“Time of the Month” on Twitter: Taboo, Stereotype and Bonding in a No-Holds-Barred Public Arena

Thornton, Leslie-Jean

doi:10.1007/s11199-011-0041-2

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“…Further, the men who demonstrated recognition of the issues underlying their partners' distress, or who were more empathetic to women, appeared to be less likely to take up the victim position. Men's positive accounts of premenstrual changes thus contest cultural assumptions of premenstrual changes as an illness and men as constantly suffering at the hands of (pre)menstrual women (Chrisler & Levy, 1990;Figert, 2005;Thornton, 2013). Also, men's accounts of providing support to their partners premenstrually contest notions of traditional masculinity wherein men are positioned as incapable of being sensitive (Allen, 2007).…”

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“…In Koch's (2006) study, for example, one male participant claimed that PMS was something on which women blamed their "crabby" moods (p. 62). In a more recent study, Thornton (2013) investigated the ways in which menstruation was constructed on the social network Twitter. The tweets that made reference to the menstrual cycle or menstruation were collected and analyzed.…”

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Representations of PMS and Premenstrual Women in Men's Accounts: An Analysis of Online Posts from PMSBuddy.com

King¹,

Ussher²,

Perz³

2014

Women's Reproductive Health

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Representations of PMS and Premenstrual Women in Men's Accounts: An Analysis of Online Posts from PMSBuddy.com

King¹,

Ussher²,

Perz³

2014

Women's Reproductive Health

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“…The scale items that load onto online atmospherics were associated with the following online environment factors: website aesthetics (Wang et al, 2011;Verhagen and van Dolen, 2011); Interactive viewing (McCormick and Livett, 2012;Cyr et al, 2009;Hernandez et al, 2009); 3D virtual model (Wang et al, 2011;Fiore and Jin, 2003); recommendations and communications (Baier and Stuber, 2010;Verhagen and van Dolen, 2011;Endo et al, 2012). The social media variable concerning online attribute motivations for fashion shoppers was supported by the a wide range of up-to-date researches (Gillen and Merchant, 2013;Thornton, 2013;Ko, 2010, 2012;Samsung Design Net, 2009).…”

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Analysing online shopping attributes to influence consumer purchasing for fashion products

Vignali

Zhao

Campaniolo

2014

IJBG

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The fashion industry has stepped into the digital era. There are a great number of firms moving to be the digital companies with the major business process all being supported by the internet (Hajji et al., 2012;Bruce and Daly, 2011). A recent study from Mintel (2012) finds that online fashion purchase has increased by 152% in the UK over the last five years. The aim of this study is to identify the main factors that affect consumer purchases of fashion products online: technology (e-service quality, Poddar et al., 2009;Chen et al., 2010), shopping factor (Verhagen and van Dolen, 2011); website design (Zhang and von Dran, 2000), social media (Gillen and Merchant, 2013; Kim and Ko, 2010) and online atmospherics (Wang et al., 2011). The research involved a quantitative method. A targeted online questionnaire was used to question the target customer group. Data analysis was conducted using compare means, frequency analysis and factor analysis. As for the results, the study confirms that online atmospherics and social media contribute more to online shoppers' purchasing behaviour; as for the rest of online attributes, to some extent, they pose certain impacts on online fashion shoppers purchase behaviour.

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“…Posts are often accompanied with the use of a hashtag to reinforce the user performance that is in display or to solidify disseminated opinions. Such identity relations through enacted self-disclosure on the microblogging site of Twitter have been studied on mental health (Jamison-Powell et al, 2013), sleep (Zappavigna, 2014b), menstruation (Thornton, 2013), self-deprecation (i.e. #badmommy) (Zappavigna, 2013), selfracialized identity (Sharma, 2015), and personal health and fitness (Teodoro and Naaman, 2013).…”

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#INSERTDIETHERE: Tracing the Techno-Linguistic Associations of Dietary Hashtags on Instagram

Pasho¹

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The use of hashtags on social media platforms allows users to navigate vast repositories of information with ease -hashtags technologically mediate as they both enable and shape user experience. This research focuses on the photo-sharing platform of Instagram and the phenomenon of dietary hashtags (DH: singular; DHs: plural) -for example, #healthy, #glutenfree, #vegan, and #whole30. The circulation of these hashtags is analyzed to explore if and how they can influence users' understanding of diets and eating practices.The study uses Actor-Network Theory to describe the performances and impacts of DHs within a technologically mediated space of social media. Through experimenting with the walkthrough method and an Instagram narrative model, the thesis observes discursive associations in dietaryrelated Instagram content. Sample case studies look at the ways in which Instagram has enlarged the sphere of possible associations, which consequently alter food and diet related acts.DH discourses and the ways in which they impact dietary visibility, proliferate dietary belief systems, intentional DH performances (user subjectivities), and dietary-based social/communal affiliation (intersubjective discourse) are first considered separately. The results indicate that Instagram supplements and even displaces food-related acts. Moreover, Instagram creates a virtual environment in which visual and linguistic dietary discourse is performed; thus altering how users learn about food practices, as well as enabling the making of dietary-based associations. The thesis concludes by linking these elements and details how these components assemble in the making of a dietary techno-cultural space. Dietary Hashtagsiii Acknowledgements Irena Knezevic, I cannot thank her enough for being the best and most flexible supervisor. Our office chats, the writing group, and those long car rides have been invaluable to me. She really has been my rock throughout this process.However, I can't forget the rest of my cheerleaders.I want to thank the rest of my committee, Rena Bivens and Michael Mopas. Both Rena and Michael asked me those tricky questions you wish you didn't have to answer; however, they made me think and gave me future direction for my research. I could not ask for better committee members. I also want to thank Merlyna Lim. Although she is not officially on my committee, she has shown me the ways of 'Jedi API.'The whole Communications faculty, including the wonderful Coleen Kornelsen, has helped me along the way. Thank you.I need to thank my partner Hadi. If it wasn't for him, I don't think I could even find my shoes. He has supported me, listened to me endlessly rant about Actor-Network Theory and hashtag /semiology, and he's helped me when disaster happened (laptop failure, car accident).

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“Time of the Month” on Twitter: Taboo, Stereotype and Bonding in a No-Holds-Barred Public Arena

Cited by 35 publications

References 28 publications

Representations of PMS and Premenstrual Women in Men's Accounts: An Analysis of Online Posts from PMSBuddy.com

Representations of PMS and Premenstrual Women in Men's Accounts: An Analysis of Online Posts from PMSBuddy.com

Analysing online shopping attributes to influence consumer purchasing for fashion products

#INSERTDIETHERE: Tracing the Techno-Linguistic Associations of Dietary Hashtags on Instagram

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