TY - GEN
T1 - Representations of Health and Wellness on Instagram
T2 - 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023
AU - Bak, Michelle
AU - Priniski, J. Hunter
AU - Chin, Jessie
N1 - Acknowledgement. This work was supported by National Science Foundation of China (#71802108) and Research Start-up Funds from NUAA.
Human resources are the most important element of an organization because they use the resources owned by individuals, such as knowledge, expertise, and skills [8]. Even though it is supported by facilities and infrastructure as well as additional resources, organizational activities will not develop without the support of reliable human resources [9]. Development of the capacity of human resources, especially government apparatus, is carried out by continuously increasing the capabilities of government apparatus [10]. As a result, it is necessary to increase human resource capacity and organize their utilization with careful and comprehensive planning based on needs, with implementation carried out in stages and continuously [11]. Government officials play a role in determining and even being the key to the effective spread and development of electronic government (e-government) as developers, managers, and users of the system (e-government). As a result, it is necessary to increase human resource capacity and organize their utilization with careful and mature planning based on needs, with implementation carried out in stages and continuously. This can be achieved by establishing the competency requirements necessary for the creation and implementation of electronic governance through formal and informal education (e-Gov) channels.
JPNP20006 and JPNP180013, commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP22K18008.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This study aims to investigate the prevalence of Health Influencers’ Instagram content that could lead to negative impacts on mental health and body image. With the collected Instagram posts and associated metadata of top ranked Health Influencers, we performed content analysis on the most used hashtags, an unsupervised topic model to examine the semantic content and coverage of each theme discussed in the corpus, and an analysis on the audience engagement behavior by topics. Content analysis revealed posts composing of four broad themes: Fitness, Wellness, Self-Promotion, and Cosmetics and Appearance. In addition, well-known brands are prevalent among the hashtags suggesting product promotion is central to health content on Instagram. Topic modeling uncovered Health Influencers’ posts as a mixture of content related to health and wellness as well as other potentially problematic topics (e.g., promoting brands that have spread unhealthy body ideals or associating cosmetic products with being healthy, etc.). We also found promotional posts have higher user engagement rates than non-promotional ones, which in part due to the differential incentives of engagement, and bias in health beliefs or algorithms. Current research suggests a large portion of content produced by Health Influencers likely contain factors that induce body dissatisfaction and other related issues among Instagram users.
AB - This study aims to investigate the prevalence of Health Influencers’ Instagram content that could lead to negative impacts on mental health and body image. With the collected Instagram posts and associated metadata of top ranked Health Influencers, we performed content analysis on the most used hashtags, an unsupervised topic model to examine the semantic content and coverage of each theme discussed in the corpus, and an analysis on the audience engagement behavior by topics. Content analysis revealed posts composing of four broad themes: Fitness, Wellness, Self-Promotion, and Cosmetics and Appearance. In addition, well-known brands are prevalent among the hashtags suggesting product promotion is central to health content on Instagram. Topic modeling uncovered Health Influencers’ posts as a mixture of content related to health and wellness as well as other potentially problematic topics (e.g., promoting brands that have spread unhealthy body ideals or associating cosmetic products with being healthy, etc.). We also found promotional posts have higher user engagement rates than non-promotional ones, which in part due to the differential incentives of engagement, and bias in health beliefs or algorithms. Current research suggests a large portion of content produced by Health Influencers likely contain factors that induce body dissatisfaction and other related issues among Instagram users.
KW - Body Image
KW - Mental Health
KW - Social Media
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-36001-5_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-36001-5_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85169469270
SN - 9783031360008
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 10
EP - 20
BT - HCI International 2023 Posters - 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023, Proceedings
A2 - Stephanidis, Constantine
A2 - Antona, Margherita
A2 - Ntoa, Stavroula
A2 - Salvendy, Gavriel
PB - Springer
Y2 - 23 July 2023 through 28 July 2023
ER -