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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:51, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello.--Ajcart06 (talk) 17:44, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there! Thanks for helping me today.Conchademar (talk) 18:12, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
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editSources Cited Through Wikipedia Tortajada; Araüna; Martínez. "Advertising Stereotypes and Gender Representation in Social Networking Sites". Grupo Comunicar. 21. Summary: This article focuses on the way gender is advertised in Social Media. I think that this is interesting because this is one of the articles I was originally searching for when I was editing the Gender Advertisement wiki. It describes the idea that for men and women of today to break gender stereotypes it needs to be through social media. To break down those stereotypes we need to educate our children better in organizing thoughts on social media and how to use it effectively and safely. In the article, it also analyzes specific images of people and gives these images names and identities. I somewhat disagree with their identification of these pictures. In all the journal is well written and I hope to use the ideas from the beginning of it to write my research paper.
Meier, Evelyn; Gray, James. "Facebook Photo Activity Associated with Body Image Disturbance in Adolescent Girls". CYBERPSYCHOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AND SOCIAL NETWORKING. 17. Summary: This article specifically focused on Facebook as a platform of social media that can have pictures on it. It surveys 103 girls on how they are represented on Facebook inquiring about things such as thinness, dissatisfaction, and appearance comparison. The girls that participated in the study were in High School for the most part, and generally they decided that it was not the total time spent on Facebook that determined the self-objectification rather it was the amount of time spent viewing images of other girls their age. They related this to beauty magazines and how they objectify women and create unrealistic goals for other girls. I plan to use this in my research paper in which I hope to understand the differences between how women and men are affected on social media.
Holland; McKay; Moretti. "Self–other representations and relational and overt aggression in adolescent girls and boys". Behavioral Sciences and Law. 19. ISSN 0735-3936 Summary: This article explains the way in which aggression and bullying has changed since the inception of social media. When I was researching at the most recent library day I decided to compare the past (pre-social media) with the era where social media is most prevalent. The article has a relatively small sample size, but yields some interesting results. After a study conducted the researchers said that girls that are in High School generally have more relational aggression than boys do, which they attribute to the sexual objectification and oppression that these young women have faced. I plan to use this article to hopefully contrast girl’s aggression on pre-social media due to self-objectification to the status of girls on social media.
Obrest, Ursula; Chamarro, Andres; Renau, Vanessa. "Gender Stereotypes 2.0: Self- Representations of Adolescents on Facebook". Media Education Research Journal. 24 (48): 81–89. Summary: This article was the study from Spain I used for my large contribution to Wikipedia. It was the method I cited in my wiki Social Media edit. It entails a study in which people took a survey about their use of social media. Basically, they determined that people are generally sticking to their gender stereotypes on social media to fit in with modern society. It also says that people want to fit in to societal norms which in turn creates stereotypes for people. I plan to use this source more because every time I read this source not only do I get more information, but I understand the material better and can form my own opinion with the facts presented.
De Vies, D; Peter, J. "Women on Display: The Effect of Portraying the Self Online on Women's Self-objectification". Computers in Human Behavior. 29 (4): p1,483-1489. Summary: I found this article as a source to the Obrest article. This is another article I used for my contribution to Wikipedia. It outlines the general gender stereotypes on social media. It describes girls by saying they post more often, and pictures of themselves and friends. While in men usually post pictures and posts that display them as independent and in power. This article described how women are objectified through social media.
"Facebook Involvement, Objectified Body Consciousness, Body Shame, and Sexual Assertiveness in College Women and Men". Sex Roles. 72. Summary: I was excited to read this article as it related men to women with social media contrary to most of the other articles that focused on women. It was exactly what I was looking for because it compared men to women and how they viewed themselves after using social media. They were discovered that most women and a lot of men are conscious of their bodies and because of this they feel as though they have been body shamed. Another discovery is that went against their hypothesis was that body shaming does not correlate with sexual assertiveness. I plan to use this to create a deeper understanding as too how men interact and react to incidents on social media.
Triggerman; Slater. "Net Girls: The Internet, Facebook, and body image concern in adolescent girls". Internet Journal of Eating Disorders. 46. doi:10.1002/eat.22141. Summary: This study is like another, but it involved a younger generation of girls and yielded odd results. One observation was that on average people spent 1.5 hours on Facebook a day, which seems like a lot. Another interesting thing was that 96% of those tested had access to the internet, while only 75% had a Facebook. The 75% with a Facebook generally had a higher concern for their physical appearance compared to the 25% who did not have a Facebook. Ultimately, the article concluded that we need to educate our children on the use of social media and the internet at a young age as many young people are suffering because the lack of knowledge. These people are falling victim to gender stereotypes.
Barber; Blomfield Neira. "Social networking site use: Linked to adolescents' social self-concept, self-esteem, and depressed mood". Australian Journal of Psychology. 66. doi:10.1111/ajpy.12034 Summary: This is another article focusing on the difference between men and women and their reaction to social media. An interesting fact from this article is it states men who have a social media account have a higher self-esteem and social self-concept than those who do not. It was generally considered a positive leisure activity for most men while girls considered it to be a have negative aspects. Another discovery was that the more someone uses a certain platform the greater reaction they have when it is active. This article disagrees with the idea that social media is a negative space and leads to self-objectification. I will use this to make my research paper sound more neutral, as well to become more educated in general on both sides of the argument.