Name: mack burns

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Body Image and Social Media

Date of Fieldwork: March 10, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Erin Eichenstein

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

My group and I interviewed Erin Eichenstein on her work at marketing for instagram and Facebook. She talked to us about how social media can we damaging to girls and everyone in general and how herself and everyone working for Instagram and Facebook are trying to move the platforms in a more positive direction. One of the things that stood out to me is when she was talking about how many tests each ad goes through to be put on the platforms so that no one is being targeted by a negative ad.

Erin said due to covid teens and kids have been on social media and on their phone way more due to covid. This gives more room for kids to be shown a negative ad which can affect a large majority of teens mental health. If social media apps don’t take a stand to better their environment then everyone is going to continue to get affected by the toxicity of social media.