Rhetorical Reading: Selfie Body Image
The context when talking about a “selfie culture” the people who truly understand it are those who are a part of this culture. In our current day and age, social media revolves all around what we post. Apps like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc., all contribute to this context. They’re all about what we look like and how we alter ourselves/want people to see us. This digital mode is a much more formal medium in a digital article genre as it is an article on BBC rather than an opinion blog post which is what you normally find when researching this topic. The intended audience for this piece is those who may be a victim of the risk of the ‘selfie’ body image. It was written by a women for women as a warning of this issue in unrealistic body image.
In Summary, this article addresses the issue of social media and its affects on negative body image. It directly makes a connection between the altered images of women and how it creates an “unrealistic image” of what women should look like. Even though the writer does research how this affects eating disorders, there is no correlation. However, there was “a link between time spent on social networks and negative comparisons about body image.” The time women spent on social media and saw images of their friends and celebrities, the more it affected the way they saw themselves.
This source is what I would like to base my inquiry project on which is why I chose this piece. This in addition to my other sources really emphasizes my point and contributes to my opinion. I definitely think that social media and “selfie culture” contributes to negative body image in young women. I even find myself submitting myself to this on social media on a daily basis. I find myself sitting on the explore page of my Instagram looking at other women’s pictures and I will feel bad about myself after. It will even affect the way I feel the rest of the day which I think is a serious problem with our generation including myself.
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