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Characterizing a body positive online forum : resistance and pursuit of appearance-ideals
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Rodgers, R. F., Meyer, Caroline and McCaig, Duncan (2020) Characterizing a body positive online forum : resistance and pursuit of appearance-ideals. Body image , 33 . pp. 199-206. doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.03.005 ISSN 1873-6807.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.03.005
Abstract
The body positive movement emerged in response to pressure to pursue the unattainable thin ideal, and promotes a more accepting stance towards the body. To date, however, little is known regarding the nature of online body positive content. Using publicly available data from a large online discussion platform (Reddit), all the forums to which commenters on a body acceptance forum (N = 1262) had also contributed were identified. For each pairing of 50 representative forums (i.e., a large number and proportion of body acceptance commenters), the commenter-overlap between the two forums was used to compute a network model, to detect communities of body acceptance commenters. By manually reviewing the topics of each community's forums, the shared interests of these commenters were identified. The majority of commenters (86 %) contributed to forums relating to women, feminism, relationships and support, and mental health. Large proportions of the commenters also revealed an interest in topics including body weight/shape, eating, exercise, and cosmetics. These findings confirm that original feminist tenets of body positivity remain present. However, our findings also suggest the existence of a sizeable subgroup interacting with topics related to the thin ideal, perhaps illustrating a gradual absorption of the body positive movement into mainstream culture. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.]
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) |
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| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Body image | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1873-6807 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | June 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 33 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 199-206 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.03.005 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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