Kroppsidealer i norske trenings- og kostholdsblogger

Body ideals in Norwegian exercise- and diet blogs This article describes the body ideal promoted in a Norwegian exercise- and diet blog community and how bloggers relate to it. Using a critical discursive approach, analysis of three weeks of entries from eight selected blogs of young women reveale...

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Main Author: Janne Wiken Halvorsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitetsforlaget 2015-01-01
Series:Norsk Medietidsskrift
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Online Access:https://www.idunn.no/nmt/2015/02/kroppsidealer_i_norske_trenings-_og_kostholdsblogger
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description Body ideals in Norwegian exercise- and diet blogs This article describes the body ideal promoted in a Norwegian exercise- and diet blog community and how bloggers relate to it. Using a critical discursive approach, analysis of three weeks of entries from eight selected blogs of young women revealed that the blog community’s body ideals and body practices are influenced by a fitness culture. These blogs, however, divulge the downsides of the body project, describing a lifestyle of strict body regimes and the ambivalent feelings that arise in pursuit of the perfect body.
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spellingShingle Janne Wiken Halvorsen
Kroppsidealer i norske trenings- og kostholdsblogger
Norsk Medietidsskrift
Body image
Blogging
Fitness
Body regimes
Bodyimage
Bodyregimes
title Kroppsidealer i norske trenings- og kostholdsblogger
title_full Kroppsidealer i norske trenings- og kostholdsblogger
title_fullStr Kroppsidealer i norske trenings- og kostholdsblogger
title_full_unstemmed Kroppsidealer i norske trenings- og kostholdsblogger
title_short Kroppsidealer i norske trenings- og kostholdsblogger
title_sort kroppsidealer i norske trenings og kostholdsblogger
topic Body image
Blogging
Fitness
Body regimes
Bodyimage
Bodyregimes
url https://www.idunn.no/nmt/2015/02/kroppsidealer_i_norske_trenings-_og_kostholdsblogger
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