Title
"Notjustgirls": Exploring Male-related Eating Disordered Content across Social Media Platforms
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Eating disorders (EDs) are a worldwide public health concern that impact approximately 10% of the U.S. population. Our previous research characterized these behaviors across online spaces. These characterizations have used clinical terminology, and their lexical variants, to identify ED content online. However, previous HCI research on EDs (including our own) suffers from a lack of gender and cultural diversity. In this paper, we designed a follow-up study of online ED characterizations, extending our previous methodologies to focus specifically on male/masculine-related content. We highlight the similarities and differences found in the terminology utilized and media archetypes associated with the social media content. Finally, we discuss other considerations highlighted through our analysis of the male-related content that is missing from the previous research.
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
5-2019
Publication Title
37th ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI 2019)
Recommended Citation
Pater, J., Reining, L., Miller, A., Toscos, T., Mynatt, E. (2019) "Notjustgirls": Exploring Male-related Eating Disordered Content across Social Media Platforms. 37th ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI 2019), May 4-9, Glasgow, Scotland, UK,1-13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300881