Lisa Hammond, "Cultural Perceptions of Breastfeeding Online: Support, Community, Judgements" (2016)

Title

Lisa Hammond, "Cultural Perceptions of Breastfeeding Online: Support, Community, Judgements" (2016)

Subject

Breastfeeding
Participatory culture
Motherhood
Maternity
Media studies
Women
Gender roles
Gender studies
Womens' studies

Description

As women seek information about their breastfeeding choices online, they encounter a wide range of messages about breastfeeding that influence their decisions in multiple ways. In addition to the tenor of the information they seek, though, they are also influenced by the community spaces that are often part of these websites. This presentation analyzes the language and assumptions in breastfeeding websites and in the postings of the women who participate in those community spaces to study how the Internet affects women’s choices to breastfeed or not.

Rights

Creative Commons License
Cultural Perceptions of Breastfeeding Online: Support, Community, Judgements by Lisa Hammond is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Format

.PDF

Title

Cultural Perceptions of Breastfeeding Online: Support, Community, Judgements

Author

Lisa Hammond, Ph.D.

Date (Month, Year)

March 2016

Conference Name

University of South Carolina’s Eighteenth Annual Women’s Studies Conference

Location (City, State; City, Country)

Columbia, South Carolina

Related (Published) Article DOI

Related (Published) Article Title

Work It out with Your Wife”: Gendered Expectations and Parenting Rhetoric Online

Related (Published) Article URL

USCL Department Affiliation

Humanities