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
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
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
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
USCL Department Affiliation
Humanities