1st Edition
The Aesthetics of Self-Harm The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities
By Zoe Alderton
Copyright 2018
224 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
20 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
20 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Aesthetics of Self-Harm presents a new approach to understanding parasuicidal behaviour, based upon an examination of online communities that promote performances of self-harm in the pursuit of an idealised beauty. The book considers how online communities provide a significant level of support for self-harmers and focuses on relevant case studies to establish a new model for the... Read more
Preface
1. Self-Harm on Social Networks: Understanding Online Eating Disorder and Self-Harm Communities
2. The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: Visual Rhetoric as a Key to Understanding Online Activities
3. Sad Girls: The Internet and the Performance of Mood
4. Suggestions for Clinical Practitioners: New Tools for Managing Visually Oriented Self-Harmers
5. Healing Through Aesthetics: How Images Can Guide Behaviour and Health
Biography
Zoe Alderton is a lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney.
