Instagram and body image. Factors of reification among adolescent girls in Spain = Instagram e imagen corporal: factores de cosificación en chicas adolescentes en España Articles uri icon

authors

  • MARTINEZ PEREZ, NATALIA
  • CUENCA ORELLANA, NEREA
  • DUEÑAS MOHEDAS, SONIA

publication date

  • December 2024

start page

  • 191

end page

  • 202

issue

  • 7

volume

  • 16

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2695-9631

abstract

  • This research studies the use of Instagram and its relationship with the construction of body image in adolescent girls. Firstly, we analyse the representations conveyed by the network and the gender discourses it articulates in order to identify what kind of strategies -visual and linguistic- are used by the most popular influencers to understand the discourses on corporeality. The structural-semiological content analysis of the five Instagram profiles of the most followed influencers in Spain by the so-called Z generation sheds light on gender stereotypes and roles, reflecting on the prevention of the phenomenon of reification and self-reification.

subjects

  • Information Science

keywords

  • social media; instagram; gender; influencers; reification; body image; adolescence; redes sociales; género; cosificación; imagen corporal; adolescencia