scholarly journals The Presentation of Self-Harm Recovery: A Thematic Analysis of YouTube Videos

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 1596-1608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selena Ryan-Vig ◽  
Jeff Gavin ◽  
Karen Rodham
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Youtube Videos

scholarly journals Examining the Self-Harm and Suicide Contagion Effects of the Blue Whale Challenge on YouTube and Twitter: Qualitative Study (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amro Khasawneh ◽  
Kapil Chalil Madathil ◽  
Emma Dixon ◽  
Pamela Wiśniewski ◽  
Heidi Zinzow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Suicidal Behaviors ◽  
Blue Whale ◽  
Contagion Effects ◽  
Direct Exposure ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Contagion Risk

BACKGROUND Research suggests that direct exposure to suicidal behaviors and acts of self-harm through social media may increase suicidality through imitation and modeling, particularly in more vulnerable populations. One example of a social media phenomenon that demonstrates how self-harming behavior could potentially be propagated is the blue whale challenge. In this challenge, adolescents and young adults are encouraged to engage in self-harm and eventually kill themselves. OBJECTIVE This paper aimed to investigate the way individuals portray the blue whale challenge on social media, with an emphasis on factors that could pose a risk to vulnerable populations. METHODS We first used a thematic analysis approach to code 60 publicly posted YouTube videos, 1112 comments on those videos, and 150 Twitter posts that explicitly referenced the blue whale challenge. We then deductively coded the YouTube videos based on the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) safe messaging guidelines as a metric for the contagion risk associated with each video. RESULTS The thematic analysis revealed that social media users post about the blue whale challenge to raise awareness and discourage participation, express sorrow for the participants, criticize the participants, or describe a relevant experience. The deductive coding of the YouTube videos showed that most of the videos violated at least 50% of the SPRC safe and effective messaging guidelines. CONCLUSIONS These posts might have the problematic effect of normalizing the blue whale challenge through repeated exposure, modeling, and reinforcement of self-harming and suicidal behaviors, especially among vulnerable populations such as adolescents. More effort is needed to educate social media users and content generators on safe messaging guidelines and factors that encourage versus discourage contagion effects.

scholarly journals Examining the Self-Harm and Suicide Contagion Effects of the Blue Whale Challenge on YouTube and Twitter: Qualitative Study

10.2196/15973 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. e15973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amro Khasawneh ◽  
Kapil Chalil Madathil ◽  
Emma Dixon ◽  
Pamela Wiśniewski ◽  
Heidi Zinzow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Suicidal Behaviors ◽  
Blue Whale ◽  
Contagion Effects ◽  
Direct Exposure ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Contagion Risk

Background Research suggests that direct exposure to suicidal behaviors and acts of self-harm through social media may increase suicidality through imitation and modeling, particularly in more vulnerable populations. One example of a social media phenomenon that demonstrates how self-harming behavior could potentially be propagated is the blue whale challenge. Objective This paper aimed to investigate the way individuals portray the blue whale challenge on social media, with an emphasis on factors that could pose a risk to vulnerable populations. Methods We first used a thematic analysis approach to code 60 publicly posted YouTube videos, 1112 comments on those videos, and 150 Twitter posts that explicitly referenced the blue whale challenge. We then deductively coded the YouTube videos based on the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) safe messaging guidelines as a metric for the contagion risk associated with each video. Results The thematic analysis revealed that social media users post about the blue whale challenge to raise awareness and discourage participation, express sorrow for the participants, criticize the participants, or describe a relevant experience. The deductive coding of the YouTube videos showed that most of the videos violated at least 50% of the SPRC safe and effective messaging guidelines. Conclusions These posts might have the problematic effect of normalizing the blue whale challenge through repeated exposure, modeling, and reinforcement of self-harming and suicidal behaviors, especially among vulnerable populations such as adolescents. More effort is needed to educate social media users and content generators on safe messaging guidelines and factors that encourage versus discourage contagion effects.

testimonial injustice ‘out here in the projects’ – misrecognising victimhood in the bed intruder meme

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M’Balia Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Moral Concern ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Testimonial Injustice

In the wake of ‘Black Lives Matter’, this paper examines the concept of testimonial injustice and the prejudicial stances held towards victims that diminishes the credibility of their claims and the social support they receive from the public. To explore this concept, the following work revisits the widely parodied U.S. originating broadcast news report, The Bed Intruder. In the broadcast, victims of a home invasion and attempted rape deliver a public call that outlines the conditions of their victimhood and the potential threat to the community. A rhetorical stylistic analysis of the victims’ testimonial discourse and a thematic analysis of a sample of YouTube videos that reappropriate and parody their discourse are conducted. The analyses highlight the memetic elements of the video parodies that acknowledge the victimisation and yet strategically misconstrue events in ways that 1) render the victims and their claims less credible and 2) fail to provide them with the moral concern such an acknowledgement deserves.

scholarly journals Making Sense of an Unknown Terrain

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas D. Hughes ◽  
Louise Locock ◽  
Sue Simkin ◽  
Anne Stewart ◽  
Anne E. Ferrey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Impact

Self-harm is common in young people, and can have profound effects on parents and other family members. We conducted narrative interviews with 41 parents and other family members of 38 young people, aged up to 25, who had self-harmed. Most of the participants were parents but included one sibling and one spouse. This article reports experiences of the parent participants. A cross-case thematic analysis showed that most participants were bewildered by self-harm. The disruption to their worldview brought about by self-harm prompted many to undergo a process of “sense-making”—by ruminative introspection, looking for information, and building a new way of seeing—to understand and come to terms with self-harm. Most participants appeared to have been successful in making sense of self-harm, though not without considerable effort and emotional struggle. Our findings provide grounds for a deeper socio-cultural understanding of the impact of self-harm on parents.

A Thematic Analysis of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) YouTube Videos

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Kecojevic ◽  
Zoe C. Meleo-Erwin ◽  
Corey H. Basch ◽  
Mariam Hammouda
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

scholarly journals Self-harm and social media: thematic analysis of images posted on three social media sites

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e027006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Shanahan ◽  
Cathy Brennan ◽  
Allan House
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Explicit Representation ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Self Harm

ObjectivesTo explore the nature of images tagged as self-harm on popular social media sites and what this might tell us about how these sites are used.DesignA visual content and thematic analysis of a sample of 602 images captured from Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.ResultsOver half the images tagged as self-harm had no explicit representation of self-harm. Where there was explicit representation, self-injury was the most common; none of these portrayed images of graphic or shocking self-injury. None of the images we captured specifically encouraged self-harm or suicide and there was no image that could be construed as sensationalising self-harm.Four themes were found across the images: communicating distress, addiction and recovery, gender and the female body, identity and belonging.ConclusionsFindings suggest that clinicians should not be overly anxious about what is being posted on social media. Although we found a very few posts suggesting self-injury was attractive, there were no posts that could be viewed as actively encouraging others to self-harm. Rather, the sites were being used to express difficult emotions in a variety of creative ways, offering inspiration to others through the form of texts or shared messages about recovery.

scholarly journals Rare case report of Van Gogh syndrome in a patient with paranoid schizophrenia

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. e100095
Author(s):  
Varchasvi Mudgal ◽  
Pali Rastogi ◽  
Vijay Niranjan ◽  
Ramghulam Razdan
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
Rare Case ◽  
Paranoid Schizophrenia ◽  
Ring Finger ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Van Gogh ◽  
Self Mutilation ◽  
Rare Case Report ◽  
Self Harm

AbstractSelf-mutilation is often associated with psychiatric disorders. We describe here a 22-year-old male Indian with decreased sleep, aggressive behaviour, self-muttering, disorganised behaviour, frequent spitting, biting and self-mutilation; he bit off his right ring finger and left thumb (Van Gogh syndrome). Self-harm behaviour was frequently evidenced by family members resulting in various injuries. The patient was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was treated with anti-psychotics which resulted in a decrease in his behavioural disturbances along with treatment for his self-mutilation injuries. Here we discuss Van Gogh syndrome’s presentation of self-mutilation in paranoid schizophrenia and its implications.

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