Social Media Has a Negative Effect on Body Image and Self ...

Dove recently conducted a social media survey--and combining their findings with Twitter data, reached some pretty shocking conclusions:

· Women wrote more than 5 million negative tweets in 2014.

· Four out of every five negative beauty tweets from women were about themselves.

· Women are 50 percent more likely to say something negative (rather than positive) about themselves on social media.

And it's not like women like all the negativity we encounter on our screens. I mean, I know I don't like it...and it seems, according to the survey findings, that's the general consensus. In fact, "82 percent of women feel the...

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Over the years, i have written numerous posts about social media, social software, social networks and other industry-relevant topics. Colleagues often remark that it is difficult to sift through my personal blog...

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Boyd, D. M, Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites ...

Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.

Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs...

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Date: 2017-03-10 09:02:44
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Boyd, D. M, Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites ...

Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.

Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and...

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Date: 2017-03-10 08:41:03
Website: http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org

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