Feeds, filters and body image
Comparing yourself to a feed is comparing your ordinary day to other people's edited highlights, selected by software that rewards attention.
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Recognise how media and advertising shape body image and expectations
Key learning points
- • How the feed is built
- • Edited images
- • Protecting your own view
This lesson at a glance
- 20 minutes
- 20 parts to scroll through
- 4 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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Visual introductionPicture this
Feeds, filters and body image
Comparing yourself to a feed is comparing your ordinary day to other people's edited highlights, selected by software that rewards attention.
In a nutshell
Recognise how media and advertising shape body image and expectations
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 1 of 2
Part 1 · How the feed is built
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
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Learn
How the feed is built
Recommendation systems show you more of whatever kept you watching. That is not a judgement about what is good for you. Content designed to provoke envy or worry performs well, so it appears more often.
Reset break
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Pause
That's sitting 1 of 5 done
Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Edited images
Lighting, posture, filters and retouching change bodies substantially. Advertising in the UK must not be misleading, and some influencer posts must be labelled as ads, but a labelled ad is still a constructed image made to sell something.
Quick check
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Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 2 of 2
Part 2 · Protecting your own view
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Protecting your own view
Practical steps: mute or unfollow accounts that reliably make you feel worse; follow a few that show ordinary bodies and real skills; set a limit on the apps that hook you hardest; notice how you feel after twenty minutes rather than during them.
Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Quick check
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Explore the idea
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Worked example
Worked example: reading a post critically
A fitness post shows a dramatic 'six week' change. Questions to ask: are lighting and posture identical in both photos? Is anything being sold? What is not shown — how many hours, what genetics, what editing? Critical viewing is not cynicism; it is refusing to compare yourself to something that was manufactured.
Challenge round
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Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Reset break
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Pause
That's sitting 4 of 5 done
Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
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Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
____ in the UK must not be misleading, and some influencer posts must be labelled as ads, but a labelled ad is still a constructed image made to sell something.
Challenge round
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Game · Recall cards
Why does a feed show certain content more?
Card 1 of 4
Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Feeds, filters and body image
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Why does a feed show certain content more?
2. What must some influencer posts be labelled as?
3. Which is a practical step for a healthier feed?
4. When is it easiest to notice an app's effect on you?
Lesson round-up
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Lesson round-up
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