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Idealized Body Images and Fitness Lifestyles on Social Media: A Systematic Review Exploring the Link Between Social Media Use and Symptoms of Orthorexia Nervosa and Muscle Dysmorphia. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Objective Social media (SM) is a source of appearance‐focused content that promotes idealized bodies and appearances. It also spreads misinformation about nutrition and fitness practices. While SM use has been linked to attitudes toward eating disorders, its association with orthorexia nervosa and muscle dysmorphia—characterized by obsessive ...
Vintró-Alcaraz C +3 more
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A Double-Edged Sword Perspective on Young Australians' Use of Social Media: A Structured Narrative Review. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Issue Addressed Social media's potential use has been underestimated in preventive interventions targeting young people despite its importance in psychosocial development. This structured narrative review examined both the positive and negative use of social media by young Australians and its health impacts with a focus on social media‐based ...
Salehi N +6 more
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Lesbian Fandom Remakes the Boy Band
Lesbians and other queer women are typically absent from theorizations of boy band fandom even though boy bands often have sizable lesbian fan bases. Lesbian fandom of the British–Irish boy band One Direction congregated primarily on Tumblr; this fandom ...
Jessica Pruett
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Historicizing the Fan Archive of Talia al Ghul
This personal essay reflects on an online fan archive for DC Comics character Talia al Ghul that was abandoned, after which time dramatic shifts in the fandom occurred, thereby situating the archive as an artifact of the recent historical past and as a ...
Tosha R. Taylor
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Pragmatique discursive du témoignage numérique. Sexisme ordinaire dans le tumblr « Paye ta fac »
L’objectif de cet article est d’examiner le fonctionnement de la pragmatique discursive au sein de l’environnement numérique d’un tumblr, dans le cas de la présentation de témoignage de sexisme dit « ordinaire » dans de l’enseignement supérieur français.
Albin Wagener
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On 24 March 2018, Tumblr terminated 84 user accounts identified as being “linked to Internet Research Agency or IRA (a group closely tied to the Russian government) posing as members of the Tumblr community.” In response, Tumblr deleted the blogs and ...
Indira Neill Hoch
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"She's a fan, but this was supposed to be scientific": Fan misunderstandings and acafan mistakes
I here reflect on my first forays into fan studies, two separate projects on fans' reactions to Tom Hiddleston's short-lived relationship with Taylor Swift. After discovering live tweets of my 2018 Fan Studies Network presentation that included yet-to-be-
Daisy Pignetti
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"This book takes an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. Though it does not receive nearly as much attention as other social media such as Twitter or Facebook, Tumblr and its users have been hugely influential in creating and shifting popular culture, especially ...
McCracken, Allison +3 more
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This article describes two digital assignments that ask students to imaginatively embody characters from eighteenth-century texts written by women in order to cultivate a greater awareness of the critical role of gender and gender critique in these works.
Melanie Holm
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Tumbling or stumbling? Misadventures with Tumblr in the fan studies classroom
Teaching with Tumblr can be tricky, and here I explore some of the failures I've had with the social media site in my class. I argue that learning from pedagogical failure reveals important lapses in our own teaching.
Paul Booth
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