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The Rise and Fall of ‘Girlsdrinkdiaries.com’: Dilemmas and Opportunities When Creating Online Forums to Investigate Health Behaviour

Stepney, Melissa (2014) The Rise and Fall of ‘Girlsdrinkdiaries.com’: Dilemmas and Opportunities When Creating Online Forums to Investigate Health Behaviour. Health & Place, 27. pp. 51-58. ISSN 1353-8292

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Abstract

This paper explores the potential dilemmas and opportunities for setting up online discussion forums when undertaking research on health-related behaviour. It draws on the setting up of a website called ‘girlsdrinkdiaries.com’ which sought to understand young women's relationship(s) with alcohol and their feelings about drinking and drunkenness. I reflect on how the use of virtual space may allow for more liberated and ‘free’ talk about sensitive topics in health, yet at the same time may create a voyeuristic and potentially abusive environment. In doing so, I explore the ultimate demise of the website and therefore the potential problems of utilising online methods. I suggest that researchers need to carefully mitigate and negotiate harm when considering such methods, whilst also acknowledging how participants themselves resist and negotiate risk in virtual places.

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Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: alcohol, women, online, Internet, health
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions: College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Science and the Environment
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Depositing User: Melissa Stepney
Date Deposited: 06 Jul 2019 18:46
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2020 17:30
URI: https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/8288

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