Reflections of the body: media, culture and image perception
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3 - Good Health & Wellbeing.
Contemporary understandings of body image are deeply influenced by media, culture, race, gender, class and sexual identity. This Collection seeks to examine how ideals of beauty and embodiment are constructed, internalised and contested across different populations and social platforms.
We encourage submissions that critically explore the intersections of body image with cultural norms, power structures and digital media, including within underrepresented or marginalised communities.
We welcome papers that engage with topics including (but not limited to):
- Beauty standards and body image: feminine, masculine, non-binary perspectives
- LGBTQ+ perspectives on embodiment and visual culture
- Racialised and class-based body ideals
- WEIRD bias in body image research and global misrepresentation
- Internalised prejudice and body-related repression
- Eating disorders, thinness, fatphobia, body dysmorphia
- The psychological and social impact of media and influencer culture
- Online forums and algorithm-driven extreme content
- Law, regulation and online platforms’ responsibility regarding body-related content
- Social media usage among children and young adults, and its link to body dissatisfaction
- Cultural and historical variations in body perception
- Arts and activism: body positivity and resistance movements
- Intersectional feminist and decolonial critiques of beauty norms
