TY - JOUR
T1 - “Listen to your body”
T2 - Participants’ alternative to science in online health discussions
AU - Versteeg, Wytske
AU - te Molder, Hedwig
AU - Sneijder, Petra
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - We present a discursive psychological analysis of how the idiomatic expression “Listen to Your Body” is deployed in online forum discussions about ADHD medication and aspartame. The Listen to Your Body device allows participants to demonstrate to others that they take their health seriously and for that reason avoid scientific knowledge. They contrast Listen to Your Body with “blindly following science,” presenting Listen to Your Body as the more critical and, therefore, more rational behavior. Instead of treating the idiomatic expression as “anyone’s knowledge,” speakers and recipients compete for the right to own it. It is discussed what these results mean for the role of and relation between experiential knowledge (“lay expertise”) and scientific expertise in online discussions about health issues.
AB - We present a discursive psychological analysis of how the idiomatic expression “Listen to Your Body” is deployed in online forum discussions about ADHD medication and aspartame. The Listen to Your Body device allows participants to demonstrate to others that they take their health seriously and for that reason avoid scientific knowledge. They contrast Listen to Your Body with “blindly following science,” presenting Listen to Your Body as the more critical and, therefore, more rational behavior. Instead of treating the idiomatic expression as “anyone’s knowledge,” speakers and recipients compete for the right to own it. It is discussed what these results mean for the role of and relation between experiential knowledge (“lay expertise”) and scientific expertise in online discussions about health issues.
KW - ADHD
KW - aspartame
KW - discursive psychology
KW - experiential knowledge
KW - online forums
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U2 - 10.1177/1363459317695632
DO - 10.1177/1363459317695632
M3 - Article
C2 - 28401812
AN - SCOPUS:85047935076
SN - 1363-4593
VL - 22
SP - 432
EP - 450
JO - Health (United Kingdom)
JF - Health (United Kingdom)
IS - 5
ER -