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Kaźmierczak, Natalia, Sylwia Kiełbasa, Rafał Patryn, and Antoni Niedzielski. "Anorectic behaviours in pro-ana communities." Medycyna Ogólna i Nauki o Zdrowiu 21, no. 2 (May 14, 2015): 168–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/20834543.1152915.

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Rifai, Emma. "Digital Waistlands: Pro-Ana Communities, Religion, and Embodiment." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 9, no. 2 (October 23, 2020): 207–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10018.

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Abstract Pro-ana is an online community that shares resources that support the progression and maintenance of eating disorders. It simultaneously offers participants anonymity and visibility in virtual space as well as the chance to develop social connections with other like-minded individuals who support, rather than censure, their “deviant” behaviors. This paper attends to the intersection of religion, embodiment, and digital culture in the pro-ana movement by exploring how anas embody religious values through their performances of pro-ana culture. We see this both in terms of the more obvious mobilizations of religious rhetorics common with some of the pro-ana community, as well as in more subtle manifestations of Protestant values embedded in key pro-ana commitments and behaviors. By analyzing the popular pro-ana site “MyPancakeAddiction,” I explore how anas embody this digital culture through performances of a shared value system rooted in commitments to individualism, self-control, and mastery – themes often associated with Protestantism.
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Cantó-Milà, Natàlia, and Swen Seebach. "Ana's Friends. Friendship in Online Pro-Ana Communities." Sociological Research Online 16, no. 1 (February 2011): 149–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2267.

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The objective of this article is to analyse the social relationships within online communities of anorectics, their bonds, their emotions and friendships, and their subsequent relation to anorexia nervosa. The research has focused on their blogs and their forums, which create a space in which they share their experiences, and sometimes encourage each other not to give up on their eating disorder – which they view as an illness, but an illness that has become their lifestyle, and their attitude towards life. Within the article an analysis of the special bonds of friendship that tie the members of the online community together will be presented. Special attention will be paid to the similarities between secret societies and friendship bonds within pro-ana communities.
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Boero, Natalie, and C. J. Pascoe. "Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online." Body & Society 18, no. 2 (May 24, 2012): 27–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x12440827.

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Schott, Nicole D., Lauren Spring, and Debra Langan. "Neoliberalism, Pro-ana/mia Websites, and Pathologizing Women: Using Performance Ethnography to Challenge Psychocentrism." Studies in Social Justice 10, no. 1 (August 11, 2016): 95–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v10i1.1320.

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Key terms such as “pro-ana,” “pro-anorexia,” and “pro-ED” are searched for on the Internet over 13 million times annually. These searches lead to web pages and social media sites where pro-anorexia and “pro-bulimia” (pro-ana/mia) contributors share weight-loss and exercise tips, “thinspiration” slogans, images and videos, and speak openly about their problems with eating and body image. In this article, we outline our initial research on online responses to pro-ana/mia, and describe how we used the data and analyses from this research to create a piece of research-informed theatre, or performance ethnography. The initial research identified a range of responses to pro-ana/mia that were aligned with either dominant or critical discourses on the causes of, and solutions for, pro-ana/mia. Our findings and analyses challenge media portrayals and medical approaches to pro-ana/mia phenomena, and support an alternative, critical analysis of how psychocentrism and neoliberalism foster social injustices for women and girls. Our work nurtures collective efforts to displace dominant ideologies and practices that have serious implications for the socio-cultural, economic, physical and mental health of women and their communities.
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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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Yom-Tov, Elad, Anat Brunstein-Klomek, Or Mandel, Arie Hadas, and Silvana Fennig. "Inducing Behavioral Change in Seekers of Pro-Anorexia Content Using Internet Advertisements: Randomized Controlled Trial." JMIR Mental Health 5, no. 1 (February 22, 2018): e6. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mental.8212.

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Background The influence of pro-anorexia (pro-ana) websites is debated, with studies indicating both negative and positive effects, as well as significant variation in the effects of different websites for those suffering from eating disorders (EDs) and the general population. Online advertising, known to induce behavioral change both online and in the physical world, has not been used so far to modify the search behavior of people seeking pro-ana content. Objective The objective of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to examine if online advertisements (ads) can change online search behaviors of users who are looking for online pro-ana content. Methods Using the Bing Ads system, we conducted an RCT to randomly expose the searchers for pro-ana content to 10 different ads referring people to one of the three websites: the National Eating Disorders Association, the National Institutes of Mental Health, and MyProAna. MyProAna is a pro-ana website that was found in a previous study to be associated with less pathological online behaviors than other pro-ana websites. We followed participants exposed and unexposed to the ads to explore their past and future online searches. The ads were shown 25,554 times and clicked on 217 times. Results Exposure to the ads was associated with a decrease in searches for pro-ana and self-harm content. Reductions were greatest among those referred to MyProAna (reduction of 34.0% [73/215] and 37.2% [80/215] for pro-ana and self-harm, respectively) compared with users who were referred elsewhere (reduction of 15.47% [410/2650] and 3.21% [85/2650], respectively), and with users who were not shown the ads, who increased their behaviors (increase of 57.12% [6462/11,314] and 4.07% [461/11,314], respectively). In addition, those referred to MyProAna increased their search for treatment, as did control users, who did so to a lesser extent. However, users referred elsewhere decreased their searches for this content. Conclusions We found that referring users interested in ED-related content to specific pro-ana communities might lessen their maladaptive online search behavior. This suggests that those who are preoccupied with EDs can be redirected to less pathological online searches through appropriate pathways. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03439553; https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03439553 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/6xNYnxYlw)
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TUBARO, PAOLA, and LISE MOUNIER. "Sociability and support in online eating disorder communities: Evidence from personal networks." Network Science 2, no. 1 (April 2014): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nws.2014.6.

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AbstractWe study how people select their health support ties from their broader personal networks, taking into account the interplay of web-based and face-to-face interactions. We focus on users of self-styled Internet communities on eating disorders, often dubbed “pro-ana” and “pro-mia” and widely feared to contribute to maintaining and spreading these disorders. Despite the controversial anti-medical stances of some of them, “ana-mia” websites may channel mutual assistance, advice, and psychological and emotional support, with ultimate benefits for health.In 2011–12 we fielded an online survey of users of French- and English-language “ana-mia” websites, mapping the composition and structure of their personal networks both online and face-to-face, and their health and eating-related support networks, for two types of health issues. We estimate binary choice models for these data and find that different health needs call for different types of support, embedded in different parts of personal networks. Specifically, online groups provide distinctive sources of help, which partly compensate for perceived shortcomings in healthcare services, although members do not overwhelmingly reject standard health systems and norms. We discuss how web-based groups constitute an important source of social support, and a potential resource for enhanced public health services provision.
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Holland, Kate, Andrew Dickson, and Anna Dickson. "‘To the horror of experts’: reading beneath scholarship on pro-ana online communities." Critical Public Health 28, no. 5 (October 2, 2017): 522–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2017.1382681.

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Harmon, Jennifer, and Nancy Ann Rudd. "Friending Ana: Investigating the prominence and characteristics of pro-anorexia communities on social media." Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 6, no. 2 (March 1, 2019): 243–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fspc.6.2.243_1.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Pro-ana communities"

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Raulli, Stephen John. "From Pro-Ana to Bikini Bridge: The Online Discourse of Eating Disorders." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu151318209255753.

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Book chapters on the topic "Pro-ana communities"

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Alderton, Zoe. "Further Behavioural Observations in Pro-Ana Communities." In Preventing Harmful Behaviour in Online Communities, 86–112. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003126065-7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Pro-ana communities"

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Debnath, Prattyasha Rani, Fathima Amanullah, and Gheyath Nasrallah. "Prevalence of Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA) among Healthy Individuals with Different Nationalities in Qatar." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0201.

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Background: Detection of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) by different immunoassays (usually indirect fluorescence assay IFA) is the most common and sensitive screening test used for the diagnosis of many types of autoimmune disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Moreover, a high titer of ANA can be frequently found in healthy individuals, making it not a very specific marker of autoimmunity. However, the information about the prevalence of these false positive ANA in a healthy individual is not well investigated around the world particularly in Asia and MENA region including Qatar. Objectives: The aim of this study was to (i) estimate the prevalence of ANA among male healthy individuals of local and expatriate communities residing in Qatar and (ii) to evaluate the performance of a new commercial ELISA kit using two quality control parameters; analytical sensitivity (endpoint titration) and positive predictive value (PPV). Methodology: Sera collected from a total of 2965 volunteer donors of age 18 years or older, attending Hamad Medical Corporation between 2013 and 2016, were used to test for the presence of ANA IgG using Bioprobes Srl microplate ELISA kits. All positive ELISA kit results were retested using the IFA IgG for the detection of ANA nuclear staining patterns. Results: ANA prevalence among the healthy population was 0.34%, as only 10 samples out of 2965 were positive by the ANA ELISA. An additional 12 borderline samples were also detected raising the prevalence to 0.74% (22/2965). The Irani nationals had the highest prevalence of ANA with 1.83%. About 70% of the samples had a nuclear-speckled staining pattern. ELISA kit showed excellent performance efficiency, i.e., similar titration score to IFA for positive samples and high PPV (100%). Conclusion: This is the first ANA comprehensive study in the MENA region with such a large sample size. According to literature and our own literature review, the average prevalence of ANA in healthy individuals in a different part of the world is usually about 3-15%; however, in Qatar, it is only 0.34%. We recommend using the new Dia. Pro ELISA kit for ANA screening as this kit showed high efficiency for detecting ANA in comparison to the gold standard IFA assay.
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