The clinical presentation of EDs differs among children and adolescents, with eating pathology and behavioral symptoms less prominent among children. Frontline health professionals require knowledge of these differences to assist with early detection, diagnosis, and prognosis.

Personal informatics systems for supporting health largely grew out of a "self"-centric orientation: self-tracking, self-reflection, self-knowledge, self-experimentation, self-improvement. Health management, however, even when self-driven, is inherently social and depends on a person's direct relationships and broader sociocultural contexts, as an emerging line of research is coming to recognize, study, and support. This is particularly true in the case of mental health. In this paper, we engage with individuals managing the serious mental illness bipolar disorder and members of their support circles to (a) identify key social relations and the roles they play in condition management, (b) characterize patients' complex interactions with these relations (e.g., positive or negative, direct or peripheral, steady or unstable), and (c) understand how personal informatics mediates these recovery relations. Based on these insights, we offer a model of this social ecology, along with design implications for personal informatics systems that are sensitive to these interpersonal contexts.

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There has been an increase in the number of ads featuring stay-at-home and involved fathers in the recent past. Using hybrid masculinity theory, feminist theory, and postfeminist theory as a framework, the current study examines the nuances of advertisements featuring involved fathers and stay-at-home dads by employing feminist rhetorical criticism as a method. While both hybrid masculinity theory and feminist theory suggest there is much more work to do to achieve gender equality, postfeminist ideology holds that feminism's work is done. Overall, our findings suggest that ads featuring stay-at-home and involved dads are representing feminist goals of gender equality in some ways, and yet are problematic in other ways. This inherent contradiction is reflective of both hybrid masculinity, feminism, and postfeminism: fathers are represented more often doing housework and childcare, but advertisers are also supplementing these portrayals with hegemonic masculine traits such as strength, toughness, and athleticism.

Exemplary organizations, people, and processes provide ethical guidance to members of the marketing communication industry, involving practices of advertising and public relations. Wire and Plastic Products (WPP) is a unique case due to its size, reputation, inclusion of advertising and public relations, and use of ethical codes. WPP, the world’s largest agency, is a British, multinational advertising and public relations company holding approximately 350 marcom companies worldwide with approximately $19 billion in revenue. This rhetorical criticism of the WPP Code of Business Conduct , and related website content, calls upon Kantian ethics to examine the symbols therein to determine if the Code could be viewed as exemplary for the industry. While the Code suggests that, overall, WPP companies have an obligation to behave honestly, with integrity and to respect others, for some subsidiaries, vague examples, hyperbole, and contradictions emerged.