{"id":5532,"date":"2025-04-27T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T08:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2025-04-27T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T08:24:34","slug":"the-impact-of-curated-online-identities-on-young-teenage-womens-body-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5532\/the-impact-of-curated-online-identities-on-young-teenage-womens-body-image\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Curated Online Identities on Young Teenage Women&#8217;s Body Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/istockphoto-953897926-612x612-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\nThis essay examines the significant impact of meticulously curated online identities on the body image of young teenage women in Australia, where a majority report dissatisfaction linked to social media. It delves into how platform features facilitate idealised self-presentation, feeling upward social comparison and internalisation of often unattainable beauty standards. The analysis considers the role of social comparison theory, the potential for algorithmic amplification of harmful content, and <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5532\/the-impact-of-curated-online-identities-on-young-teenage-womens-body-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay examines the significant impact of meticulously curated online identities on the body image of young teenage women in Australia, where a majority report dissatisfaction linked to social media. It delves into how platform features facilitate idealised self-presentation, feeling upward social comparison and internalisation of often unattainable beauty standards. The analysis considers the role of social comparison theory, the potential for algorithmic amplification of harmful content, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":570,"featured_media":5548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ioa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532","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\/570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5549,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions\/5549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}