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Journal articles on the topic "Body-positive blogs"
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Hynnä, Kaisu, and Katariina Kyrölä. "“Feel in Your Body”: Fat Activist Affects in Blogs." Social Media + Society 5, no. 4 (October 2019): 205630511987998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305119879983.
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This article interrogates how body positive and fat activist blogs offer alternative ways of feeling one’s body, using the Finnish More to Love ( MTL, 2009–2013) and its successor PlusMimmi ( PM, 2013–) and the American Queer Fat Femme Guide to Life ( QFF, 2008–) as its examples. We investigate how these blogs, despite their differences, invite their publics not only to feel positive about their own and others’ norm-exceeding bodies, but to feel in their bodies. While previous studies have criticized body positive discourses for employing a simplistic language of choice and relying on heteronormative logics of feminine attractiveness, they have not paid specific attention to how exactly body positive media attract and engage people affectively. In this article, MTL, PM, and QFF’s strategies of inviting their followers to feel in their bodies are analyzed in the context of three key themes: exercise, fashion, and sex. We argue that when explored through the framework of affect, fat activist blogs do not present body positivity simply as a matter of choice but offer a space to feel through the affective contradictions of inhabiting a fat feminine body in a sizeist society. At their best, body positive blogs open up spaces of comfort which can be radical for bodies accustomed to discomfort.
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Gorbunova, Darya A. "THE BODY AND THE CITY. PERCEPTIONS OF AN URBAN SPACE IN BODY POSITIVE BLOGS ON INSTAGRAM." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 4 (2020): 71–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-4-71-82.
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Sormunen, Taina, Margareta Westerbotn, Arthur Aanesen, Bjöörn Fossum, and Klas Karlgren. "Social media in the infertile community—using a text analysis tool to identify the topics of discussion on the multitude of infertility blogs." Women's Health 17 (January 2021): 174550652110632. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17455065211063280.
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Background: Infertility affects one in six couples. New digital resources exist which enable the study of lived experience of persons with infertility. Blogging represents a forum for sharing narratives and experiences. To provide high quality care for persons with a history of infertility, it is crucial to ascertain what they value as significant in their situation. Blogs with a focus on infertility may provide this information. Objectives: The aim of this study was to gain insight into which infertility-related issues are discussed on Swedish infertility blogs. Methods: In total, 70 infertility blogs were identified on the Internet and 25 met the inclusion criteria. A quantitative–qualitative content analysis was performed with the support of the Gavagai Explorer text analysis software. Results: A total of 4508 postings were retrieved from the blogs, all of which were written by women. The outcome of the analysis resulted into the following topics: Emotions (16.8%), Relations (12.5%), Time and waiting (7.1%), Body (6.6%), Care and treatment (4.2%), Food and diet (1.4%) and Exercise (0.5%). For most topics, there was a balance between positive and negative statements, but the body topic stood out by having more negative than positive sentiment. Conclusion: By considering the topics expressed in blogs, health care personnel are provided with an opportunity to better understand the situation of individuals affected by infertility.
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Ging, Debbie, and Sarah Garvey. "‘Written in these scars are the stories I can’t explain’: A content analysis of pro-ana and thinspiration image sharing on Instagram." New Media & Society 20, no. 3 (January 20, 2017): 1181–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816687288.
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Since pro-anorexia websites began to appear in the 1990s, there has been a growing body of academic work on pro-ana and thinspiration communities online. Underpinned by a range of (inter)disciplinary perspectives, most of this work focuses on websites and blogs. There is a dearth of research and, in particular, gender-aware research on pro-ana practices and discourses in the context of newer mobile social platforms such as Instagram. Using a dataset of 7560 images, this study employs content analysis to ask whether, to what extent and how pro-ana identities and discourses manifest themselves on a more open, image-based platform such as Instagram. We demonstrate that, by mainstreaming pro-ana, Instagram has rendered visible pro-ana sensibilities such as abstinence and self-discipline in the broader context of distressed girls’ lives and Western culture more generally. We conclude that this increased visibility may in fact be a positive development.
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Hamid, Sheeba, Ruksar Ali, Mohd Azhar, and Sujood Khan. "Solo Travel and Well-Being Amongst Women: An Exploratory Study." Indonesian Journal of Tourism and Leisure 2, no. 1 (April 27, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.36256/ijtl.v2i1.125.
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Solo travel is no longer a niche market. It alone contributes a massive amount of the total travel market and has shown an enormous growth in recent years. But the existing body of literature on solo women travelling and its outcomes is quite negligible. Consequent upon the fact, this study significantly contributes in the increment of existing literature. A conceptual model is proposed based on the secondary data sources and presents a discussion on the impact of solo travel experiences on women’s well-being. For this purpose, a range of research papers, articles, blogs and other relevant social media contents have been reviewed to draw conclusive results for the study. In the findings, self-transformation and positive changes in well-being came out as resultant factors of solo travelling in many cases. Major reasons for solo travelling found during the study were—to overcome stress and depression, to bring positive change in present state of life, escape, happiness, empowerment, self-growth and self-realisation. This paper significantly adds to further researches on women solo travelling trends by providing insights into independent form of travel and draws attention towards its importance for women’s health.
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Haimson, Oliver L. "Challenging “Getting Better” Social Media Narratives With Intersectional Transgender Lived Experiences." Social Media + Society 6, no. 1 (January 2020): 205630512090536. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120905365.
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A dominant media narrative of “getting better” over time is often projected onto LGBTQ people’s personal life experiences. In this research study, I examine this narrative’s role in transgender people’s emotional well-being throughout transition. A “getting better” narrative was pervasive in my qualitative analysis of 240 Tumblr transition blogs and 20 interviews with bloggers, signaling that it impacted people’s self-concept both as presented on social media and when talking about their experiences. This narrative causes undue emotional harm given contrast between one’s post-transition reality, which may involve distress (despite greater congruence between one’s body and identity), and a dominant cultural expectation of happiness. I argue that an intersectional approach to understanding trans people’s emotional well-being—by considering multiple salient identity facets and life transitions—makes trans lives more livable by complicating the cultural imperative to feel better, and to present a unilaterally positive self-image online, post-transition. Even though trans people on average feel better after gender transition, everyday realities are often in contrast to the dominant narrative’s positioning of gender transition as a process with a single, simple goal of feeling better. Challenging the “getting better” narrative gives trans people the freedom to live and exist in their post-transition identities, whether or not they feel “better.”
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Biblin, A. M., G. A. Arkhangelskaya, S. A. Zelentsova, E. V. Khramtsov, R. R. Akhmatdinov, N. V. Sokolov, and V. S. Repin. "RISK-COMMUNICATION ISSUES IN RADIATION SAFETY: PREFERENCES OF THE PUBLIC IN THE LENINGRAD AND MURMANSK REGIONS ON THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION." Radiatsionnaya Gygiena = Radiation Hygiene 11, no. 2 (July 12, 2018): 60–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21514/1998-426x-2018-11-2-60-73.
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A survey of the population of the Leningrad and Murmansk regions was conducted in 2016–2017. The survey was devoted to the study of preferred sources of information on radiation safety. The sample size in the Leningrad region was 962 respondents, and in the Murmansk region – 802 respondents. It was found that less than 30% of respondents living in the Leningrad and Murmansk regions show interest in obtaining information on radiation safety. The respondents noted the greatest importance in obtaining information on three topics: «the effect of radiation on the body and the impact on health», «radiation protection measures available at the place of residence», and «dangerous and safe radiation levels». The possibility of obtaining accessible and regular information about the radiation situation in the place of residence is in demand among approximately 45% of respondents in the Leningrad region and 37% in the Murmansk region. Television, Internet and the SMS alerts were most often chosen by respondents as the most appropriate source of such information. With age, the proportion of users of traditional media, especially television, is increasing, among women slightly more than among men. The population revealed distrust of the media as sources of information about the radiation situation and safety, the confidence index for all types of media is negative. In the Murmansk region, the index of confidence in the media is lower than that in the Leningrad region. Among all types of mass media, TV has the greatest confidence in the population. On the Internet, the official websites of Rospotrebnadzor and Rosatom, as well as the official websites of local authorities in the Leningrad region, which have positive trust index, have the greatest confidence in the population. Search services, blogs, social networks, media sites, and official sites of local authorities in the Murmansk region have negative confidence index. More than a half of the population considers the inclusion of special training programs in the system of secondary and higher education to be the most effective method of improving environmental literacy. The following methods of educational work are also in demand: lectures and seminars with the participation of specialists and watching videos.
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Magnini, Vincent P., Derya Kara, John C. Crotts, and Anita Zehrer. "Culture and service-related positive disconfirmations." Journal of Vacation Marketing 18, no. 3 (July 2012): 251–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1356766712449371.
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It has long been understood in the service sector that positive disconfirmations of expectations drive customer satisfaction. Using a sample of 334 consumers’ travel blog postings that describe positive disconfirmations of international hotel guests, this research finds that a traveler’s home country culture influences whether or not the positive disconfirmation is service-related. Specifically, travelers from individualistic countries and low power distance countries experience a greater proportion of service-related positive disconfirmations than those from collective or high power distance nations. From a theoretical perspective, this research extends the emerging body of research that demonstrates the various influences of culture on consumer satisfaction.
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Leech, Dennis. "An Empirical Comparison of the Performance of Classical Power Indices." Political Studies 50, no. 1 (March 2002): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.00356.
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Power indices are general measures of the relative a priori voting power of individual members of a voting body. They are useful for both positive and normative analysis of voting bodies particularly those using weighted voting. This paper applies new algorithms for computing the rival Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf indices for large voting bodies to shareholder voting power in a cross section of British companies. Each company is a separate voting body and there is much variation in ownership between them resulting in different power structures. Because the data are incomplete, both finite and ‘oceanic’ games of shareholder voting are analysed. The indices are appraised, using reasonable criteria, from the literature on corporate control. The results are unfavourable to the Shapley-Shubik index and suggest that the Banzhaf index much better reflects the variations in the power of shareholders between companies as the weights of shareholder blocs vary.
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Reef, Susan E., Brent A. Lasker, Dona S. Butcher, Michael M. McNeil, Ruth Pruitt, Harry Keyserling, and William R. Jarvis. "Nonperinatal Nosocomial Transmission ofCandida albicans in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Prospective Study." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 36, no. 5 (1998): 1255–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jcm.36.5.1255-1259.1998.
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Nosocomial Candida albicans infections have become a major cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). To determine the possible modes of acquisition of C. albicans in hospitalized neonates, we conducted a prospective study at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Ga. Clinical samples for fungal surveillance cultures were obtained at birth from infants (mouth, umbilicus, and groin) and their mothers (mouth and vagina) and were obtained from infants weekly until they were discharged. All infants were culture negative for C. albicans at birth. Six infants acquired C. albicansduring their NICU stay. Thirty-four (53%) of 64 mothers were C. albicans positive (positive at the mouth, n = 26; positive at the vagina, n = 18; positive at both sites, n = 10) at the time of the infant’s delivery. A total of 49 C. albicans isolates were analyzed by restriction endonuclease analysis and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis by using genomic blots hybridized with the CARE-2 probe. Of the mothers positive for C. albicans, 3 of 10 were colonized with identical strains at two different body sites, whereas 7 of 10 harbored nonidentical strains at the two different body sites. Four of six infants who acquired C. albicanscolonization in the NICU had C. albicans-positive mothers; specimens from all mother-infant pairs had different restriction endonuclease and CARE-2 hybridization profiles. One C. albicans-colonized infant developed candidemia; the colonizing and infecting strains had identical banding patterns. Our study indicates that nonperinatal nosocomial transmission of C. albicans is the predominant mode of acquisition by neonates in NICUs at this hospital; mothers may be colonized with multiple strains of C. albicans simultaneously; colonizing C. albicans strains can cause invasive disease in neonates; and molecular biology-based techniques are necessary to determine the epidemiologic relatedness of maternal and infant C. albicans isolates and to facilitate determination of the mode of transmission.
Book chapters on the topic "Body-positive blogs"
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Johansson, Anna. "Fat, Black and Unapologetic: Body Positive Activism Beyond White, Neoliberal Rights Discourses." In Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality, 113–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47432-4_5.
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Abstract Body positivity messages and practices are rapidly being spread transnationally, particularly in the form of digital activism, challenging oppressive body ideals and advocating for diversity and the acceptance of all body types. At the same time, however, the movement is increasingly being criticised for its commodification, how it goes hand in hand with neoliberalism and its lack of intersectional perspectives. This text investigates the potential of the expansion, redefinition and ‘repoliticising’ of body positivity beyond the white, neoliberal discourse. The analysis mainly dives into the texts and images of blogs by two body positive advocates, Leah Vernon and Stephanie Yeboah, who both identify as black and fat and who both address the issues of race and racism. It is suggested that through their body politics, they display how race and gender are intersected in the shaping of both body shaming and the production of ‘proud’ bodies, thus contributing to the situatedness of body positivity. The stance of being unapologetic in one’s body—a central element of body positivity—is regarded as being reframed through the contestation of the whiteness privilege and racism.
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Ferri, Pablo, Carlos Sáez, Antonio Félix-De Castro, Purificación Sánchez-Cuesta, and Juan M. García-Gómez. "Discovering Key Topics in Emergency Medical Dispatch from Free Text Dispatcher Observations." In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. IOS Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/shti220607.
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The objective of this work was to discover key topics latent in free text dispatcher observations registered during emergency medical calls. We used a total of 1374931 independent retrospective cases from the Valencian emergency medical dispatch service in Spain, from 2014 to 2019. Text fields were preprocessed to reduce vocabulary size and filter noise, removing accent and punctuation marks, along with uninformative and infrequent words. Key topics were inferred from the multinomial probabilities over words conditioned on each topic from a Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, trained following an online mini-batch variational approach. The optimal number of topics was set analyzing the values of a topic coherence measure, based on the normalized pointwise mutual information, across multiple validation K-folds. Our results support the presence of 15 key topics latent in free text dispatcher observations, related with: ambulance request; chest pain and heart attack; respiratory distress; head falls and blows; fever, chills, vomiting and diarrhea; heart failure; syncope; limb injuries; public service body request; thoracic and abdominal pain; stroke and blood pressure abnormalities; pill intake; diabetes; bleeding; consciousness. The discovery of these topics implies the automatic characterization of a huge volume of complex unstructured data containing relevant information linked to emergency medical call incidents. Hence, results from this work could lead to the update of structured emergency triage algorithms to directly include this latent information in the triage process, resulting in a positive impact in patient wellbeing and health services sustainability.