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When Personal Tracking Becomes Social: Examining the Use of Instagram for Healthy Eating

Many people appropriate social media and online communities in their pursuit of personal health goals, such as healthy eating or increased physical activity. However, people struggle with impression management, and with reaching the right audiences when they share health information on these platfor...

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Autores principales: Chung, Chia-Fang, Agapie, Elena, Schroeder, Jessica, Mishra, Sonali, Fogarty, James, Munson, Sean A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5432132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28516174
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025747
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author Chung, Chia-Fang
Agapie, Elena
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Mishra, Sonali
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description Many people appropriate social media and online communities in their pursuit of personal health goals, such as healthy eating or increased physical activity. However, people struggle with impression management, and with reaching the right audiences when they share health information on these platforms. Instagram, a popular photo-based social media platform, has attracted many people who post and share their food photos. We aim to inform the design of tools to support healthy behaviors by understanding how people appropriate Instagram to track and share food data, the benefits they obtain from doing so, and the challenges they encounter. We interviewed 16 women who consistently record and share what they eat on Instagram. Participants tracked to support themselves and others in their pursuit of healthy eating goals. They sought social support for their own tracking and healthy behaviors and strove to provide that support for others. People adapted their personal tracking practices to better receive and give this support. Applying these results to the design of health tracking tools has the potential to help people better access social support.
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spelling pubmed-54321322017-05-15 When Personal Tracking Becomes Social: Examining the Use of Instagram for Healthy Eating Chung, Chia-Fang Agapie, Elena Schroeder, Jessica Mishra, Sonali Fogarty, James Munson, Sean A. Proc SIGCHI Conf Hum Factor Comput Syst Article Many people appropriate social media and online communities in their pursuit of personal health goals, such as healthy eating or increased physical activity. However, people struggle with impression management, and with reaching the right audiences when they share health information on these platforms. Instagram, a popular photo-based social media platform, has attracted many people who post and share their food photos. We aim to inform the design of tools to support healthy behaviors by understanding how people appropriate Instagram to track and share food data, the benefits they obtain from doing so, and the challenges they encounter. We interviewed 16 women who consistently record and share what they eat on Instagram. Participants tracked to support themselves and others in their pursuit of healthy eating goals. They sought social support for their own tracking and healthy behaviors and strove to provide that support for others. People adapted their personal tracking practices to better receive and give this support. Applying these results to the design of health tracking tools has the potential to help people better access social support. 2017-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5432132/ /pubmed/28516174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025747 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the authors) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.or (http://permissions@acm.org) .
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5432132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28516174
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