Expert appetite: an exploration of doing and documenting 'healthy living' online

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dc.contributor.advisorMcCoy, Liza
dc.contributor.authorDixit, Jaya
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-18T22:30:29Z
dc.date.available2017-12-18T22:30:29Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 138-141en
dc.description.abstractHealthy living blogs (HLBs) are web sites with a healthy eating focus, where (mainly) women post photos and recipes of their meals and discuss their food-related aspirations and experiences. The growing readership of these blogs reflects the current reimagination of health expertise to include new sources of authority that are steeped in specific and strategic textual and visual representations of the self and "healthy living." This research looked at sixteen popular HLBs to discover visual and rhetorical expressions of expertise, eating and self-improvement, before closely examining four widely-read blog posts to uncover how discourses of healthy eating are taken up by bloggers and readers. This study found that blogger expertise is contingent on particular visual and textual strategies, that members take up scientific and alternative discourses of eating in specific and competent ways and for particular purposes, and that there are tensions in practices of documenting and doing "healthy living."
dc.format.extentviii, 142 leaves ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationDixit, J. (2012). Expert appetite: an exploration of doing and documenting 'healthy living' online (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4701en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/4701
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/105702
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.titleExpert appetite: an exploration of doing and documenting 'healthy living' online
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineSociology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrue
ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 2084 627942956
ucalgary.thesis.notesUARCen
ucalgary.thesis.uarcreleaseyen
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