Eating disorders affect millions worldwide, yet persistent stigma, cultural myths and misconceptions continue to exacerbate the psychological distress of those who suffer. In search of relief and companionship, many individuals turn to the communicative spaces offered by social media. This interdisciplinary study combines a critical perspective on discourse and embodied cognition with an action-theoretical linguistic analysis to explore the therapeutic potential of vlogging on YouTube in contrast to traditional healthcare institutions. By reconstructing how individuals with eating disorders articulate their lived experiences of pain, loss and social isolation for different audiences, this book further examines how hegemonic-dominant ideologies shape narratives of health and illness, and unwittingly reinforce the stigmas surrounding debilitating conditions.
List of figures - Foreword - Acknowledgments -Chapter 1 Introductory
Remarks
Chapter 2 Eating Disorders, Social Stigmatization and Illness
Narratives: Theoretical Perimeters
Chapter 3 Toward a Methodological
Roadmap
Chapter 4 A Critical (Speech) Action-Theoretical Approach to ED
Vlogging
Chapter 5 Data Collection and Preparation
Chapter 6 The Bulimic
Self Between Inferiorization and Empowerment
Chapter 7 The Anorexic Self
Between Agency and Patiency
Chapter 8 The Bulimic Self Between Repulsion
and Affiliation
Chapter 9 Discussion of Results and Methodological
Reflections
Chapter 10 Toward Re-Thinking Health Communication? -
Bibliography - Appendix
Nicola Hoppe has been researching and teaching at the Department of Intercultural Communication at the University of Hildesheim since 2015. Their research interests lie in the fields of linguistic pragmatics theory, illness communication, deixis theory, institutional theory, and embodied cognition.
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