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Lizzy Braby
Griffin
English 1010
12/18/15
Influence of Social media on Body Image-Annotated Bibliography

Becker, Anne. Burwell, Rebecca. Herzog, David. Hamburg, Paul. Gilman, Stephen. Eating
Behaviors and attitudes following prolonged exposure to television among ethic Fijian
adolescent girls. June 2002. The British Journal of Psychiatry.

The main idea of this research done by many British journalists, was to evaluate the
impact of Western Television on eating disorders among (indigenous) Fijian adolescent girls. In
this research paper about the influences western television has on girls, it gives you data
collection, study in population, Quantitative data, and many other resources to help give
information. Fiji was selected to study because of the low prevalence of eating disorders
reported. It also was chosen because of the lack of exposure to TV until mid-1995. Studies have
been reported in the Western Hemisphere, that exposure to media triggers a need to be like the
photo shopped girls on TV. Now they are going to study somewhere where their values and
practices encourage robust appetites. This relates to the topic of how media influences the Body
Image of girls.
This research is credible in that the source is part of the Google Scholar and is done by
BJsych, a famous British journal of Psychiatry. It is an online and private journal for member
ship only if you want more information and to follow all research done by the British

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Journalists. Subscribers have been thoroughly pleased when looking up information about the
web-journal. The British Journal have many research papers on all different topics. It seems to
be a very likable and reliable website. The research has many details and tons of information
included.
I enjoyed reading about the research done by the British Journalists. The interesting part
of this whole research paper is that the influence of Western TV on Fijian Girls came out
negative. Studies show from this that people raised on robust traditional eating and values are
highly unlikely to have body image problems and rarely become anorexic. The other sources
Ive read on this topic are how much of an influence Western Television and social media trigger
body image problems in girls in the Western U.S. This is different because they actually
researched an ethnic race and saw if that would have an effect on a girl that has been raised very
differently and in a different culture where not everything revolves around looking good and
fit. I would use this paper in a research essay done by myself because of the great information
and experiment done.

Turner, Sherry. Hamilton, Heather. Jacobs, Meija. Angood, Laurie. Dwyer, Deanne. The
influence of fashion magazines on the body image satisfaction of college women: Fall
1997. ProQuest

The main idea of this article is about the influence fashion magazines have on young
adults. The impact of exposure to fashion magazines on womens body image satisfaction was
researched and examined by ProQuest a scholarly article widely known for its research on all

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topics. The researchers randomly assigned 39 undergraduate women, half of them viewed
fashion magazines prior to completing a body image satisfaction survey, and the other half, news
magazines. The researchers hypothesized that that the women who viewed fashion magazines
wanted thinner bodies and were more frustrated by their weight and body image. As
hypothesized, they were more self-conscious about the way they looked and were constantly
scared of gaining weight. The researches vividly state that contemporary American women
cover an unrealistically thin body, a phenomenon that could be horrible for their physical as well
as emotional health. Throughout the decades the change to how women precieve their bodies
has drastically changed. In the earlier years, women wanted to be thicker and have more meat on
them because that was considered beautiful. Now-a-days, whats considered beautiful is 100
pound 57 girls with thin stick legs and no muscle or meat on their bodies. Most of which are
photo shopped onto fashion magazines to make them look better than they actually are. With
this research done, there is evidence to why social media can hurt womens views on their own
body image.
The source is credible in that the source is from google Scholar. After reading a little
about the ProQuest research, they seemed to be fairly popular and have great evidence to their
research. This research was done awhile back in 1997, but the information is still applicable
today. The researchers names are familiar to many and have been in a fair amount of research
projects that go viral and are popular. One con to this website is you cannot access everything
unless you make an account or join them. This article is similar to many others Ive read but Id
still use it as a resource in a personal research paper done by myself.
I really love this topic of women and body image. In this article I learned some new
information on how women used to be compared to how they are now. The researchers

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hypothesis was actually correct which made things a little more serious. I would definitely use
the information I learned from this small article in a paper. It has great information and a great
hypothesis and resources. Today, in this crazy and judgmental world, girls have such low selfesteem. Women all over the world look through fashion magazines and all types of magazines
with girls who are unrealistic and become more self-conscious about their own appearance
instead of being confident in who they are. I think how you view yourself is essential to
succeeding. Having confidence in yourself will make you successful and happy.

Knorr, Caroline. Is Social Media Giving Your Teen a Negative Body Image. Parenting, Media,
and Everything in between.April 2014. Common Sense Media

The main idea of this article is how kids are exposed to so many things that increase
anxiety about looking perfect. This article is a study done by Caroline, a researcher working
for Common Sense Media for parents. It isnt just the unrealistic body images in magazines, it is
on social media like Instagram, Snapchat, and other messaging apps in your own society.
According to Common Sense Media, teens who are active online worry a lot about how they are
perceived and dissatisfaction appears to be on the rise in the Unites States. According to a study
done by Keep it Real Campaign, 80 percent of 10-year-old American girls have been on a diet
already in their short life. Having problems with body image doesnt just happen overnight. The
whole idea of body image is a complex phenomenon influenced by many things. Including more
than just social media and magazines.
The source citation is not very credible. It is a website that is not scholarly and has many
opinions of adults that may not be appropriate. The research was interesting, but some of the

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things said were not quite professional. It didnt have much evidence behind its research and it
gave off a feel of almost a teenager writing this. It did catch attention because it wasnt all
complex words and statistics but, it also wasnt done by professional researchers with a bunch of
evidence to support the hypothesis. Common Sense Media does have many viewers mainly
because of its dramatic research. The viewers seem to have different opinions and many
arguments could occur in this article because of the presentation of the words. Therefore, I
wouldnt use this in a research paper done by myself. It doesnt compare to the amount of
profession done by other scholarly researchers in their own experiments and knowledge.
I enjoyed reading this article for a while and then I realized it wasnt professional. I did
realize that having an Instagram and Snapchat does promote body image problems. I have seen
it with my own two eyes. But I also learned that we need to learn to value ourselves as complex
individuals. It isnt all about the perfect skin and hair, its about a beautiful soul and great
personality. Although this article didnt give much evidence and didnt seem too credible, there
were many good things said in it that could inspire you to love yourself no matter what.

Navigate Study Guide. Body Image and the Media. January 2016. Enotes

The main idea of this article was done by researchers from the website Enotes. This
article is a Navigate Study Guide for teachers and students. It is about how body image is
formed by comparing yourself to others and for being exposed to countless number or media
sources. The negative impact of media leads to dissatisfaction of yourself which can cause many
problems in your life. Some problems that can occur are depression, low self-esteem, and

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horrible eating disorders. All of these are terrible on your physical and mental lifestyle. Because
of all the media sources available to the eye, people, but mostly girls in general, feel more
pressure to be like the girls on the magazines and up on the billboards. The unrealistic, photo
shopped women that are on extreme diets to keep their body thin. The ideal body changed
throughout decades in the past, but since the 1960s becoming thinner has been the
phenomenon.
The source shows credibility in the fact that thousands of students, teachers, and
researchers use it every day. In order to see all the research, you have to join Enotes and
participate in their program. It is a very safe website and looks professional. The articles are
well put together and have a ton of information throughout the whole research paper. It is done
in 3rd person and has evidence and heavily shows the knowledge and research done by the
author. Enotes is fairly popular throughout the world and has many people supporting them.
I absolutely loved this paper done by Enotes researchers. It was well put together and I
learned new information that lead to great questions forming in my head. I learned that since the
1960s women have always wanted thin bodies. During the 1920s the ideal body image was
known as a flapper. Girls that were thin and flat-chested. But in late 1930s, during the hard
times of the Great Depression, girls became curvier. The went back to a relatively thinner
appearance during World War 2. There were people like Marilyn Monroe who were proud of
their thicker body and became famous for it. And then there were the models in the magazines
that were thin and beautiful. All the extra information in this research paper made it so
interesting to me. I would definitely use this to help with a research paper done on Body Image
and Id use the extra information for entertainment and fascinating knowledge.

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Fox, Kate. Mirror, Mirror. A summary of research findings on body image. June 19977. SircSocial Issues Research Centre

The main idea of this research done by Kate Fox is all different research findings on body
image. The rise of mass media has caused normal concerns about how we look to become an
obsession in lives at extremely young ages. Because of the billboards, magazines, and TV, we
have become accustomed to seeing beautiful people all the time, making good looks seem real
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and normal. What people see in the mirror is different for everyone. There are many beautiful
people who are still not satisfied with the way they look. Other people may think she or he is
vain, but they really are self-conscious and are dissatisfied with their appearance. Research done
today has shown women are more critical of their appearance than men. It has shown that
women are judged more on their appearance and standards of beauty are higher. Therefore, puts
a lot of stress and pressure on the women to keep themselves satisfied and their audience or
peers.
The source is fairly credible in that it is SIRC, a well-known website. It features research
done by different people everywhere. It doesnt have anyones comments on it or opinions of
others. There were a few things that made it seem like it wasnt the best but it was still good.
There were a few errors in spelling and punctuation. But overall it was a pretty resourceful
website and paper.
I enjoyed reading this article because it was set up differently than any other research
paper I have read. The author talks about the main ideas on the first page and then goes into
further and further detail on the other pages. It made me think in even more depth than I had

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been and brought advanced questions in my mind that can only be answered with further
research. It gave me a bunch of statistics and research that showed the percentages of people
struggling at a certain age and the ratios of the many differences of men and women in this
particular topic. I definitely would use a good chunk of this paper in my research paper because
of the way she worded and made you truly understand this concept of Body Image. The
researcher made it so there were many ways to view it at certain parts. I would use the statistics
throughout my whole paper that I found out reading this informational research paper.

Wiseman, Eva. Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report. June 2012. The Guardian

The main idea of this article by Eva Wiseman is about how everyone feels in their own
skin. Also, what influences us to think the way we do in this generation. In this article it is all in
first person. Many statistics and stories of people are included making the story intriguing and
relatable. For example, one celebrity whose body is analyzed all the time is Lauren Goodger.
There are 546 headlines on her and her body appearance that are degrading to her personally.
Because of all the things said by people all around the world, she has joined a drastic diet
plan. Her story is different because she has dealt with a eating disorder in her family. At age
11, Lauren Goodgers 11 year-old sister became anorexic. Goodger states, It all started with
someone at school calling her Miss Piggy. I mean, I didnt even know about dieting until I was
18. Things have changed so muchits crazy. Shes a baby

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confident in yourself all the time is nearly impossible with the ongoing urge to look like thin
models that are advertised everywhere we go. Studies have shown that at age 7, dissatisfaction
of the body begins. Throughout the years of your life the pressure to be thinner, more beautiful,

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and sexy just get worse with more understanding and anxiety of your body. There are many
stories similar to Lauren Goodgers that are all based around the ongoing subject of body image.
But because of the constant pressure of looking like someone else and always comparing
yourself to unrealistic figure on magazines, the depression rate in women has doubled between
2000-2010. The rates are even higher now in 2016. With all this going on, women need to value
self-worth and individual confidence to help them be successful and happy throughout their life.
We cant be convinced of this phenomenon going on, that we are any less of a person because of
our bodies.
This resource was credible in that it is written by a great researcher and it was published
to a famous website, The Guardian. The Guardian has many research papers and articles written
published to it. They are easily accessed and are full of great information. This paper included
examples of real people, included statistics, and used other resources to better help understand
the topic of body image. It was not biased towards anything that would be offensive and was
well written.
This was by far the most interesting article I have read. It doesnt even give justice to any
of the other resources. Because it is done in first person I believe it catches attention better. It
was consistently interesting through the whole thing and it completely had my attention. I would
definitely use it in a research paper done by myself. Because of all the relatable stories and
resources used within this article, it gave you a real feel to how big of a problem this topic has
become to people in this generation. I learned many new things in this research done by Eve
Wiseman. For example, many women say they are too self- aware to exercise in public. And
many say they drink to feel comfortable about their bodies and feel a little bit more confident in
themselves. It states, About 50% of women smoke to suppress their appetite- is it too strong to

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suggest that these things, these anxieties, are slowly killing them? Girls need to feel
comfortable in their skin and enjoy life instead of worry and have so much stress and anxiety to
look like a stick that ultimately, in the end, is still not happy with herself. Theres a line that
needs to be drawn with what we release on social media to try to prevent so much depression and
body image issues in women and many men as well.

Mascarelli, Amanda. The medias dangerous influence on body image. Body & Health, Brain,
Behavior. Septemeber 2014. Student Science

The main idea of this article done by Amanda Leigh Mascarelli is based off of the study
done by Anne Becker, an expert on eating disorders at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Its
an overview and second account to that story summarizing the experiment done in Fiji. It states,
Anne Becker chose to study girls in Fiji for two reasons. The first- Until the mid-1990s,
doctors had reported only one case of anorexia nervosa in this entire country. The second:
People in remote areas of Fiji had almost no exposure to television until 1995. Fijis culture
valued large, robust and strong boned women, until recently. Because of the exposure to western
television and other influences, in 1998, Becker took a small survey of girls in Fiji, and sure
enough, slightly more the 1 out of 10 of them reported having vomited to lose weight. Just three
years before, Becker couldnt find a single report of a girl in Fiji who had purged-vomited to
manage weight.
The resource was credible in that it was a well-respected website for young adults and
kids. The website is called, Science News for Students. It is open to all students everywhere.
You do have to join the website to gain full access to all the research done, but it is an accurate

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website and I have evidence to prove its credibility. I read the actual research done by Becker
and all the information matched up to Mascarellis overview of the experiment done. This article
was published on September 19, 2014. It was accurate and contained statistics and real
experiments done in Fiji.
I liked reading a simpler version of the work done in Fiji by Becker. It wasnt as
complex and it was a lot easier to read. I would use the information in both because it is accurate
and the same. Although this is a great experiment and paper, it doesnt have much other
information on body image, or resources involved. Unlike the other articles Ive read, it is an
actual experiment that was done in Fiji for years and years which is extremely amazing and
useful. I learned that Western television does have an effect on girls and the way they view
themselves. The outcome is not necessarily good but at least the researchers are getting answers
to their questions.