The case for body positivity on social media: Perspectives on current advances and future directions

2020 ◽  
pp. 135910532091245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Cohen ◽  
Toby Newton-John ◽  
Amy Slater
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Early Evidence ◽  
Body Positive ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Positive Content ◽  
Actual Health ◽  
Made In

In recent years, the body-positive movement has emerged on social media and has generated both support and criticism in pop-cultural discourse. We review the potential benefits and disadvantages of ‘body positivity’ on social media in light of theory and the available research. Based on the early evidence showing potential benefits of engaging with body-positive content on social media for positive body image, a case is made in support of this emerging content. Nevertheless, recommendations are made for future research with an emphasis on experimental and longitudinal investigations of actual health outcomes of engaging with body positivity on social media and clarification of the potential relationship between body positivity and objectification.

Dams: Effects of Hydrological Infrastructure on Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Andrew Dillon ◽  
Ram Fishman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Benefits And Costs ◽  
Distributional Impacts

Hydrological investments, particularly irrigation dams, have multiple potential benefits for economic development. Dams also have financial, environmental, and distributional impacts that can affect their benefits and costs. This article reviews the evidence on the impact of dams on economic development, focusing on the levels and variability of agricultural productivity, and its effect on poverty, health, electricity generation, and flood control. We also review the evidence on irrigation efficiency and collective action of dam maintenance. Throughout the discussion, we highlight the empirical challenges that restrict the body of causally interpretable impact estimates and areas in which the evidence is particularly thin. We conclude with a discussion of emerging issues pertaining to the long-term sustainability of dams’ impacts and suggest directions for future research.

scholarly journals #BoPo on Instagram: An experimental investigation of the effects of viewing body positive content on young women’s mood and body image

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1546-1564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Cohen ◽  
Jasmine Fardouly ◽  
Toby Newton-John ◽  
Amy Slater
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
The Body ◽  
Thin Ideal ◽  
Body Appreciation ◽  
Women's Body Image ◽  
Body Positive ◽  
Self Objectification ◽  
Positive Content

Body-positive content on social media aims to challenge mainstream beauty ideals and encourage acceptance and appreciation of all body types. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of viewing body-positive Instagram posts on young women’s mood and body image. Participants were 195 young women (18–30 years old) who were randomly allocated to view either body-positive, thin-ideal, or appearance-neutral Instagram posts. Results showed that brief exposure to body positive posts was associated with improvements in young women’s positive mood, body satisfaction and body appreciation, relative to thin-ideal and appearance-neutral posts. In addition, both thin-ideal and body-positive posts were associated with increased self-objectification relative to appearance-neutral posts. Finally, participants showed favourable attitudes towards the body positive accounts with the majority being willing to follow them in the future. It was concluded that body-positive content may offer a fruitful avenue for improving young women’s body image, although further research is necessary to fully understand the effects on self-objectification.

scholarly journals Art and Aging: Use of Social Media for Geriatric Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 763-763
Author(s):  
Gunjan Manocha ◽  
Casey Morton ◽  
Nicole Derenne ◽  
Heidi Bau ◽  
Donald Jurivich
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Learner Engagement ◽  
Interprofessional Training ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Peer Engagement ◽  
Learner Profile ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Abstract Social media as an educational tool for health care learning has untapped potential. Benefits of social media include peer-to-peer engagement, active learning and interprofessional training. Here we explored social media platforms as a vehicle to deliver short, pithy clinical pearls from evidence-based, peer-reviewed manuscripts. Key points from recent medical publications are paired with pre-existing artwork to provide visual reinforcement of the clinical pearl. Dubbed “Art and Aging”, the clinical pearl and artwork combination is posted on different social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, thus allowing for an expansive audience. Different hashtags and tags are used to increase followers and engagement on each platform. Over a 9 months period learner engagement increased by 150% and includes a diverse learner profile. These curated social media platforms show considerable promise for disseminating Geriatrics best practices. As yet, we do not know subject matter retention or whether it changes clinical practices - both questions which are future research objectives.

Research on IT in China: A Call for Greater Contextualization

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Li ◽  
Ping Gao ◽  
Ji-Ye Mao
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Human Behaviors ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Is Management

Research on information technologies (IT) in China has gained increasing attention in the international information systems (IS) community. This study systematically reviews papers on IT in China published in the ‘Senior Scholars’ Basket of Journals’ from 2000 to 2013. We have two specific objectives: to identify key research issues and trends, and to propose future directions for research on IT in China. This paper categorizes the global distribution of authors and their research methods. Five research streams are identified, including human behaviors in IS adoption and use, IS management, e-Business, social media, digital collaborations and group support, and industry and societal issues in IS. While each stream is examined in detail, we specifically pay attention to the effect of the Chinese context in each paper and the approaches to contextualizing the research. On the basis of our findings from the literature review, we propose a focus on the Chinese context as guidance for future research.

scholarly journals TRAINING ON WRITING POSITIVE CONTENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR STUDENTS OF SMKN 49 MARUNDA, CILINCING JAKARTA UTARA

ICCD ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-193
Author(s):  
Wenny Pahlemy
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Media ◽  
High School Students ◽  
The Body ◽  
Media Content ◽  
School Students ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
False News ◽  
Positive Content

Teenagers are characterized by groups of people who tend to be emotionally unstable and respond to stimuli quickly and without further thinking. Teenagers today are actively using social media. However, social media relatively contains negative content such as bullying on the body, utterances of hatred related to ethnicity, religion, race and inter group (SARA), false news, and pornography. Teenagers are required to be able to respond to social media content appropriately. For this reason, writing positive content training is important for high school students of SMKN 49, Marunda. Jakarta Utara, because there are still many of them who are posting negative comments towards others. This activity aims to improve the ability of teens to write positive content on social media.

scholarly journals Adaptive Musical Instruments (AMIs): Past, Present, and Future Research Directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-142
Author(s):  
Florian Grond ◽  
Keiko Shikako-Thomas ◽  
Eric Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Therapy Education ◽  
Music Therapy Education

We review and discuss the literature related to adaptive musical instruments since 2000, focusing on the use of such instruments with children with disabilities. The aim of this review is to provide a synthesis of perspectives and answer the following questions: How have music technologies, including both software and hardware, been used for children with disabilities and how have they been tested and evaluated? What have been the research questions asked and outcomes evaluated concerning these instruments? The studies reviewed include intervention, narrative and descriptive studies. One observation is that adaptive instrument design and research cuts across many different disciplines including music therapy, education and engineering. We considered articles taking functional and rehabilitation informed perspectives as well as critical disability studies, for which music making is often discussed as a human right independently of potential benefits. We discuss methodological approaches used in these studies, and reports of user’s opinions concerning the use of AMIs. It is worth noting that most uses of AMIs by the population under consideration are highly improvisatory, and so a methodological challenge frequently reported is how can the effectiveness of AMIs be assessed without focusing only on easily measurable outputs? We reveal divisions existing between research focusing on the use of AMIs with precise therapeutic and pedagogic goals in mind, and that interested in more general positive effects of improvised collective creative activity and its role in community building. With this two-fold perspective, we analyse the limitations of current research and derive questions for future directions.

scholarly journals Energy Metabolism

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
PAJ Perera ◽  
Faiz MMT Marikar
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Amino Acids ◽  
Energy Metabolism ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Considerable Progress ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Made In

This review considers how our understanding of energy utilized by energy metabolism has progressed since the pioneering work on this topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Research has been stimulated by a desire to understand how metabolic events contribute to the development of the body into the different phases, the need of considering health with which to improve the success of implication on public health. Nevertheless, considerable progress has been made in defining the roles of the traditional nutrients: pyruvate, glucose, lactate and amino acids; originally considered as energy sources and biosynthetic precursors, but now recognised as having multiple, overlapping functions. Other nutrients; notably, lipids, are beginning to attract the attention they deserve. The review concludes by up-dating the state of knowledge of energy metabolism in the early 1970s and listing some future research questions. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjmb.v6i2.17646Bangladesh J Med Biochem 2013; 6(2): 68-76

Researching microcelebrity: Methods, access and labour

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Mavroudis ◽  
Esther Milne
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Media Analytics ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
High Level

The term “microcelebrity” describes a broad range of practices, platforms and social relations that includes but is not limited to the increasing significance of public performance in everyday life, the monetisation of social media and the widening scope of what constitutes celebrity culture. While contemporary research on microcelebrity has introduced important ways of discussing the cultural impact of these new forms of visibility, the methodological focus has generally been on discourse analysis and social media analytics. In response, this paper reports on the early stages of a research project which involves interviewing microcelebrities living in Los Angeles about their profile creation on Instagram and YouTube. We argue there are significant issues at play in relation to gaining access to the interview subjects. The paper outlines the methods used and explores how the issue of access is negotiated by the interview subjects and the researcher. Since one of the authors, Jonathan Mavroudis, himself identifies as a microcelebrity with over 25,000 followers on Instagram he is in a unique position to interview these people. This high level of access to a specific cohort of microcelebrities has not been easy to gain for many academic researchers. Jonathan’s microcelebrity status opens up the possibility of conducting autoethnographic research and this is framed as a discussion of relational ethics. Although the primary focus of the paper is on method we also want to discuss early suggestive themes arising from the data including the obligations felt by these microcelebrities to enact a particular mode of identity and how this is experienced as labour. We highlight these initial topics in order to bring context to the discussion of method. Access enables and constrains certain forms of research to occur and in so doing raises questions of trust and friendship. With only 3 interviews conducted to date this is not, of course, representative of all microcelebrities. However it can function as a snapshot of early findings that we hope will inform future research methods and conceptual debates. The paper concludes with some suggestions for future directions of the field more generally.

scholarly journals Being Successful and Being Thin: The Effects of Thin-Ideal Social Media Images With High Socioeconomic Status on Women's Body Image and Eating Behaviour

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Qi ◽  
Lijuan Cui
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Thin Ideal ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Women's Body Image

Social media has outpaced traditional media to be the most popular sociocultural channel to transmit thin-ideal images, an established trigger for body image concerns and disordered eating in women. With an experimental design, the present research first demonstrated that exposure to thin images on social media threatened women's body image and increased their unhealthy food consumption (Study 1). However, given that thin images posted on social media are usually from wealthier people, the present research hypothesised that it may not be the body shape but the perceived socioeconomic status (SES) of images that indeed have negative effects on women. By manipulating the perceived SES of thin images and incorporating a baseline control group (Study 2), the present research provided causal evidence for the hypothesis by indicating that viewing thin images with parallel-perceived SES could significantly buffer undesirable thin-ideal effects on self-objectification and food intake. Therefore, future research needs to pay more attention to the role of SES in the thin media images literature.

scholarly journals Chest-Worn Inertial Sensors: A Survey of Applications and Methods

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 2875
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hasan Rahmani ◽  
Rafael Berkvens ◽  
Maarten Weyn
Keyword(s):  
Inertial Sensors ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Parameters Estimation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Activity Detection ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Posture Analysis ◽  
Machine Learning Applications ◽  
Processing Architectures

IMU are frequently implemented in wearable devices. Thanks to advances in signal processing and machine learning, applications of IMU are not limited to those explicitly addressing body movements such as AR. On the other hand, wearing IMU on the chest offers a few advantages over other body positions. AR and posture analysis, cardiopulmonary parameters estimation, voice and swallowing activity detection and other measurements can be approached through chest-worn inertial sensors. This survey tries to introduce the applications that come with the chest-worn IMU and summarizes the existing methods, current challenges and future directions associated with them. In this regard, this paper references a total number of 57 relevant studies from the last 10 years and categorizes them into seven application areas. We discuss the inertial sensors used as well as their placement on the body and their associated validation methods based on the application categories. Our investigations show meaningful correlations among the studies within the same application categories. Then, we investigate the data processing architectures of the studies from the hardware point of view, indicating a lack of effort on handling the main processing through on-body units. Finally, we propose combining the discussed applications in a single platform, finding robust ways for artifact cancellation, and planning optimized sensing/processing architectures for them, to be taken more seriously in future research.

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