Qualitative content analysis of online news media coverage of weight loss surgery and related reader comments

Glenn, Nicole M.; Champion, Claudine; Spence, John C.

doi:10.1111/cob.12000

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“…In this article we have provided an insight into the views of an online audience that is largely resistant to a dietary risk message on red meat. As found in previous studies (Freeman 2011;Glenn, Champion, and Spence 2012;Bezreh et al 2012;Chmiel et al 2010;Secko et al 2011), the comments under investigation in the current study were largely reflective of disagreement with the message being communicated in the media article, in this case, the risks of red meat. The over-representation of resistance-type comments offered us Strategies for dismissing dietary risks 20 the opportunity to develop an understanding of the types of arguments and strategies that may be used to resist dietary risk communications.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

“…Previous research has suggested that those who tend to comment on media articles are 'blindly opinionated', that is they use the comments section to voice their own point without engaging in a dialogue with other participants (Richardson and Stanyer 2011). A number of studies have found that the majority of individuals who engage in Strategies for dismissing dietary risks 7 commenting on an article are more likely to make negative comments on or disagree with the subject matter of the article (Freeman 2011;Glenn, Champion, and Spence 2012;Bezreh et al 2012;Chmiel et al 2010;Secko et al 2011). It has also been suggested that those individuals who perceive articles' messages as incongruent to their beliefs are more motivated to voice their opinion and opposition (Freeman 2011;Holmes et al 2009).…”

Section: Online Methodology: the News Media's Comments Sectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Strategies for dismissing dietary risks: insights from user-generated comments online

Regan

Shan

McConnon

et al. 2014

Health, Risk & Society

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Communication around chronic dietary risks has proved challenging as dietary health risks are ostensibly met with attenuated perceptions of their likelihood and consequences. In this article we examine the strategies that an online public use to negotiate risk messages from expert stakeholders that may be incongruent with their own position on a risk. Progressing from conceptualisations of amplification as laid out in the social amplification of risk framework, we are particularly interested in understanding whether and how amplifications of risk may be attributed toward other stakeholders. The article presents an analysis of comments posted on a website oriented to a British audience. These comments were left by members of the public in reply to two online media articles published in 2012 reporting on an Strategies for dismissing dietary risks 2 epidemiological study carried out in the United States on the risks of red meat consumption.We found that the comments generally expressed resistance to the risk message, embodied in two main strategies. The first strategy was to discount the message itself by deploying rules of thumb that undermined the applicability of the general risk message to the particularities of the individual. The second strategy was to undermine the risks by casting doubt on the credibility of the message source. Together, these strategies allowed the commenters to argue that the risks and the process of communicating them resulted in an exaggerated picture.These findings highlight that by attributing amplification to others, further polarisation of risk views between stakeholders may occur. Thinking about amplification as an attribution provides a distinct and significant conceptual contribution to the study of incongruent risk responses.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

Section: Online Methodology: the News Media's Comments Sectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies for dismissing dietary risks: insights from user-generated comments online

Regan

Shan

McConnon

et al. 2014

Health, Risk & Society

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“…They are necessary for diagnoses and treatment, "benevolent saviours" without whose aid patients cannot lose weight (Glenn, McGannon, & Spence, 2012;Groven & Braithwaite, 2015). This framing is essential to the positioning of WLS as medically indicated (Glenn, Champion, & Spence, 2012;Groven & Braithwaite, 2015, Groven & Hofman, 2015.…”

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The experience of regaining weight following weight loss surgery: A narrative-phenomenological exploration

Groven

Glenn

2016

Health Care for Women International

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Weight loss surgery (WLS) is gaining ground as the most effective treatment against obesity. In the literature, however, we see a divide among individuals who have undergone WLS based on the amount of weight lost and maintained: successful and unsuccessful patients. In this article, we focus on the notion of unsuccessful patients-exploring the accounts of three women who have regained weight following WLS. In doing so, we endeavor to better understand how weight regain has meaning, and its impact and implications for the lives of individuals who undergo WLS. The findings reveal how weight-regain stories are easily silenced, buried beneath social, cultural, and institutional/medical narratives of successful weight loss and transformation. People who have such experiences may feel reticent to reveal them and in doing so increase their own suffering, therefore leaving the popular narratives unchallenged.

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“…The 53 FSAFNs extracted from the original sample were all initially read in order to facilitate immersion in the topic (Glenn, Champion, and Spence 2012), and were then analysed in a two stage methodology. The first stage involved a summative analysis of all FSAFN using word search criteria that involved the words 'culture' and 'cultural' (Hsieh and Shannon 2005) with the purpose of capturing all references to the term 'culture'.…”

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Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach

Ring

Bryce

McKinney³

et al. 2014

Journal of Risk Research

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Following the financial crisis and a series of mis-selling and 'rigging' scandals in the financial services, organisational culture, and particularly the risk culture of organisations, has come to be regarded as a key issue for both financial firms and their regulators This paper considers the extent to which regulatory published notices, 'Final Notices' (FNs), relating to breaches of the regulatory Handbook, are able to provide lessons, or pointers, in the development of 'appropriate' cultures. By undertaking a qualitative content analysis of all the FNs in 2012, we examine the extent to which FNs draw attention to issues of culture, and to the regulator's analysis of the drivers of culture published as part of its treating customers fairly (TCF) initiative. The analysis finds that, although not easy to extract, there are important learning points in FNs relating to organisational culture, and in particular to the factors driving behaviours and outcomes that are signs of poor culture. This paper suggests that, whilst it may not be for a regulator to dictate firms' culture, it could do much more to make use of the content of FNs as a learning tool for firms; particularly in the context of its cultural framework for TCF. This would support the 'outcomes-based' approach being espoused by the UK's regulators.Keywords: risk culture; Final Notice; treating customers fairly; content analysis; Financial Conduct Authority The crisis exposed significant shortcomings in the governance and risk management of firms and the culture and ethics which underpin them. (Sants 2012a) Introduction Organisational culture in financial services firms has become an important issue for the UK's regulator (Sants 2010a;2010b, Wheatley 2012a as well as the firms themselves (Salz 2013). In the wake of the financial crisis, significant academic attention has also been paid to risk culture within financial organisations (Ashby, Palermo, and Power 2012; FSA 2012a;McConnell 2014). Given the behaviour of 'rogue' individuals, the inadequacies of large organisations such as RBS and HSBC, and the failings of an industry as a whole as evidenced by scandals such as PPI and LIBOR (Bryce, Cheevers, and Webb 2013), it is increasingly argued that, for financial firms, Journal of Risk Research, 2016 Vol. 19, No. 3, 364-387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2014 an appropriate risk culture is a key element of an appropriate firm culture; that is, the acceptability of '"doing what we do" in the ordinary course of business' (IIF 2009, AIII2).Ashby , Palermo, and Power draw attention to an increasing expansion, since the financial crisis, in the use of the term 'risk culture' in the news, and by professional bodies and consultancy firms (2012, 19). For example, in KPMG's 2008 global survey on risk management in banks, which covered over 400 professionals involved in risk management in 79 countries, it was found that 77% of participants were dedicated to establishing a more effective risk culture, with 48% citing risk culture as the element of risk manageme...

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Qualitative content analysis of online news media coverage of weight loss surgery and related reader comments

Cited by 45 publications

References 25 publications

Strategies for dismissing dietary risks: insights from user-generated comments online

Strategies for dismissing dietary risks: insights from user-generated comments online

The experience of regaining weight following weight loss surgery: A narrative-phenomenological exploration

Taking notice of risk culture – the regulator’s approach

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