Constructing masculinity on a social networking site

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Boobs, back-off, six packs and bits: Mediated body parts, gendered reward, and sexual shame in teens' sexting images (2015, background): “Recent work on masculinities has explored the increasing objectification of boys and men in relation to idealized notions of physical appearance in the visual culture of social media (Siibak 2010; Manago 2013).”
Teen girls, sexual double standards and ‘sexting’: Gendered value in digital image exchange (2013, background): “…networking sites argue the very architecture (Papacharissi, 2009) of digital profiles enables visual, bodily ‘objectification’ and intensified forms of rating and comparison of both women’s and men’s bodies (Manago et al., 2008; Siibak, 2010; Dobson, 2011; Ringrose, 2011; Garcı́a Gómez, 2013).”
Understanding Sexual Objectification: A Comprehensive Approach Toward Media Exposure and Girls' Internalization of Beauty Ideals, Self‐Objectification, and Body Surveillance (2012, background): “finding is also in line with a study on social networking sites reporting that users tend to post pictures that comply with current beauty standards (Siibak, 2010).”