Disclaimers

Hewitt, John P.; Stokes, Randall G.

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“…Mentioning epilepsy on purpose provides an opportunity of correcting in advance the negative impression that others could form when they find out about the condition. For example, by playing down the significance of seizures, by presenting epilepsy as a purely medical problem (in the sense of medical disclaimers) (13), or by counteracting possible prejudices toward persons with epilepsy by providing educational information, persons with epilepsy can forestall unfavorable conclusions formed from observing a seizure or based on information from third persons.…”

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Disclose or Conceal? Strategies of Information Management in Persons with Epilepsy

Tröster¹

1997

Epilepsia

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Summary: Purpose: When handling information about their disease in their social contacts, persons with epilepsy try to avoid or limit stigmatization. We report two basic strategies of information management: general concealment and preventive disclosure. To test whether persons with epilepsy apply a strategy of preventive disclosure, we hypothesized that they would disclose their epilepsy when anticipating that their disease would make them conspicuous in social contacts and when believing that they would be able to forestall stigmatizing attribution processes through disclosure. Methods: One hundred nineteen outpatients at the Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, Germany, aged 16–74 years responded to a questionnaire assessing willingness to disclose their epilepsy in various fictitious daily scenarios, the perceived risk that the interaction partner might find out about their epilepsy (risk of detection), as well as the anticipated positive and negative social consequences of disclosure in these social situations. Results: Willingness to disclose varied across the different scenarios, and only a few respondents rejected disclosure categorically. Willingness to disclose depended on the subjectively perceived risk of detection and the anticipated consequences of disclosure: Respondents were more willing to disclose their epilepsy the more they feared that their interaction partner would detect their disease or find out about it in another way and the more they anticipated that disclosure would enable them to exert a favorable impact on their partner's social judgment formation. Conclusions: Many persons with epilepsy appear to apply a strategy of preventive disclosure with which they strive to influence social judgment formation in their environment by purposefully disclosing their disease to forestall possible stigmatization processes.

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Disclose or Conceal? Strategies of Information Management in Persons with Epilepsy

Tröster¹

1997

Epilepsia

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“…In fact, reports of victimization are much more common among Swedish male prisoners than among men in the rest of the population (Nilsson 2002). Nevertheless, presenting oneself as a victim may be tempting, as it elicits sympathy (Holstein and Miller 1990). These interviews gave the young men such an opportunity, which they rejected.…”

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“…This correction may be understood as a disclaimer (cf. Hewitt and Stokes 1975), a way for Ali to make sure that the interviewer does not perceive him, or typify him, as a violent or vindictive person. Ali does not emphasize events or recount responses that could be attributed to his being a victim, i.e.…”

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Refraining from reporting crimes: accounts from young male crime victims with an immigrant background

Åkerström

Rypi²,

Alm

2018

Nordic Social Work Research

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Interactions between the police and young people with an immigrant background are well researched internationally and are often discussed in the context of discrimination. Such interactions may explain, at least in part, why these young people do not report crimes to the police when they are the victims of crimes. This article reports accounts from young crime victims who have an immigrant background. The young men who were interviewed mainly portrayed their decisions not to notify the police in the context of masculinity discourse rather than using a discourse of discrimination, even though the interviewers asked specifically about whether discrimination or trust in the police influenced their decision. We argue that these young men's accounts reflect their preferred self-presentations, since a dicriminination discourse may be tied to a victim identity that is incompatible with hegemonic masculinity.

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“…A key focus here was the treatment of Twitter posts as types of 'account' (Hewitt and Stokes, 1975;Housley and Fitzgerald, 2008;Scott and Lyman, 1968) that are built up through the use of MCDs and associated category-bound features or predicates (Fitzgerald and Housley, 2015). This focus was also contextualised in terms of the sequential characteristics of Twitter threads, and we note that the analysis of the sequential organisation of Twitter threads and multi-party interaction is salient (see Zubiaga et al, 2016).…”

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Membership categorisation and antagonistic Twitter formulations

Housley

Webb

Edwards

et al. 2017

Discourse & Communication

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During the course of this article, we examine the use of membership categorisation practices by a high-profile celebrity public social media account that has been understood to generate interest, attention and controversy across the UK (and wider European) media ecology. We utilise a data set of harvested tweets gathered from a high-profile public 'celebrity antagonist' in order to systematically identify types of antagonistic formulation that have generated different levels of interest within the social media community and beyond. Drawing from classic ethnomethodological studies of banner headlines and other means of generating public interest and 'making sense', we respecify high-profile antagonistic tweets as category formulations that exhibit particular and regular membership category features that are reflexively bound to potential antagonistic readings, interest and controversy. In conclusion, we consider how such formulations may be understood to represent resources that constitute ignition points within antagonistic flows of communication and information that can be metaphorically understood as 'digital wildfires'.

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Disclose or Conceal? Strategies of Information Management in Persons with Epilepsy

Disclose or Conceal? Strategies of Information Management in Persons with Epilepsy

Refraining from reporting crimes: accounts from young male crime victims with an immigrant background

Membership categorisation and antagonistic Twitter formulations

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