centered content on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok affects young women’s self-perception and eating habits. Their findings show that …
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This week, I read the article NetGirls: The Internet, Facebook, and body image concern in adolescent girls by Tiggemann and Slater (2017). The authors conducted a longitudinal study exploring how Facebook use relates to body image concerns among adolescent girls over time. They found that increased Facebook use predicted greater internalization of the thin ideal …
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Looking back on the first half of the semester, I feel that my research has been progressing steadily toward the goals I set at the beginning. My main aim was to build a strong theoretical foundation connecting social media use, body image anxiety, and eating behaviors among young women. I am proud that I have …
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This week I read the article Social Media Effects on Young Women’s Body Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives and an Agenda for Research by Perloff (2014). The article reviews the emerging research on how social media shapes young women’s body image and eating concerns, emphasizing theoretical frameworks such as social comparison theory and objectification theory. Perloff …
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This week I read the article Social comparisons on social media: The impact of Facebook on young women’s body image concerns and mood by Fardouly, Diedrichs, Vartanian, and Halliwell (2015). The study investigates how brief exposure to Facebook affects women’s mood, body dissatisfaction, and perceived discrepancies in weight/shape, face, hair, and skin. The researchers compared …
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This week I read the article A systematic review of the impact of the use of social networking sites on body image and disordered eating outcomes by Holland and Tiggemann (2016). The authors review 20 empirical studies examining the relationship between social networking site use and body image concerns. Their findings suggest consistent links between …
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Published September 12, 2025 by Weinala Hailati One media product that closely inspires my project is the documentary Miss Representation (Newsom, 2011). Although the film broadly examines how media shapes women’s self-perceptions and societal opportunities, what I found most compelling was its ability to balance individual stories with expert analysis. The film combines interviews with …
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This week I read the article “Social Media Use and Body Image Disorders: Association Between Frequency of Comparing One’s Own Physical Appearance to Others’ Physical Appearance on Social Media and Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorders” by Fardouly et al. (2015). The study investigates how frequent appearance-related comparisons on social media platforms are linked to negative …
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