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1. www.bbc.com › future › articleThe complicated truth about social media and body image - BBC

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   Many of us suspect that the beautiful, often highly-edited images of people we see on social media make us feel worse about our own bodies. But what does the research say?

2. medium.com › modern-women › women-and-body-image-inWomen and Body Image in Media. The Good, The Bad, and The ...

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   May 6, 2024 · The extensive use of photo editing in magazines, advertising, and social media creates a distorted reality where women’s bodies are manipulated to appear flawless. This airbrushing can lead to...

3. www.hamilton.edu › news › storyThe Media's Effect on Women's Body Image - News - Hamilton ...

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   Sep 1, 2010 · As women have become increasingly aware of the effect of media on their body images, they have started media literacy programs to make women and girls more aware of the messages they are inadvertently consuming.

4. variety.com › 2021 › tvWomen, People of Color Make Gains in WarnerMedia DE&I Report

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   Oct 14, 2021 · WarnerMedia has logged single-digit growth in representation of women and people of color on both sides of the camera and in its workforce over the past year, according to the studio’s newly...

5. blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu › 2022/11/15 › theThe Filter Effect: What Does Comparing Our Bodies on Social ...

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   Nov 15, 2022 · A systematic review published in 2016 highlighted that photo-based activity on social media was linked to negative body image. In analyzing the roots of negative thoughts, studies have further shown that the activity of comparing ourselves is really what is detrimental to our own mental health.

6. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleIdealised media images: The effect of fitspiration imagery on ...

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   Sep 1, 2017 · The present study sought to determine how exposure to idealised fitness images (‘fitspiration’) affected women’s state body dissatisfaction relative to that of the traditional thin ideal, and to determine whether these images inspire exercise and promote actual engagement in exercise.

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   Do media images dissuade women from seeing their own body?

   • For these women, seeing media images does not dissuade them from viewing their own body as beautiful, and instead the images may remind them of ways their own body is beautiful. A similar dynamic can explain the weak correlations between body image and media exposure.

   Exposure to thin-ideal media affect most, but not all, women: Results

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   Does media exposure affect women's body image?

   • The existing evidence relies primarily on women’s self-reports of perceived pressure from the media to be slender or attractive, experiments assessing the effects of brief exposures to media, and correlational and prospective studies of media exposure and body image.

   Exposure to thin-ideal media affect most, but not all, women: Results

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   Do women feel dissatisfaction with media images?

   • In contrast to the saturation effect proposal, however, the current study suggests that many women do feel dissatisfaction in response to exposure to media images, both on the PEMES and on the Body Image States Scale. Media images may serve as a body image threat for some women, with brief exposures evoking negative feelings about the body. 4.3.2.

   Exposure to thin-ideal media affect most, but not all, women: Results

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   Do idealized female media images affect body image satisfaction and psychological wellbeing?

   • Sexuality & Culture, 20 ( 2016), pp. 936 - 964, 10.1007/s12119-016-9367-9 Predictors of vulnerability to reduced body image satisfaction and psychological wellbeing in response to exposure to idealized female media images in adolescent girls

   Exposure to thin-ideal media affect most, but not all, women: Results

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   Are media images a body image threat?

   • Media images may serve as a body image threat for some women, with brief exposures evoking negative feelings about the body. 4.3.2. Media drive different women in opposing directions

   Exposure to thin-ideal media affect most, but not all, women: Results

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   Do media affect body image?

   • If media do have important effects, then it is important to integrate media effects into existing theories and highlight media as important targets for intervention. Below, we briefly outline evidence for the perspectives that the media do have a substantial impact on body image, as well as the evidence for little or no media effects.

   Exposure to thin-ideal media affect most, but not all, women: Results

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8. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleExposure to thin-ideal media affect most, but not all, women ...

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   Dec 1, 2017 · Exposure to thin-ideal media is a positive experience for some women because it reminds them that their own body resembles the body type celebrated as ideal in the media, and reminds them of benefits (e.g., success, happiness) they receive because of their socially privileged body type.