Why social media is ruining your life /
Ormerod, Katherine,
Why social media is ruining your life / Katherine Ormerod. - London : Cassell, 2018. - 256 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Katherine Ormerod, journalist and social media mogul, is here to burst the Instagram bubble and discuss the real effects of social media 'perfection'. The internet has set destructive standards of flawlessness and comparison. We're working so hard to live up to these new benchmarks that we're burning ourselves out, and we're working so hard to maintain them that we're self-perpetuating an unobtainable reality. Until girls and women alike see the social media fantasies for what they are - constructed realities - and stop comparing their lifestyles, bodies, partners, even families to those seen on their feeds and screens, they will never be able to realise their potential in the workplace, in the political system or in their quest for happiness.
9781788400626 (hbk.) : £12.99 Đ12.99
Social media.
Social media--Psychological aspects.
Women--Psychology.
Women--Social conditions--21st century.
Media Studies.
HM742
302.23 ORM
Why social media is ruining your life / Katherine Ormerod. - London : Cassell, 2018. - 256 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Katherine Ormerod, journalist and social media mogul, is here to burst the Instagram bubble and discuss the real effects of social media 'perfection'. The internet has set destructive standards of flawlessness and comparison. We're working so hard to live up to these new benchmarks that we're burning ourselves out, and we're working so hard to maintain them that we're self-perpetuating an unobtainable reality. Until girls and women alike see the social media fantasies for what they are - constructed realities - and stop comparing their lifestyles, bodies, partners, even families to those seen on their feeds and screens, they will never be able to realise their potential in the workplace, in the political system or in their quest for happiness.
9781788400626 (hbk.) : £12.99 Đ12.99
Social media.
Social media--Psychological aspects.
Women--Psychology.
Women--Social conditions--21st century.
Media Studies.
HM742
302.23 ORM