#Proana: Pro-Eating Disorder Socialization on Twitter

Arseniev-Koehler, Alina; Lee, Hedwig; McCormick, Tyler H.; Moreno, Megan A.

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.02.012

Cited by 90 publications

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“…A qualitative study of pro-anorexia bloggers, for example, suggests that the stigma associated with eating disorders offline is what drives many individuals to such sites; once there, however, powerful norms regarding language and behavior may reinforce individuals’ eating disorder identities (Yeshua-Katz 2015). Studies also highlight the ease and scale with which such content can be socialized, indicating that many pro-eating disorder Twitter accounts have hundreds of followers, approximately half of whom have also posted pro-eating disorder tweets (Arseniev-Koehler et al 2016). …”

Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

155

218

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As social media use becomes increasingly widespread among adolescents, research in this area has accumulated rapidly. Researchers have shown a growing interest in the impact of social media on adolescents' peer experiences, including the ways that the social media context shapes a variety of peer relations constructs. This paper represents Part 2 of a two-part theoretical review. In this review, we offer a new model for understanding the transformative role of social media in adolescents' peer experiences, with the goal of stimulating future empirical work that is grounded in theory. The transformation framework suggests that the features of the social media context transform adolescents' peer experiences by changing their frequency or immediacy, amplifying demands, altering their qualitative nature, and/or offering new opportunities for compensatory or novel behaviors. In the current paper, we consider the ways that social media may transform peer relations constructs that often occur at the group level. Our review focuses on three key constructs: peer victimization, peer status, and peer influence. We selectively review and highlight existing evidence for the transformation of these domains through social media. In addition, we discuss methodological considerations and key conceptual principles for future work. The current framework offers a new theoretical perspective through which peer relations researchers may consider adolescent social media use.

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Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

155

218

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“…Syed-Abdul et al [41] study anorexia-related misinformation propagated through YouTube videos. Arseniev-Koehler et al [3] find that many followers of pro-ED users also selfidentify with ED by studying 45 pro-ED users on Twitter. Most of these studies use qualitative methods and involve intensive manual labor in data collection and validation.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analyzing such information can offer a deep insight into ED-ed individuals. Moreover, while many sites such as Facebook and Instagram have taken steps to counteract the diffusion of pro-ED content [12], Twitter has taken no actions to limit such content [3]. The latter feature makes Twitter a unique online SM platform to study ED.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Detecting and Characterizing Eating-Disorder Communities on Social Media

Wang

Brede

Ianni

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

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Eating disorders are complex mental disorders and responsible for the highest mortality rate among mental illnesses. Recent studies reveal that user-generated content on social media provides useful information in understanding these disorders. Most previous studies focus on studying communities of people who discuss eating disorders on social media, while few studies have explored community structures and interactions among individuals who suffer from this disease over social media. In this paper, we first develop a snowball sampling method to automatically gather individuals who self-identify as eating disordered in their profile descriptions, as well as their social network connections with one another on Twitter. Then, we verify the effectiveness of our sampling method by: 1. quantifying differences between the sampled eating disordered users and two sets of reference data collected for non-disordered users in social status, behavioral patterns and psychometric properties; 2. building predictive models to classify eating disordered and non-disordered users. Finally, leveraging the data of social connections between eating disordered individuals on Twitter, we present the first homophily study among eating-disorder communities on social media. Our findings shed new light on how an eating-disorder community develops on social media.

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“…Hence, members are likely to identify strongly with these communities, making it difficult for parents or professionals to intervene. Pro-eating disorder communities are found on various social media sites, including Facebook (Teufel et al, 2013), YouTube Syed-Abdul et al, 2013), Twitter (Arseniev-Koehler, Lee, McCormick & Moreno, 2016), Instagram, Pinterest (Custers, 2015), and Flickr (Yom-Tov, Fernandez-Luque, Weber & Crain, 2012). The EU Kids Online report found that 10 per cent of 11-16-year-olds had seen pro-eating disorder content.…”

Section: Pro-eating Disorder Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%