Weight Bias: Twitter as a Tool for Opening Dialogue among Broad Audiences

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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Emily P.
dc.contributor.authorRussell-Mayhew, Shelly
dc.contributor.authorNutter, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorArthur, Nancy
dc.contributor.authorKassan, Anusha
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-11T21:25:02Z
dc.date.available2024-06-11T21:25:02Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-03
dc.descriptionWilliams, E.P., Russell-Mayhew, S., Nutter, S., Arthur, N., and Kassan, A. (2018). Weight Bias: Twitter as a Tool for Opening Dialogue among Broad Audiences. Social Networking, 7, 111-125.
dc.description.abstractTwitter is a tool for strengthening research knowledge mobilization to the general public. In this article, we highlight how Twitter can be used to open social dialogue about research related topics between users from multiple perspectives, using the topic of weight bias; a cultural issue largely perpetuated by the media. Specifically, Twitter (@UCalgary Body BS) was used by an interdisciplinary research team to under line cases of global news, stories, and policy related to weight bias and/or weight-related issues for a broad audience to consume. We position Twitter as a relevant means for 1) shaping the research lifecycle, 2) increasing community participation and engagement regarding specific research topics, 3) co-creating evolving social dialogues and critique, 4) reaching broader audiences, 5) opening up sites of debate and tension within a topic, and 6) engaging with a topic salient within our society, a topic that saturates the media—weight bias.
dc.identifier.citationWilliams, E. , Russell-Mayhew, S. , Nutter, S. , Arthur, N. and Kassan, A. (2018) Weight Bias: Twitter as a Tool for Opening Dialogue among Broad Audiences. Social Networking, 7, 111-125. doi: 10.4236/sn.2018.73009.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4236/sn.2018.73009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1880/118870
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherScientific Research Publishing Inc.
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Educationen
dc.publisher.hasversionpublishedVersion
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.policyhttps://www.scirp.org/journal/forauthors?journalid=1589
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dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectTwitter
dc.subjectSocial Media
dc.subjectSocial Networking
dc.subjectWeight Bias
dc.subjectKnowledge Mobilization
dc.subjectOpening Dialogue
dc.titleWeight Bias: Twitter as a Tool for Opening Dialogue among Broad Audiences
dc.typeArticle
ucalgary.scholar.levelGraduate, Faculty
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