Digital Media and Self-esteem FILM240

Social media has

REDUCED

SELF-ESTEEM

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Self-esteem is

confidence in

ones own worth

or abilities – Oxford Dictionaries

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How does social media

Lower

Self-esteem?

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1.Social Comparison

2.Envy

3.Cyber Bullying

4.Criticism

5.Social Anxiety

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The Social Comparison theory states that we determine our own social and personal worth based on how we stack up against others. As a result, we are constantly making self and other evaluations across a variety of domains. – Psychology Today

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Social Media INCREASES social comparisons

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1. STATUS UPDATES

People feel worse about their place in life and their achievements if they’d just viewed their friends status updates – Society for Personality and Social Psychology

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2. Friend Count

People with lots of Facebook friends have lower SELF-

ESTEEM

– Society for Personality and Social Psychology

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Comments and likes on your Facebook profile picture strongly affect your level of perceived physical, social, and professional attractiveness

3. LIKES

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“Researchers call it FACEBOOK ENVY. It’s the act of viewing all your friends’ fabulous vacations, lovely children, attractive friends, and great social lives. – Brian Williams

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“When you go on Facebook it’s kind of like you’re going through everyone's pictures and everyone's life, like, oh, that looks like so much fun, oh they’re so cool, they’re so pretty, they have all these cool pictures” – Hannah Musgrove

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“Victims of CYBER BULLYING tend

to have lower self-esteem than non-victims”- Journal of School Health

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160,000 students a year skip

school just to avoid being

harassed,

social media is

making it easier than

ever to harass

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Today the chance of being scrutinized is greater

because more people interact through a

protected, anonymous filter

Potentially making

SELF-ESTEEM issues more sensitive

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SELF-ESTEEM is the core issue in social and performance anxiety

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“We have sacrificed

conversation for mere

connection” – Sherry Turke

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“We have sacrificed CONVERSATION for mere CONNECTION” – Sherry Turke

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“In today’s workplace, young people who have grown up fearing conversation show up on the job wearing earphones” - Sherry TurkeImage via, where_ever_i_am, morguefile

“Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I’d like to learn how to have a conversation” – 16 year old boy

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Without basic communication skills,

social anxiety intervenes and in turn,

lowers

SELF-ESTEEM

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Social media lowers SELF-ESTEEM by promoting SOCIAL COMPARISON, ENVY, CYBER BULLYING, CRITICISM, and SOCIAL ANXIETY

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References• http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/self-

esteem• http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/social-compariso

n-theory

• http://www.livescience.com/25972-facebook-status-updates-loneliness.html

• http://www.wbur.org/2013/02/20/facebook-perfection • http

://cyberbullying.us/blog/self-esteem-and-cyberbullying.html

• http://www.social-anxiety.com/area-self-esteem.html

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