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Social Science Information 51, 1 (2012) 121-139

Ten years of Ana. Lessons from a transdisciplinary body of literature on online pro-eating disorder websites

Antonio A. Casilli 1, 2, Paola Tubaro 3, 4, Pedro Araya 5

(03/2012)

This paper is an argumentative review of the scientific literature on online services advocating anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa ('pro-ana' and 'pro-mia') of the last decade. The main question is whether these studies reproduce the traditional divide in the study of eating disorders, between clinical and social science perspectives, with limited mutual exchanges. The article identifies a body of literature of which it investigates contents, methods, and approaches; it also analyzes the network of citations among them. On this basis, it argues that the scientific literature touching on pro-ana websites can be regarded as a single transdisciplinary body of knowledge. What's more, it shows that the literature on computer-mediated sociabilities centred on eating disorders displays different structural characteristics with respect to the traditional, non-Web-related research on eating disorders. In the latter, the social sciences have counterpointed the development of a health-sciences mainstream; in the former, instead, they have played a major role in defining the field, while the health sciences have followed suit.

1 :	Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information [Paris] (LTCI)
	Télécom ParisTech – CNRS : UMR5141
2 :	Centre Edgar Morin/Equipe IIAC (CEM-IIAC)
	École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] – CNRS : UMR8177
3 :	Department of International Business and Economics
	University of Greenwich
4 :	Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CMH)
	CNRS : UMR8097 – Université de Caen Basse-Normandie – Ecole normale supérieure de Paris - ENS Paris – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS]
5 :	Anthropologie de l'Ecriture/Equipe IIAC
	École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] – CNRS : UMR8177

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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

Mots Clés : anorexia – bulimia – internet – nutrition – technology in healthcare

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