{"id":5437,"date":"2025-04-27T22:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2025-04-27T22:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:37:42","slug":"tiktok-algorithms-promoting-harmful-body-comparisons-in-younger-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5437\/tiktok-algorithms-promoting-harmful-body-comparisons-in-younger-users\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok algorithms promoting harmful body comparisons in younger users"},"content":{"rendered":"\nabstract - In today\u2019s world, where social media heavily influences self-image, TikTok has become a powerful yet potentially damaging tool on how young people view their bodies. Youth TikTok usage is correlated with an increase in body comparison and dissatisfaction through TikTok-specific affordance applications and psychological frameworks that allow for the mental reinforcement of negative ideas. Addictive algorithm designs and a large youth demographic, allows for harmful filter bubbles promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5437\/tiktok-algorithms-promoting-harmful-body-comparisons-in-younger-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>abstract &#8211; In today\u2019s world, where social media heavily influences self-image, TikTok has become a powerful yet potentially damaging tool on how young people view their bodies. Youth TikTok usage is correlated with an increase in body comparison and dissatisfaction through TikTok-specific affordance applications and psychological frameworks that allow for the mental reinforcement of negative ideas. Addictive algorithm designs and a large youth demographic, allows for harmful filter bubbles promoting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}