Discurso, representação e identidade: depoimentos de garotas com transtornos alimentares em redes sociais

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Rubin, Carolina Bithencourt
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: ACD; Transtornos alimentares; Identidades e rede social do Orkut
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/3291

The present study is an investigation on the discourse by women with eating disorders, who took part in the forum “DESABAFOS AQUI” from the community “Anorexia e Bulimia – Ajuda” in the Orkut. Based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and on the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) I examined how these young women represent their identities, the dominant body model, and how they identified themselves and how the interact with one another. To make such an analysis I collected forty-four posts available in the Orkut, at the virtual community “Anorexia e Bulimia – Ajuda”, in the forum “DESABAFOS-AQUI”, from March 2009 through March 2011. In the consumer society in which we live the body is considered beautiful when it is slender, praised by the media as a synonym of beauty, happiness and success. Eating disorders are multifactorial disorders that are due to individual, family and hereditary factors, and especially sociocultural factors, which are the focus in this research. Orkut was created with the goal of helping its members to know people and to keep relationships through virtual communities that assemble around common interests. In the case of the “Anorexia e Bulimia – Ajuda”, the community includes those women with eating disorders (or those curious about the issue) who wish to discuss that subject. The present analysis indicates that the body model presented as beautiful and perfect by the young participants in that virtual community at Orkut is skinny, and the posts produced by them reproduce and reinforce the ‘need’ to discipline the body and to keep getting thinner and thinner