Adolescents' presentation of food in social media: An explorative study

Holmberg, Christopher; Chaplin, John; Hillman, Thomas; Berg, Christina

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2016.01.009

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“…The vast majority of young adults (85%) use photo-based social media apps such as Instagram regularly [35,36], and social media-based apps are often used to display food and beverage intake [37,38].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Photography-based mobile assessment of alcohol use in young adults: Feasibility and comparison to standard assessment methodology (Preprint)

Fazzino¹,

Martin²,

Forbush³

2018

Preprint

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Background: Heavy alcohol use is prevalent among young adults and may contribute to obesity.However, measurement tools for assessing caloric intake from alcohol are limited and rely on self-report, which is prone to biases.Objective: The purpose of the pilot study was to conduct feasibility testing of SmartIntake®, a photo-based smartphone app, to assess alcohol use among young adults. Aims consisted of 1) quantifying the ability of SmartIntake® to capture drinking behavior; 2) assessing app usability with the Computer System Usability Questionnaire (CSUQ); 3) conducting a qualitative interview; and 4) comparing preference, compliance, and alcohol use estimates (calories, grams per drinking episode) between SmartIntake® and online diet recalls that participants completed for a parent study.Methods: College students (N=15) who endorsed a pattern of heavy drinking were recruited from a larger study examining the impact of drinking on weight. Participants used SmartIntake® to send photographs of all alcohol and food intake over a three-day period, and then completed a follow up interview and the CSUQ. CSUQ items range from 1-7, with lower scores indicating greater usability. Total number of drinking occasions was determined by adding the number of drinking occasions captured by SmartIntake® plus the number of drinking occasions participants reported that they missed capturing. Compliance was defined by the number of days participants provided food/beverage photo data through the app, or the number of diet recalls completed.Results: The SmartIntake® app captured 13 of 15 (87%) drinking occasions. Participants rated the app as highly usable in the CSUQ (M= 2.28). Most participants (93%) preferred using SmartIntake® vs. recalls and compliance was significantly higher with SmartIntake® than recalls (93% vs 78%; P= .04). Alcohol grams and calories per drinking occasion were not significantly different between the two methods (P values range .25-.99); however triple the number of participants submitted alcohol reports with SmartIntake® compared to the diet recalls (SmartIntake® 9/15 vs recalls 3/15; P=.06).Conclusions: SmartIntake® was well accepted by college students who drink heavily and captured most drinking occasions. Participants had higher compliance with SmartIntake® compared to diet recalls and triple the number of participants reported alcohol use with SmartIntake®, suggesting this method may be well suited to assessing alcohol use in young adults.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Photography-based mobile assessment of alcohol use in young adults: Feasibility and comparison to standard assessment methodology (Preprint)

Fazzino¹,

Martin²,

Forbush³

2018

Preprint

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“…This may seem at first unremarkable, given that there has been an increase in depictions of food on social media sites generally (Holmberg et al 2016), and that keeping food diaries is encouraged in eating disorder treatment settings. However, Instagram users depicted food in ways that speak to the particularity of the eating disorder recovery context.…”

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“…Users can connect with others who share interests; they can also interact on the platform in the form of "liking" or commenting on photos. Others have explored Instagram posts in relation to feminist self-imaging (Olszanowski 2014), fitness aspirations (Holland and Tiggemann 2016), food presentation (Holmberg et al 2016) and more. Eating disorder researchers have mainly focused on how social media might be used by those engaged in practices coded as "eating disordered", for instance those who use the hashtags "pro-ana" or "pro-mia" (short for pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia, respectively).…”

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Hashtag Recovery: #Eating Disorder Recovery on Instagram

LaMarre

Rice

2017

Social Sciences

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Abstract:People who have experienced eating disorders are making sense of and managing their own health and recoveries, in part by engaging with digital technologies. We analyzed 1056 images related to eating disorder recovery posted to Instagram using the hashtags #EDRecovery, #EatingDisorderRecovery, #AnorexiaRecovery, #BulimiaRecovery and #RecoveryWarrior to explore user performances of eating disorder recovery. We situated our analysis in a critical Deleuzian feminist frame, seeking to understand better how users represented, negotiated, or contested dominant constructions of "how to be recovered". We identified a number of themes: A Feast for the Eyes, Bodies of Proof, Quotable, and (Im)Perfection. Within each of these themes, we observed links to social location, including the White, Western, middle-to-upper-class trappings that tether representations of eating disorder recovery to stereotypes about who gets eating disorders and may restrict access to the category of recovered. Documenting recovery online may be a way for those in recovery to chart progress and interact with similar others. However, recoveries presented on Instagram resemble stereotypical perspectives on who gets eating disorders and, thus, who might recover, subtly reinforcing a dominant recovery biopedagogy. These versions of recovery may not be available to all, limiting the possibility of engagement for people enacting and embodying diverse recoveries. Still, users make representational interventions into Instagram by making the struggles and challenges of eating disorder recovery visible to each other and to broader audiences.

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“…Two other studies sought to expose food industry use of social media to promote unhealthy food. They found that children and youth were highly engaged with these advertisements (78,145), suggesting, as with alcohol, that CM campaigns for unhealthy food that disrupt engagement may reduce the influence of such advertising.…”

Section: Food and Beverage Countermarketingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Countermarketing Alcohol and Unhealthy Food: An Effective Strategy for Preventing Noncommunicable Diseases? Lessons from Tobacco

Palmedo

Dorfman²,

Garza

et al. 2017

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Countermarketing campaigns use health communications to reduce the demand for unhealthy products by exposing motives and undermining marketing practices of producers. These campaigns can contribute to the prevention of noncommunicable diseases by denormalizing the marketing of tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food. By portraying these activities as outside the boundaries of civilized corporate behavior, countermarketing can reduce the demand for unhealthy products and lead to changes in industry marketing practices. Countermarketing blends consumer protection, media advocacy, and health education with the demand for corporate accountability. Countermarketing campaigns have been demonstrated to be an effective component of comprehensive tobacco control. This review describes common elements of tobacco countermarketing such as describing adverse health consequences, appealing to negative emotions, highlighting industry manipulation of consumers, and engaging users in the design or implementation of campaigns. It then assesses the potential for using these elements to reduce consumption of alcohol and unhealthy foods.

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Adolescents' presentation of food in social media: An explorative study

Cited by 171 publications

References 30 publications

Photography-based mobile assessment of alcohol use in young adults: Feasibility and comparison to standard assessment methodology (Preprint)

Photography-based mobile assessment of alcohol use in young adults: Feasibility and comparison to standard assessment methodology (Preprint)

Hashtag Recovery: #Eating Disorder Recovery on Instagram

Countermarketing Alcohol and Unhealthy Food: An Effective Strategy for Preventing Noncommunicable Diseases? Lessons from Tobacco

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