Yeshua-Katz Daphna
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Qual Health Res. 2015 Oct;25(10):1347-58. doi: 10.1177/1049732315570123. Epub 2015 Feb 9.
Media scholars often use concepts from Goffman's dramaturgical approach to study online communities of stigmatized individuals as "backstages," spaces where members take refuge from social disapproval. In this study, I extend this view through an examination of in-depth interviews with bloggers from the "pro-ana" community, an online community for people with eating disorders. To explore how this community uses an online environment that is both anonymous and public, I fuse Goffman's ideas about identity performance and stigma with more recent theories about boundary maintenance. In-depth interviews with "pro-ana" bloggers reveal that to protect this virtual group and resist stigmas associated both with their illness and with their online presence, they construct their own norms and rules in the online realm, and discipline and eject members deemed to be out-group.
媒体学者经常运用戈夫曼戏剧化方法中的概念，将受污名化个体的在线社区视为“后台”，即成员躲避社会非议的空间。在本研究中，我通过对“亲厌食症”社区博主的深度访谈拓展了这一观点，该社区是一个针对饮食失调者的在线社区。为探究这个社区如何利用既匿名又公开的网络环境，我将戈夫曼关于身份表演和污名的观点与关于边界维持的最新理论相结合。对“亲厌食症”博主的深度访谈表明，为了保护这个虚拟群体并抵制与他们的疾病以及网络形象相关的污名，他们在网络领域构建了自己的规范和规则，并对被视为群体外的成员进行约束和驱逐。
