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Mass Media Consumption and Sexual Image Sharing from a Social Cognitive Perspective

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Michael StefanoneAuthors Info & Claims

SMSociety'20: International Conference on Social Media and Society

Pages 193 - 199

https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400829

Published: 22 July 2020 Publication History

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In the current study, we employed social cognitive theory as our theoretical framework to examine the importance of reality television consumption, pornography consumption, and exposure to celebrities’ sexual images on individuals’ public and private sexual image sharing frequency, image-editing behavior, and their strategic preference for social media platforms. In our sample, about 68.4% of participants have engaged in private sexual image sharing, most with their committed romantic relationship partner; about 43.4% have engaged in public sexual image sharing. Individuals show clear preference for Snapchat for sharing their sexual images. Bootstrapping regression analyses results from survey data (N =190) suggested that reality television consumption, exposure to celebrities’ sexual images and gender were significant predictors of private and public sexual image sharing, controlling for pornography consumption and other individual differences such as relationship status and loneliness. Reality television consumption was also a significant predictor of optimized and protective image editing behavior. Implications and limitations are discussed in the context of sexual image sharing.

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SMSociety'20: International Conference on Social Media and Society

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Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
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Aubrey JGahler HDaniels EChoi HSpeno A(2024)Examining Relations Between Sexualizing Media Exposure and Sexting Attitudes and Behaviors among U.S. AdolescentsArchives of Sexual Behavior10.1007/s10508-024-02984-553:10(4065-4078)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02984-5
Lu XChen YEpstein D(2021)A Model of Socially Sustained Self-Tracking for Food and DietProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34795955:CSCW2(1-32)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3479595

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