Veronica S. Beltran

The Internet has greatly changed the technology world, and society in general. It's become so easily available to the world that it's hard to not have access to the Internet. With the development of new media, society tends to spend a tremendous amount of time on the web. Blogs and Wikis are forms of new media that work to provide information on a particular topic with the public through the internet. They are both great sources of free information when you need more insight on a particular subject. Today, a majority of businesses usually have some sort of blog, and blogging is now even considered a career choice. According to Kathy E. Gill's How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere , the characteristics of blogs include: reverse chronological journaling, regular date-stamped entries, links to related news articles, documents, blogs entries with each entry, archived entries, links to related blogs, RSS or XML feed, and lastly, passion. Overall, blogs act as per

For my project I decided to focus on Self-Sexualization Vs. Body Positivity through the eyes of social media. Over the years, the fight against female sexualization has gained more awareness. Along with it, came the concept of body positivity, and loving your body despite what it looks like and whether or not it's up to society's "standards." However, with the increased usage of social media platforms, especially Instagram, the barriers between sexualization and body positivity have become less defined. For this research topic, I want to raise the question of why certain parts of the body must be censored, whereas other parts are allowed to be shown on these social media platforms. How does Instagram and other social media platforms evaluate what's too revealing? Does body positivity actually help fight against female sexualization or does it make matters worse? I want to show opinions and experiences from various people on body image through social media. I also