{"id":84,"date":"2016-05-09T00:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/?p=84"},"modified":"2016-05-09T00:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T00:31:33","slug":"response-social-medias-influence-on-the-female-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/2016\/05\/09\/response-social-medias-influence-on-the-female-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Response: Social Media’s Influence on the Female Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really enjoyed\u00a0Kelly’s presentation on\u00a0social media’s influence on the\u00a0perception of the female image<\/strong>. It had several\u00a0noteworthy and important points\u00a0worth discussing.<\/p>\n

I found that one of the\u00a0most interesting points\u00a0Kelly\u00a0made was that the rather sexist and objectifying beauty standards that\u00a0women are held to\u00a0is a problem that didn’t\u00a0necessarily emerge\u00a0from\u00a0the use of social media<\/strong>, but rather is something that has always existed but is simply\u00a0more obvious<\/strong>\u00a0now that there are so many media outlets at the fingertips of teenage users.<\/p>\n

Society and myself included tend to blame social media for\u00a0the origins of these standards, but in reality, it could be that this is a problem that originated long ago. With this in mind, changing the way we use social media\u00a0won’t necessarily rid people of\u00a0the everyday gender biases we innately think about and act upon. It’s an attitude problem, not one of technology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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That being said, however, there is some truth in saying that social media has amplified these standards<\/strong> to a much higher degree than before. With the use of media platforms such as\u00a0Instagram and Facebook,\u00a0it is typical for trends and\u00a0expectations to emerge about\u00a0what people should and shouldn’t post, especially depending on their characteristics such as gender. Women, for example, are expected to post more girly and sexualized content, whereas even boys are subjected to expectations of posting content that\u00a0makes them seem more masculine. It is these expectations that amplify the already prevalent gender stereotypes that exist in people’s heads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From personal experience, I often find myself getting overwhelmed with not only running several of my social media accounts, but also trying to fit myself into the expectations that come with it. The whole sharing aspect\u00a0also makes it\u00a0extremely difficult to\u00a0not compare my\u00a0experiences and life to those of others. I personally have nothing against social media, and love the fact that people can share special parts of their life with others, but its use\u00a0should be about the user, not about fitting into societal norms and trying to one-up one another<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Overall, I found it a very relatable and relevant presentation.<\/p>\n

Images Cited<\/p>\n

http:\/\/wojdylosocialmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/social-media.jpg<\/p>\n

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I really enjoyed\u00a0Kelly’s presentation on\u00a0social media’s influence on the\u00a0perception of the female image. It had several\u00a0noteworthy and important points\u00a0worth discussing. I found that one of the\u00a0most interesting points\u00a0Kelly\u00a0made was that the rather sexist and objectifying beauty standards that\u00a0women are held to\u00a0is a problem that didn’t\u00a0necessarily emerge\u00a0from\u00a0the use of social media, but rather is something that … Continue reading Response: Social Media’s Influence on the Female Image<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":130,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"lcosgrove","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/author\/lcosgrove\/"},"qubely_comment":130,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"I really enjoyed\u00a0Kelly’s presentation on\u00a0social media’s influence on the\u00a0perception of the female image. It had several\u00a0noteworthy and important points\u00a0worth discussing. I found that one of the\u00a0most interesting points\u00a0Kelly\u00a0made was that the rather sexist and objectifying beauty standards that\u00a0women are held to\u00a0is a problem that didn’t\u00a0necessarily emerge\u00a0from\u00a0the use of social media, but rather is something that…","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/lcosgrove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}