Aphasia Hope Offers Online Forum

ASHA Leader ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Keyword(s):  
Online Forum

scholarly journals Biosociality in Online Interactions: Youths’ Positioning of the Highly Sensitive Person Category

Young ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110330882110158
Author(s):  
Fanny Edenroth-Cato ◽  
Björn Sjöblom
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Structuralist Theory ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Sensitive Person

This article examines how young people in a Swedish online forum and in blogs engage in discussions of one popularized psychological personality trait, the highly sensitive person (HSP), and how they draw on different positionings in discursive struggles around this category. The material is analysed with concepts from discursive psychology and post-structuralist theory in order to investigate youths’ interactions. The first is a nuanced positioning, from which youths disclose the weaknesses and strengths of being highly sensitive. Some youths become deeply invested in this kind of positioning, hence forming a HSP subjectivity. This can be opposed using contrasting positionings, which objects to norms of biosociality connected to the HSP. Lastly, there are rather distanced and investigative approaches to the HSP category. We conclude that while young people are negotiating the HSP category, they are establishing an epistemological community.

When virtuous paedophiles meet online: A sociological study of a paedophile community

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072097930
Author(s):  
Marie H Nielsen ◽  
Line Aaskov ◽  
Jørgen E Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Adult Child ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Online Forum

On the online forum Virtuous Paedophiles, experiences of being sexually attracted to children are discussed based on the belief that ‘adult-child sex’ is wrong. Having explored the forum’s culture of support, advice, and negotiations, we find that the stigmatised paedophile character limits both the understanding of being a paedophile and the ability to remain virtuous. Additionally, ideas about the paedophile character allow the formation of a counter discourse: the virtuous paedophile character. We argue that the justifications used in the forum differ from those in pro-contact communities and that the forum can help paedophiles be offense-free.

Use of an online forum for relatives of people with psychosis and bipolar disorder: a multi-method study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Jones ◽  
Dimitrinka Atanasova ◽  
Susanna Dodd ◽  
Susan Flowers ◽  
Anna Rosala-Harris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Age Range

BACKGROUND Relatives of people with psychosis or bipolar disorder experience high levels of distress but typically are not offered the support they need. Peer online forums may offer a solution, but knowledge about who uses them, how and why is limited. The current study reported on online forum usage during the REACT trial [21]. OBJECTIVE We aimed to report: (1) who used the forum and why; (2) how sociodemographic factors are associated with participation; (3) the relationships between frequency, type of use, and outcomes; and (4) how the forum was used. METHODS Relationships between key socio-demographic characteristics, levels of forum use, and distress were statistically analysed. We used thematic and semantic analysis to understand the reasons relatives joined the forum and the key topics initiated by them. We also used the UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS) to compare how relatives and REACT Supporters (moderators) used the forum. RESULTS 348 participants from REACT had complete web-usage data and were included in this study. The forum was accessed by 59% of relatives across the whole age range with no significant associations between sociodemographic factors and forum participation, or between level/type of use and relatives’ distress levels. Relatives joined the forum primarily to find people in similar circumstances, express concerns and talk about stressful events. Relatives were concerned most about recent events, negative emotions linked to caring, experiences of conflict/threat, and concerns about suicide. These posts underscored both the challenges relatives were facing and that they felt safe to share these in this context. CONCLUSIONS Whilst only a proportion of REACT participants engaged actively with its forum they are widely distributed across age and other sociodemographic groupings. Relatives used the forum for information, support and guidance and to offer detailed information about their experiences. The topics raised highlight the burden carried by relatives and the potential value of easy access, moderated, peer supported forums in helping relatives manage the challenges they face.

scholarly journals Development of Domain Ontology for a Semantic Online Forum

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 750-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazalina Hashim ◽  
Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah
Keyword(s):  
Domain Ontology ◽  
Online Forum

scholarly journals Concept of Soft Violence in Critical Security Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-108
Author(s):  
Candyce Kelshall ◽  
Natalie Archutowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
Transnational Social Movements

On September 16, 2021, Professor Candyce Kelshall and Ms. Natalie Archutowski presented on the Concept of Soft Violence in Critical Security Studies at the 2021 CASIS Vancouver Defence and Security Advisory Network online forum. Primary topics included: evaluating violence as soft in nature, how and where soft violence might fit in the realm of critical security studies, violent transnational social movements (VTSMs), sharp power, and soft power. 

scholarly journals Intraperszonális önszabályozás a biotechnológia korában : Aktuális médiatudományi és szociokulturális reflexiók Ted Chiang Szépségvakság című áldokumentum novellájára

JEL-KÉP ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Ottó Beke ◽  
Zoltán Szűts
Keyword(s):  
Online Forum

Tanulmányunk középpontjában Ted Chiang Szépségvakság című novellája áll, mely forgatókönyv formátumával egy televíziós, illetve online formában sugárzott dokumentumműsor felépítését, dramaturgiáját követi. A történet középpontját egy, a szép észlelését megakadályozó fiktív állapot, az úgynevezett kalliagnózia képezi. A novella szereplői egy forgatókönyv – vagy inkább online fórum? – keretei között arról vitáznak, hogy ki kell-e terjeszteni ezt a mesterségesen kiváltható állapotot a társadalom nagyobb csoportjaira, az ötletet támogatók szerint ily módon véve elejét a lookizmusnak, vagyis a külső alapján történő megkülönböztetésnek, egyúttal hozzájárulva ezzel a társadalmi igazságosság előmozdításához, és az erkölcsi fejlődéshez. A novella olyan kérdéseket vet fel, amelyek vizsgálata elengedhetetlenül fontos és aktuális napjaink társadalmi, kulturális és médiakommunikációs környezetében, amikor a telekommunikációs folyamatokban és azokon túl is egyre inkább lehetővé válik az észlelés tárgyát képező kép- és hanganyag technikai befolyásolása.

scholarly journals Trolling the trolls: Online forum users constructions of the nature and properties of trolling

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 233-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryn Alexander Coles ◽  
Melanie West
Keyword(s):  
Online Forum
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