{"id":5617,"date":"2024-11-11T17:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2024-11-15T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T14:29:20","slug":"survey-social-media-negatively-impacts-women-more-than-men-americans-say-in-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2024\/11\/11\/survey-social-media-negatively-impacts-women-more-than-men-americans-say-in-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Social Media Negatively Impacts Women More than Men, Americans Say in Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Burt Glass<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Social media impacts women more negatively than men, according to most Americans, but traditional media does a better job giving equal attention to issues that affect both. <\/p>\n<p>The latest Media &#038; Technology survey by Boston University\u2019s College of Communication found that three times as many than not, for example, say social media content negatively impacts women more than men, in terms of body perception, lifestyle and self-esteem (52% agree vs. 17% disagree). <\/p>\n<p>But when asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the idea that TV, magazines, radio and newspapers \u201cgive equal attention to issues that affect women and issues that affect men,\u201d respondents were almost evenly split (32% agreed, 35% disagreed). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most surprising result was the proportion of people, an average of 35%, that have no clear position when it comes to having an opinion on how women\u2019s issues are covered or portrayed in the media,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/nivea-canalli-bona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nivea Canalli Bona.<\/a>, a master lecturer at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication. \u201cThis could be a sign of low media literacy, which shows that people are not critical of the role media plays in perpetuating stereotypes. It can further point to the need for more media literacy projects in the country \u2013 with the goal of fighting misinformation and disinformation \u2013 which should investigate the gender issue.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/social-media-negatively-impacts-women-more-than-men-americans-say-in-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Burt Glass Social media impacts women more negatively than men, according to most Americans, but traditional media does a better job giving equal attention to issues that affect both. The latest Media &#038; Technology survey by Boston University\u2019s College of Communication found that three times as many than not, for example, say social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}