“i love my bones!” online violence involving children: self-harm and dangerous eating...
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“I love my bones!” Online violence involving children: Self-harm and dangerous eating behaviours on the Web
Teresa Castro, António OsórioInstituto de Educação, Universidade do Minho
[email protected] doctoral investigation is financed by POPH – QREN – Type 4.1 – Advanced Training, European Social Fund and Portuguese national funding from the Ministry of Education and Science, through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, under a research grant with the reference SFRH/BD/68288/2010.
PhD research
What is Online Violence?
3 kinds of approach: content, contact, conduct
Contents: pro-anorexia
1. Public and easily available
2. Active role of children:-production-dissemination
3. Major concern for parents
http://cake1983.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/the-truth-about-annas-web/
Anorexia vs. pro-anorexia
Disease vs. lifestyle
ED sufferersWannarexicsHater’sFaker’s
http://thejumellesproject.com/2012/09/fashionista-friday-2/
Social movement • Provide information• Sense of belonging/community• Promotion of anorexia/anti-recovery
Sample: 11 Weblogs (B1 to B11) | ♀ 9 / ♂ 2 Portugal 6 / Brazil 7 | y 13...19
The research
The research
Approach: qualitative content analysis
Criteria:• Portuguese written• Youth target age group • active blogs• Significant content • Publicly available
Results: • Common features• Common contents• Anorexic testimonials http://popsmartszen.com/2010/08/19/pro-ana-anorexia-websites-sticks-stones-bones/
Results: Common features/content
Topics: diets, physical exercise, cutting, suicide, drugs, medical experiences…
Thinspiration material: quotes, music, videos, pictures…
Tips and tricks: lose weight, hide weight loss, deceive parents…
Widgets: body mass index, ideal weight calculator, fat percentage calculator…
Contests: challenges
Slang: NF, NFC …
Fonte: http://fashioningcircuits.com/?p=226
Results: Anorexic testimonials
About: control, perfection, problems with parents, siblings or boyfriends/girlfriends
Feelings:misunderstanding, frustration, depression, conflict, loneliness, insecurities
“I know I'm killing myself but remaining fat is worse than dying” (B3)
“I feel disgusted with myself” (B9)
“(…) my mother is keeping a close eye on me” (B9)
“Here I have friends in whom I can trust, and learn who help me a lot” (B2)
“I feel like cutting again (...) When I think of the relief that a cut provides…” (B9)
[About 'Ana'] "A friend, perhaps enemy. I do not know exactly (...) I cannot live without her. "(B2)
Pressure
PeersMedia
Fit
Non acceptance
Transgression
Triggering effect
Risky behaviours
Sense of securiy
Deal with pressures
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/pressure-to-be-perfect
Evidence suggests…
Internet can play an undesired negative role:
i) proliferation of these websites "I’m writing this blog to know more people like me!" (B3)
ii) encouraging to fast or food disruptive " I started researching on the internet about diets and found a blog pro ana and mia (...) after that I created the blog and entered this world "(B9)
iii) maintenance of a already existing disorder " I will delete the blog, is making me ill "(B8)
iv) promoting alienation from offline social ties " this is my little world (...) is all I have. "(B2)
v) consequently extending the community to new members
Reflect about…
opportunities vs. threatshttp://murraycallanswimschools.com/blog/?p=183
Teresa Castro, António OsórioInstituto de Educação, Universidade do Minho
[email protected] doctoral investigation is financed by POPH – QREN – Type 4.1 – Advanced Training, European Social Fund and Portuguese national funding from the Ministry of Education and Science, through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, under a research grant with the reference SFRH/BD/68288/2010.
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