Secret Society 123: Understanding the Language of Self-Harm on Instagram

Moreno, Megan A.; Ton, Adrienne; Selkie, Ellen; Evans, Yolanda

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.09.015

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“…Nonsuicidal self-injury content may also be easily discovered and socialized on social media, with descriptive analyses of Instagram revealing millions of posts containing self-injury content, spread through the use of ambiguous hashtags (Moreno et al 2016). The visualness of social media may make these posts particularly powerful.…”

Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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As social media use becomes increasingly widespread among adolescents, research in this area has accumulated rapidly. Researchers have shown a growing interest in the impact of social media on adolescents' peer experiences, including the ways that the social media context shapes a variety of peer relations constructs. This paper represents Part 2 of a two-part theoretical review. In this review, we offer a new model for understanding the transformative role of social media in adolescents' peer experiences, with the goal of stimulating future empirical work that is grounded in theory. The transformation framework suggests that the features of the social media context transform adolescents' peer experiences by changing their frequency or immediacy, amplifying demands, altering their qualitative nature, and/or offering new opportunities for compensatory or novel behaviors. In the current paper, we consider the ways that social media may transform peer relations constructs that often occur at the group level. Our review focuses on three key constructs: peer victimization, peer status, and peer influence. We selectively review and highlight existing evidence for the transformation of these domains through social media. In addition, we discuss methodological considerations and key conceptual principles for future work. The current framework offers a new theoretical perspective through which peer relations researchers may consider adolescent social media use.

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Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

201

236

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“…fresh wounds on top of old scars). In a study using the hashtag #selfharmmm, a popular hashtag on Instagram for NSSI, Moreno et al (2015) identified different hashtags commonly used in association with NSSI pictures (i.e. #cat, #selfinjur-yyy, #blithe) and mechanisms at work in the network.…”

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#cutting: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) on Instagram

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Fischer²,

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Background. Social media presents an important means for social interaction, especially among adolescents, with Instagram being the most popular platform in this age-group. Pictures and communication about non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) can frequently be found on the internet.Methods. During 4 weeks in April 2016, n = 2826 (from n = 1154 accounts) pictures which directly depicted wounds on Instagram were investigated. Those pictures, associated comments, and user accounts were independently rated for content. Associations between characteristics of pictures and comments as well as weekly and daily trends of posting behavior were analyzed.Results. Most commonly, pictures depicted wounds caused by cutting on arms or legs and were rated as mild or moderate injuries. Pictures with increasing wound grades and those depicting multiple methods of NSSI generated elevated amounts of comments. While most comments were neutral or empathic with some offering help, few comments were hostile. Pictures were mainly posted in the evening hours, with a small peak in the early morning. While there was a slight peak of pictures being posted on Sundays, postings were rather evenly spread across the week.Conclusions. Pictures of NSSI are frequently posted on Instagram. Social reinforcement might play a role in the posting of more severe NSSI pictures. Social media platforms need to take appropriate measures for preventing online social contagion.

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“…Despite benefits inherent in SNS platforms, they are not regulated by the same editorial standards of traditional media (Castillo, Mendoza, & Poblete, ; Moreno, Ton, Selkie, and Evans, ; O'Sullivan, and Heinonen, ; Schifferes et al., ). Although standards have been published to guide coverage of self‐injury and suicide in traditional media formats (Annenberg Public Policy Center, ; Gould, ), these standards are not reflected in the user‐generated content available on SNS platforms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%