Fat Talk: Constructing the Body through Eating Disorders Online among Swedish GirlsAnn-Charlotte Palmgren (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Copyright © 2011. 19 pages.
OnDemand Chapter PDF Download
Download link will be e-mailed upon order completion.
| $30.00 | Add to Cart |
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-209-3.ch004, ISBN13: 9781609602093, ISBN10: 1609602099, EISBN13: 9781609602116 Sample PDFCite Chapter
MLA
Palmgren, Ann-Charlotte. "Fat Talk: Constructing the Body through Eating Disorders Online among Swedish Girls." Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices. IGI Global, 2011. 64-82. Web. 23 May. 2012. doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-209-3.ch004
APA
Palmgren, A. (2011). Fat Talk: Constructing the Body through Eating Disorders Online among Swedish Girls. In E. Dunkels, G. Franberg, & C. Hallgren (Eds.), Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices (pp. 64-82). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-209-3.ch004
Chicago
Palmgren, Ann-Charlotte. "Fat Talk: Constructing the Body through Eating Disorders Online among Swedish Girls." In Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices, ed. Elza Dunkels, Gun-Marie Franberg and Camilla Hallgren, 64-82 (2011), accessed May 23, 2012. doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-209-3.ch004
Export Reference
 | | TopAbstractThe purpose of this chapter is to study how young women in a Swedish context construct their body by writing about eating disorders in blogs. Connected to the body and eating disorders a construction of girlhood can be seen. The blogs studied are all part of the online community ungdomar.se. The chapter begins with a background to eating disorders, blogs and girlhood and youth in a cultural context. The main focus is on examples from thirteen blogs. The content and typographical emphasis in the blogs are analysed and discussed. The study shows that the process of becoming or constructing a certain body and blogging is both social and collective because of the interaction between the blogger, the community and blog commentators. The body is not only constructed by teenaged girls by striving to a certain type of a female body, but also by mastering the talk about one’s own body, dissatisfaction with it and by typographical emphasises in the blogs. TopComplete Chapter List|
1.
| Young People and Online Risk
(pages 1-16)
Elza Dunkels (Umeå University, Sweden), Gun-Marie Frånberg (Umeå University, Sweden), Camilla Hällgren (Umeå University, Sweden)
Sample PDF |
More details... |
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
2.
| Youth and Online Social Networking: From Local Experiences to Public Discourses
(pages 17-40)
Malene Charlotte Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Thomas Ryberg (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Sample PDF |
More details... |
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
3.
| Swedish Students Online: An Inquiry into Differing Cultures on the Internet
(pages 41-62)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
4.
| Fat Talk: Constructing the Body through Eating Disorders Online among Swedish Girls
(pages 64-82)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
5.
| To Be Continued…: Fan Fiction and the Constructing of Identity
(pages 83-96)
Patrik Wikström (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden), Christina Olin-Scheller (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Sample PDF |
More details... |
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
6.
| Digital Neighbourhoods: A sociological perspective on the forming of self-feeling online
(pages 97-111)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
7.
| The Use of Interactive Media in Identity Construction by Female Undergraduates in a Nigerian University
(pages 112-125)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
8.
| The Representation of Female Friendships on Young Women’s Myspace Profiles: The All-Female World and the Feminine ‘Other’
(pages 126-152)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
9.
| YouTube as a Performative Arena: How Swedish Youth are Negotiating Space, Community Membership, and Gender Identities through the Art of Parkour
(pages 153-169)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
10.
| Young People and Cybersex in a Sexually Conservative Society: A Case Study from Mauritius
(pages 171-189)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
11.
| Youth, Sexuality and the Internet: Young People’s Use of the Internet to Learn About Sexuality
(pages 190-206)
Kristian Daneback (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Cecilia Löfberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Sample PDF |
More details... |
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
12.
| Adolescents and Online Dating Attitudes
(pages 207-221)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
13.
| The Role of Internet Newsgroups in the Coming-Out Process of Gay Male Youth: An Israeli Case Study
(pages 222-241)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
14.
| The Competent Youth’s Exposure of Teachers at YouTube.se
(pages 243-255)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
15.
| Moving from Cyber-Bullying to Cyber-Kindness: What do Students, Educators and Parents Say?
(pages 256-277)
Wanda Cassidy (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Karen Brown (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Margaret Jackson (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Sample PDF |
More details... |
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
16.
| Electronic Aggression among Adolescents: An Old House with a New Facade (or Even a Number of Houses)
(pages 278-295)
Jacek Pyzalski (Wyzsza Szkola Pedagogiczna w Lodzi, Poland & Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland)
Sample PDF |
More details... |
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
17.
| Ways of ICT Usage Among Mildly Intellectually Disabled Adolescents: Potential Risks and Advantages
(pages 296-315)
|
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
18.
| Gaming and Aggression: The Importance of Age-Appropriateness in Violent Video Games
(pages 316-337)
Eva-Maria Schiller (University of Münster, Germany), Marie-Thérèse Schultes (University of Vienna, Austria), Dagmar Strohmeier (University of Vienna, Austria), Christiane Spiel (University of Vienna, Austria)
Sample PDF |
More details... |
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
19.
| Young People, Sexual Content and Solicitation Online
(pages 338-356)
Kareena McAloney (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland), Joanne E. Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Sample PDF |
More details... |
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
20.
| Spirituality in Cybercrime (Yahoo Yahoo) Activities among Youths in South West Nigeria
(pages 357-380)
Agunbiade Ojo Melvin (Obafemi Awolowo University, lle-Ife, Nigeria), Titilayo Ayotunde (Obafemi Awolowo University, lle-Ife, Nigeria)
Sample PDF |
More details... |
$30.00
Add to Cart |
|
| |