Photo editing: Enhancing social media images to reflect appearance ideals

Guest, Ella

Abstract

Many of the images used in traditional forms of mass media have been modified to portray unrealistic and idealised beauty characteristics. Further to this, members of the general public have now begun to digitally enhance their own pictures for social media posts, in order to fulfil these often unattainable standards. Ella Guest explores the impact exposure to idealised images of peers may have on health and wellbeing

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 20, 2016
• Publication Date: Nov 7, 2016
• Deposit Date: Nov 9, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 10, 2016
• Journal: Journal of Aesthetic Nursing
• Print ISSN: 2050-3717
• Publisher: MA Healthcare
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 444-446
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.12968/joan.2016.5.9.444
• Keywords: photo editing, social media, appearance ideals, body dissatisfaction, body image
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/919368
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/joan.2016.5.9.444
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is the accepted version of an article published in Journal of Aesthetic Nursing. The final version can be found online http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/joan.2016.5.9.444
• Contract Date: Nov 9, 2016