Saturday, October 15th, 2022
Special Edition: Filtered to 'Perfection' - How Social Media Warps Reality
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Today we’re talking about the beauty filters so many people use on social media. What’s the impact of this sort of warped reality on self-worth? The research shows it’s significant, especially for young girls, and that’s true even when we all know these types of filters exist.
First, you’ll hear from researcher Claire Pescott. Her research and expertise focus on how social media filters influence children even as young as 10 years old. Then later, we’re joined by a social media influencer who is breaking stereotypes and having a positive impact online. Jessamyn Stanley shares how she stays unfiltered online and gives her take on social media trolls who try to put her down.
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Guest: Jessamyn Stanley
Jessamyn Stanley is an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness, highly sought-after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. She is the founder of the streaming wellness app The Underbelly and co-host of the podcast Dear Jessamyn.
She is a contributor to SELF magazine, has been featured on the cover of Cosmopolitan (UK), and covered in the New York Times, Vogue, Glamour & Sports Illustrated. She is the author of “Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance” and “Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love your Body.”
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Guest: Claire Pescott
Claire Pescott currently works as a Senior Lecturer across two courses, Early Years and Working with Children and Families at the University of South Wales. She has considerable experience as a teacher.
In her move to higher education, sharing these experiences with students has enabled links between theory and practice to be made. In research for her Ph.D., she investigated children’s experiences of social media and how they understand their digital identities through creative, participatory research methods.
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