Very recent research found a significant correlation between time spent on SM, physical activity and how one’s body image is perceived. Therefore, it is important to understand and evaluate the impact of new media on youth, the relationship between body image on the web/social networks, adolescence and mental health and the risk of body appearance dissatisfaction.

The consortium has carried out a web search to show that using analyses based on SM data can help to overcome the limitations of traditional surveys in body image disorders studies, by providing finer grained features of EDs/bigorexia with many samples.