This paper aims to explore the negative impact of Social Media on the young girls’ body image, with a serious look at Eating Disorders. In our time, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of Social Media has grown exponentially, particularly in the most sensitive and vulnerable category: teenagers, mostly young girls. For this reason, the work is divided into 3 chapters for an overview of this current and dangerous problem: the first one explains the perception of body image in the world of a female adolescent, who is constantly subjected to beauty standards that are continually and daily disseminated throughout Social Media, as well as the negative effects of the vulnerable girls well-being. In the second chapter, by the aid of 3 recent articles, we want to demonstrate first how the impact of social comparisons that occurs on Social Media is related to the drive to thinness and body dissatisfaction; second how the pandemic has affected the use of social media and the following negative effects on body image, and thirdly how women with a positive body image are involved in a filtering process to protect themselves from these effects; in the last chapter the attention is on the pathology: Eating Disorders, underlining the deleterious impact of Social nMedia and Pro-disorder sites in maintaining the disorder.
Il presente elaborato ha lo scopo di esplorare l’impatto negativo dei Social Media sull’immagine corporea nelle giovani ragazze con uno sguardo ai disturbi alimentari. Al giorno d'oggi, soprattutto dopo la pandemia da Coronavirus dell'anno 2019, l'uso dei Social Media è aumentato esponenzialmente, in modo maggiore nella categoria più sensibile e vulnerabile: gli adolescenti, perlopiù le ragazze. Per questo motivo il lavoro è suddiviso in 3 capitoli volti a dare una panoramica di questo problema attuale e pericoloso: nel primo si tratta della percezione dell’immagine corporea nel mondo adolescenziale femminile, costantemente sottoposto a standard di bellezza che vengono continuamente e quotidianamente diffusi nei Social Media, con degli effetti negativi per il benessere delle ragazze vulnerabili; nel secondo capitolo, tramite l'ausilio di 3 articoli di recente pubblicazione si vuole dimostrare come l'impatto negativo dei confronti sociali che avvengono sui Social Media sia correlato alla spinta alla magrezza e all'insoddisfazione corporea, come la pandemia ha influito sull'utilizzo dei Social media e sui conseguenti effetti negativi sull'immagine corporea, e come le donne con un'immagine corporea positiva si impegnino in un processo di filtraggio per proteggersi dai suddetti effetti; nell'ultimo capitolo l'attenzione viene posta sulla patologia: i disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare, sottolineando l'impatto deleterio dei Social Media e dei siti Pro-disturbo.
L'impatto dei Social Media sui problemi di immagine corporea e Disturbi Alimentari
QUERAITI, ALESSIA
2021/2022
Abstract
This paper aims to explore the negative impact of Social Media on the young girls’ body image, with a serious look at Eating Disorders. In our time, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of Social Media has grown exponentially, particularly in the most sensitive and vulnerable category: teenagers, mostly young girls. For this reason, the work is divided into 3 chapters for an overview of this current and dangerous problem: the first one explains the perception of body image in the world of a female adolescent, who is constantly subjected to beauty standards that are continually and daily disseminated throughout Social Media, as well as the negative effects of the vulnerable girls well-being. In the second chapter, by the aid of 3 recent articles, we want to demonstrate first how the impact of social comparisons that occurs on Social Media is related to the drive to thinness and body dissatisfaction; second how the pandemic has affected the use of social media and the following negative effects on body image, and thirdly how women with a positive body image are involved in a filtering process to protect themselves from these effects; in the last chapter the attention is on the pathology: Eating Disorders, underlining the deleterious impact of Social nMedia and Pro-disorder sites in maintaining the disorder.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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