Factors Influencing RED App on Young Women’s self-Construction of Body Image

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10.2991/978-94-6463-276-7_34How to use a DOI?

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RED; social media platforms; self-construction; body image

Abstract

Social media is one of the mediums of self-expression and identity. In the trend of over-sharing, there is also the regulation of women’s aesthetic construction in social media. Social media is a medium of self-expression and identity, and social media is a medium of over-sharing. Therefore, this paper will explore the implicit aesthetic construction of young women in the social media software RED from the perspective of social comparison theory. The two main perspectives are whether the social construction/regulation of female body image is also present in social media software and what impact RED has on young girls’ aesthetic standards and daily life. Through a non-observational research method to investigate the popular topics, popular post content, and clicks in RED, and combined with the Support Vector Machine Classifier (SVM) model, 98 valid questionnaires for 20 aesthetic factors were used to analyze the factors specific to women’s constructs of aesthetics. The study shows that young women’s body consciousness is still unawakened and lacks autonomy, which can expose them to power exploitation and extreme expressions with the changing fashion trends. However, at the same time, women’s voice has been more respected and maintained due to the RED platform mechanism, which further promotes the awakening of women’s self-awareness.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Puxiu Jia
AU  - Shuze Geng
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/10/27
TI  - Factors Influencing RED App on Young Women’s self-Construction of Body Image
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Big Data and Social Sciences (ICBDSS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 317
EP  - 326
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-276-7_34
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-276-7_34
ID  - Jia2023
ER  -