Name: Hudson McDonald

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

Date of Fieldwork: January 26, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):SJ group members

Type of Fieldwork: Other

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

This week my group didn’t present yet. We are presenting on the impact social media has on body image. We learned a lot of information throughout the process of making our slides. We worked to learn more about this topic and how it even affects teens. Because so many of us are on social media, we are all greatly affected by the things we scroll past every day. People trying to promote and live up to certain body types as well as shaming those who don’t have that body type is having an extremely negative impact on young girls and women. Since our group members all experience this first hand, we are devoted to learning more about it and coming up with potential solutions. This was such an imporant issue for us to learn about and now we feel like we can teach others about body image. We are excited to keep learning about this and help others understand the impact social media has on body image.