...Social media and Self-esteem Anh Phung Abstract In this day and age, social media has become an integral part of our lives. It has created a platform for people to share information instantly and communicate with people all around the world. Facebook is the most outstanding example of successful social media network. According to the first quarter 2015 earnings announcement by Facebook, the site has achieved 1.44 billion active users per month, and 65% of which are daily active users. Other social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn are also a powerful means of communication. With such a large audience, social networking sites provide ample opportunities to acquire information, network, and connect with friends. Besides from the obvious benefits that social media brings to our lives, there are some other effects that it has on its users’ wellbeing. This paper examines how people’s tendency when using social networking sites affects their level of self-esteem. Introduction The introduction of social media has revolutionized the way people interact, since social interactions can now take place anywhere that has Internet coverage. Thanks to social media, people no longer need to meet face-to-face in order to know how another person is doing. Social networking sites serve as a place for users to share information about themselves, from the simplest things like what they have for dinner and who they hang out with, to more personal things like their thoughts...
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...Research Paper on Digital Media and Self-Esteem Name Institution Course Date Introduction The study was about researching and analyzing whether the digital world boosts self-esteem. The research helps the effect of social media and the technological advancements that have occurred in the recent past on an individual’s personality and self-esteem. The study has incorporated digital ethnography and social networking analysis to critically examine and analyze the focus groups at hand. Social networking sites are an important aspect in the digital world and involve increased networking of existing and compound relations which goes beyond close friends. It is a conglomerate friendship and relations of friends of friends. Technology has made vast and significant changes in social dynamics. It tends to both affect people in the society by either making them comfortable and uncomfortable thus affecting their self-esteem (Meadows, 2003, P. 23). The process of transferring human contact into the world through creating complete, genuine and reliable social inter-connections seems to affect one’s self-esteem. These social groups can be sampled and used as focus groups which can be used as an analysis of behavior for the entire society as a whole. The study is important in addressing the behaviors of participants in a focus group relevant to the overall effect of the digital world relevant to the self-esteem of individuals in the society. The Existing Literature Review Technology, social...
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...India Study, 2011 published by Trust Research Advisory ranked Cadbury in the top 100 most trusted brands list (Trustadvisory.info). It is one of the best-managed companies and best workplaces in India, and a highly trusted and respected brand. 1.The background of crisis. On October 3rd 2003, just a month before Diwali, two bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate were found infested at a shop in Mumbai. Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) get complaint from consumer, who seized the chocolate stocks manufactured at Cadbury’s Pune plant. An inquiry was setup by the FDA to investigate into the infestation complaints, to determine whether this was a stray incident or is it one to add to the numbers. There is a clear message in every media, which is there were worm inside Cadbury chocolates and it became a major subject of discussion for the next ten days. There have 1000 newspaper articles and 120 TV news reported in 10 languages. Consumers started to against Cadbury and there is a symbol of disrepute and blame within these few days. Cadbury made a statement and announced, “the hygienic conditions in the factory are more than satisfactory; it is impossible for infestation to occur during the manufacturing process” and poor storage at the retailers was the most likely cause of the reported case of worms. However, FDA said defective packaging is the reason of worms got into the chocolate at the storage level. That was followed by allegations and counter-allegations between Cadbury...
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...The affects of media on young girls self esteem and body issues Courtney Rasmussen College This research is being submitted on February 23, 2011, for E150 Success strategies course at Rasmussen College by Courtney The extreme amount of pressure to look a certain way is becoming increasingly hard on young girls. With movies and print showing more skin and adult situations intended for pre-teens and teens alike. Sexuality is also being aimed at a younger audience now days, leaving most of them having a hard time just being themselves. Because of the amount of pressure put on young girls by the media, staggering amounts of adolescent girls have low self esteem and are facing body issues. Media has put a great deal of emphasis on looks for some time now, however the average body size is not correctly displayed in magazines, commercials or movies.“The average American woman is 5'4", weighs 140 lbs, and wears a size 14 dress. The "ideal" woman portrayed by models, Miss America, Barbie dolls, and screen actresses is 5'7", weighs 100 lbs, and wears a size 8” (Lacey,n.d.). How is this affecting our up and coming teenage girls? The characters intended for the younger generation in movies are ultimately played by very sensual women in their twenties. Most of the popular movies today, the leading roles are not played by teens, but are aimed at them. How can you compare the body of a twenty something actress to that of a still developing teenager? The media places unfair comparisons...
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...Media has been and still is a part of the childhood world. In many countries, children spend a lot of time consuming many different kinds of media. The negative impact of media on children's idea of their body images and self-esteem has been a controversial topic and it is a concern for many parents with children. Today's society seems to be teaching women and young females that their self-worth is more about beauty and their bodies and less about their intelligence and personalities. Meanwhile young girls are constantly reminded of ''perfection'', most being extremely thin waistlines, long shiny hair and alluring features, how do you think males would feel if we all compared them to handsome Disney princes, such as Prince Charming or Adam?...
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...The Media and Self – Esteem When you hear the word media and self – esteem, what comes in your mind? Maybe some of you think that media are the technologies and reporters, and self – esteem is being confident to yourself and abilities. But then, what are their relationships? Our world is full of media; it reaches people to communicate widely in our society. In today’s life, all of us grow in a society where people can’t avoid the media. Even our parents, our Lolo and Lola, our Tita and Tito, who are not expose to this sort of influences, and not susceptible to the impact that social media may have on individuals. In the past few years, some speculations to as of what those impacts might be are underway. Almost everyone asked this question: is the media killing your self – esteem? One interesting fact that I research about social media says that girls spend more time using the internet than the boys do. In our society, is it already common for the other girls to have a bad issue about their self than the boys? And could this internet usage be pushing that even further? Maybe there is an impact because the media somehow forces us to transform or change our perceptions of ourselves. And most of all, we constantly comparing others to an ideal that probably isn’t very realistic like fairytale. In another way, our self – esteem also possible to be affected in social media sites. For example, in Facebook, it is the most used of all other sites with almost 750 million likes, shares...
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...lowered sense of self-esteem. The perception has been that females have a underlying lack of trust in their own merit and this gender-based, diminished self-esteem has restrained females success. Whether this perception is accurate and, if so, investigating the underlying causes for lowered female self-esteem have been a major topics for researchers. While debate about levels of self-esteem as it relates to gender differences persist, an increasing number of peer-reviewed, scientifically sound studies have recently examined the implications of nature versus nurture, or inborn versus environmental factors, on the development of self-esteem....
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...Empty Vessel: Self-esteem Concerns in young girls Gonzalo Melendez University of Texas in El Paso Abstract This paper will take a look at the different dynamics of the rising the issue of the continued decrease in self-esteem in young girls. This paper will inform you of the age that self-esteem becomes a factor in a young girl’s life. It will also address the multiple causes that affect self-esteem in young girls. It will explain the long-term effects that come with low self-esteem and low self-image. Finally it will highlight ways to help mitigate and prevent low self-esteem in young girls in our society. Intro 12 year old Lana wakes up one morning looks in the mirror and thinks “Ewe why are not pretty.” “I really hate the way my jeans look on me.” “I wish I was smart.” The thought process behind a young girls mind today is a scary one. “Today we define self-esteem as ‘positive or negative attitude toward one’s self’’ and can be viewed as a key indicator of a healthy psychological well-being.” (Daniel Clay, 2005). Self-esteem can be fragile and can be easy shattered. Body image is central to adolescent girls’ self- definition, because others have socialized them to believe that appearance is an important basis for self-evaluation and for evaluation. (Daniel Clay, 2005) Poor self-image is a growing issue among most young girls in today’s society. When you think of poor self-image, most people think immediately of looks, but the truth is poor self-image is also how...
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...in the Media According to Dove Research, The Real Truth about Beauty, only 4% of women around the world consider themselves beautiful (“Surprising Self Esteem Statistics”). Women in the media are shown as having a body type that is unrealistic and impractical. Although mass media has many negative effects on today’s women, including low self-esteem, an increase in eating disorders and an inaccurate definition of beauty, advertisements and thin models can also serve as role-model and as inspiration. From dolls to Victoria’s Secret models, women are exposed to all types of media images that portray “the thin ideal” from a very early age. Media pressure to be thin can cause individuals to have negative thoughts about their appearance. According to psychologist Tiffanie Domil, “Body image is the way people perceive themselves, and the way they believe others perceive them” (“The Influence of Media Images”). Therefore body image is all about what we see about ourselves, and our opinions of our bodies, even though they opinions may not be exactly true. For example, one woman might think she is overweight when in reality she is perfectly healthy. There have been multiple studies done to connect media to women’s low self-esteem. One example of the effects of media is in Fiji in 1995, when televisions were introduced. Statistics show that after 38 months of being exposed to media, females started to be more conscious about their bodies and even started dieting (“The Media”). 74%...
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...Images of Beauty Dana Alkhandak #106621937, Group D Psychology 10 October 2, 2013 Rough Draft #1 Adolescence is a time of both delicate concern about social acceptance as well as self-conscious obsession with self-image and identity. Becoming more aware of society's selective standards, many youngsters look to the media for guiding on the "ideal" way to look and act. Teenagers have more access to images from the media that sponsor a growing acceptance of makeup, fragrances and unnatural beauty, their self-esteems becomes dependent on an unnatural and constructed thought of beauty. The images promoted and portrayed in the media, can be harmful and have dangerous impacts on the lives' of many individuals. The images revealed and published by the media harmful effects begin the minute they start being used for entertainment and sale purposes; however, it doesn't stop there, the images can also be demeaning the self-esteems of individuals as well as creating unhealthy habits that teenagers find the need to follow. Everyday more ads are being released whether it's for a newly engineered face wash or the season's latest sweater. Quickly as soon as the item is advertised, teenagers run to the nearest shopping malls to get their hands on the "Oh, So GREAT" invention, without realizing the price worth of the item. Therefore, now the happy teen picks out the item and gets to the checkout stand, later to discover that the item is $150. At that point, the teen has two...
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...Media Research Assignment: Body Image “If your hair isn’t beautiful, the rest hardly matters” (an ad for shampoo). A woman in a diet ad exults, “I’d probably never be married now if I hadn’t lost 49 pounds.” Society never noticed beauty because it is too busy trying to create it. What role is media playing in the effects it has on people? Today's media in America affects social standards, and many often identify the media as their primary source of information. The mass media serves as a mediating structure between individuals and how we address identity by sending a powerful message to society: only a determined physical stereotype of beauty is valued. Reiterated by other primary agents of socialization, such as families, peers and schools, the idea is taken seriously by individuals. Body image is a complicated aspect of the self-concept that concerns an individual's perceptions and feelings about their body and physical appearance. Media negatively affects body image through ideal appearance, health issues and self-esteem. Effects of Advertisement: Society is extremely immersed in media. Media portrays the ideal body image negatively and impacts ideal appearance through magazines, commercials, and advertisement. The mass media's depiction of women portrays a standard of beauty that is unrealistic and unattainable for a majority of women in society. For example, Amy Finley, a community leader advocating advice for women, discusses a healthy message that women shouldn't...
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...the effect of mass media on young girls. In today’s society, the media is frequently critiqued on the ways in which it represents women. The media often glamorizes women and displays unrealistic images of beauty that are practically unobtainable. Another problem with media in today’s society is that it is reaching girls at increasingly younger ages. The research articles discussed will specifically look at how media is effecting girls that fall into the youth and adolescent category, with girls as young as five years old. The first article to be discussed looks at peer and media influences on body image concerns in young girls...
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...Introduction When most people look at certain images in the media of people, they come to a fairly quick response. These responses can be both positive and negative. The reason this topic had stood out among others was to see the impact of how these images do effect woman. This topic is important based solely on the fact that everyone should be comfortable in their own skin and the media has portrayed images of how everyone should look and feel about themselves. By using the article The Positive and Negative Media Image Effects on the Self which is based on experients done to test how woman react to certain body types in the media and how it effects their self esteem. After reading this article we conducted our own ad campaign for Lu Lu lemon. This campaign is directed at using the positive side of media images especially in the younger generations. We feel this campaign can be successful by using images of everyday people so that everyone can relate and feel good about being themselves. The Positive and Negative Media Image Effects on the Self. The article written by Dirk Smeesters and Naomi Mandel is a summary of research towards images of models to woman and how it effects there self esteem. The research has shown that images of thin woman have been known to cause self enhancement and some negative self image. The first part of the research that was studied was how certain woman reacted to extreme body images as well as moderate body images. They would be shown an extremely...
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...Is social media to blame for the rise in narcissism? To answer that you must first understand the difference between narcissism and self-esteem. Narcissists feel superior to others, believe that they are entitled to privileges, and crave admiration. They think the world revolves around them and it would be a much better place if it revolved around them. And when it doesn't they lash out aggressively. People with high self-esteem, by contrast, feel satisfied with themselves as a person, but don't see themselves as better than others. Parents intuitively believe that high self-esteem is the key to success, health, and well-being. They try to raise self-esteem by telling children they are unique and extraordinary. We as parents should make our...
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...local theaters, all of these forms of entertainment seem to be harmless outlets of creativity. Yet these very forms of media affect women all over the world and tell them what they should physically look like to be deemed as beautiful in society. One may not believe that the media is up to such a terrible act, but subconsciously women believe what the media portrays as beautiful. Today’s pop culture demonstrates the impact of self-image and the effect it has on society and the way the society should look. Ads and pop culture enforce a negative outlook on the body image, which affects young women throughout the society. There are many aspects of today’s society that effect women within this pop culture and the way they have started to look at their bodies and see themselves as below average because they are not measuring up to the standards of society. In all reality, media and advertisement must know the effects it has on the young women and their body image in the world, but choose to ignore the fact because of the success that has sky rocketed in the past years. Not many people can ignore the media and find themselves beautiful no matter what features they have, but the ones who do such things are confident and strong while growing up in this tough and harsh world. Ads within television, magazines, newspapers, etc. all have some direct correlation to the media having an effect on the body image of young teens. These ads show beautiful models with long skinny legs, blonde hair...
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