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Contribution to "Exploitation of women in mass media" rough draft:
The study Friend Networking Sites and Their Relationship to Adolescents’ Well-Being and Social Self-Esteem found indirect relations between the frequency of social media usage and the relationships adolescents formed and the impact it had on their sense of self. According to a study conducted by Xinyan Zhao, Mengqi Zhan, and Brooke F. Liu, social media content that weaves emotional components in a positive manner appears to have the benefit of also increasing one’s online influence. Digital social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat allow individuals to establish their influence through “sharing opinions, insights, experiences and perspectives with others” ). In the 2000s, these platforms have emerged as integral communities for publics to voice their opinions through various behavioral indicators. One example of these behaviors is displayed in the Dutch study. This study found that adolescents play out stereotypical gender roles in their self-presentations in social media. A six-month experiment with 1467 Dutch adolescents found that adolescents’ hypergender orientation predicted more frequent sexy self-presentation and exposure to others’ sexy self-presentations in social media. Results of this study show that it is predominantly women that feel pressured to conform to hyper femininity and stereotypical gender role orientation. Young women showed significantly higher tendencies for sexy self-representation and exposure to sexy self-presentations of others compared to young men. In addition, females will display higher expression in status updates than males.