Teen & Body Image Today

Alexis Ulmer is Miss Oakland County Teen 2022 joins forces with Bias Is All Around You and Media Literacy Now to discuss the importance of media literacy and how it relates to teen body image. With social media becoming increasingly popular among today's teens it is important now more than ever to increase education on the many sources of bias for social media. This talk will also focus on how companies use algorithms and targeted advertising to sell their product to impressionable adolescents. Also including a deep dive on the presence of "influencers" and their use of filters and photo editing software which creat unrealistic body standards among their viewers. She ends with sharing how to work past this bias and continue to use social media responsibly.