The search for peer advice in cyberspace: An examination of online teen bulletin boards about health and sexuality

Suzuki, Lalita K.; Calzo, Jerel P.

doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2004.09.002

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“…There are many teen-friendly Web sites that provide comprehensive information about these issues, and some of these sites get tens of thousands of unique visitors per day and are connected to popular social networking Web sites. Even though it is useful to examine the traffic to these sites and the kinds of questions submitted, there are many more teens who, while Internet savvy, never make it to the sites or may do so but without being certain if they can trust the information (Gilbert, Temby, & Rogers, 2005;Harvey, Brown, Crawford, Macfarlane, & McPherson, 2007;Suzuki & Calzo, 2004). The potential is great for the Internet to link teens to accurate sexual health information and to build their trust and confidence in the information they get, but doing so only through Internet-based approaches may not be completely effective.…”

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Is the Internet Filling the Sexual Health Information Gap for Teens? An Exploratory Study

Jones

Biddlecom

2011

Journal of Health Communication

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Is the Internet Filling the Sexual Health Information Gap for Teens? An Exploratory Study

Jones

Biddlecom

2011

Journal of Health Communication

115

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“…We also have the example of Internet health tools-probably an amalgamation of bulletin boards (Suzuki & Calzo, 2004) and informational Web sites-that play a unique role in providing health information in the Third World (Borzekowski et al).…”

Section: Adolescents In a Globalized Internet Worldmentioning

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Children, adolescents, and the Internet: A new field of inquiry in developmental psychology.

Greenfield¹,

Yan²

2006

Developmental Psychology

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With this special section on children, adolescents, and the Internet, we survey the state of a new field of enquiry in developmental psychology. This field is important because developmentalists need to understand how children and adolescents live in a new, massive, and complex virtual universe, even as they carry on their lives in the real world. We have selected six empirical articles to showcase various aspects of child and adolescent development in this virtual universe. These articles reflect three major themes of this new field:

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“…This research considers the interactions within an online forum discussion board specifically for male infertility. Online means for communicating about health and illness is increasingly popular among the general population (White and Dorman, 2001;Suzuki and Calzo, 2004) with forums and social media (such as blogs) being regarded as tools for lay people to seek help and share on a multitude of topics. Evidence of men seeking help for health related issues online is increasing (for example see Flynn and Stana, 2011;AUTHOR 2, 2015), with some studies also exploring how men support and advise each other on issues ranging from weight management (AUTHOR 3, 2012) to coping with testicular cancer (Seymour-Smith, 2013).…”

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Emoting infertility online: A qualitative analysis of men’s forum posts

Hanna

Gough

2016

Health (London)

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Relatively little research on infertility focuses exclusively or significantly on men's experiences, particularly in relation to emotional aspects. Evidence that does exist around male infertility suggests that it is a distressing experience for men, due to stigma, threats to masculinity and the perceived need to suppress emotions, and that men and women experience infertility differently.Using thematic analysis, this paper examines the online emoting of men in relation to infertility via forum posts from a men-only infertility discussion board. It was noted that men 'talked' to each other about the emotional burdens of infertility, personal coping strategies and relationships with others. Three major themes were identified following in-depth analysis: 'the emotional rollercoaster'; 'the tyranny of infertility'; and 'infertility paranoia'. This paper then offers insights into how men experience infertility emotionally, negotiate the emotional challenges involved (especially pertaining to diagnosis, treatment outcomes and their intimate relationships), and how they share, (and find value in doing so) with other men with lived experience of infertility.

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The search for peer advice in cyberspace: An examination of online teen bulletin boards about health and sexuality

Cited by 244 publications

References 30 publications

Is the Internet Filling the Sexual Health Information Gap for Teens? An Exploratory Study

Is the Internet Filling the Sexual Health Information Gap for Teens? An Exploratory Study

Children, adolescents, and the Internet: A new field of inquiry in developmental psychology.

Emoting infertility online: A qualitative analysis of men’s forum posts

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