Tweeting weight loss: A comparison of #thinspiration and #fitspiration communities on Twitter

•Thinspiration and fitspiration online communities were compared on Twitter.•The thinspiration community is more closely connected and has greater information flow.•Tweets from both forms of account focus on appearance and weight loss.•Fitspiration tweets are more positive in sentiment. Thinspiratio...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Body image 2018-06, Vol.25, p.133-138
Hauptverfasser:	Tiggemann, Marika, Churches, Owen, Mitchell, Lewis, Brown, Zoe
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Body image Body Image - psychology Disordered eating Feeding and Eating Disorders - psychology Fitspiration Humans Social Media Social Networking Social networks Social Support Thinspiration Twitter Weight Loss
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