Young Womens Exposure Of Medi Mass Media Vs. Social Media

Young Women’s Exposure to Media: Mass Media vs. Social Media As Williams and Ricciardelli (2014) point out in their literary review titled, â€Å"Social Media and Body Image Concerns: further considerations and broader perspectives,† which similar examines the relationship between social media and body consciousness, â€Å"†¦social media in our digital world are overtaking other forms of mass media, as the main medium, where the young and the not so young source information about body image ideals† (p. 389). It is important to realize the influence all media holds over our ideals, but with social media on the rise, it is especially important to examine how it can influences women’s perceptions of their own bodies. Tiggemann and Slater (2013)†¦show more content†¦They were then asked to rate how often they read each on a scale (0 = never, 1 = sometimes, 2 = almost every time it comes out). To determine the girls’ degree of Internet exposure, a four-part questionnaire was deve loped. It began by asking about access to the Internet – including questions about access in their homes and ownership of computers. The girls also reported how long they spent on the internet doing non-homework related activities per day and were asked to list three of their favorite websites. Furthermore, they were asked whether or not their parents set rules about when or what they could look at on the Internet. Finally, participants were asked if they had a MySpace profile; and if so how, much time they spent on it, whether their profile was public or private, and the number of â€Å"friends† they had. The participants were asked the same questions for Facebook and asked to list any other social networking sites that they used. Next, four separate sets of questions - focusing on internalization, body surveillance, body esteem, and dieting – were presented. Using the Sociocultural Internalization of Media Ideals Scale, which asks seven questions that can be a nswered using a three-point scale (0 = no, 1 = sometimes, 2 = yes), researchers assessed whether or not girls internalize the thin ideal present in the media. To determine if girls think of