@article{ref1,
title="The rise and fall of 'girlsdrinkdiaries.com': Dilemmas and opportunities when creating online forums to investigate health behaviour",
journal="Health and place",
year="2014",
author="Stepney, Melissa",
volume="27C",
number="",
pages="51-58",
abstract="This paper explores the potential dilemmas and opportunities for setting up online discussion forums when undertaking research on health-related behaviour. It draws on the setting up of a website called 'girlsdrinkdiaries.com' which sought to understand young women's relationship(s) with alcohol and their feelings about drinking and drunkenness. I reflect on how the use of virtual space may allow for more liberated and 'free' talk about sensitive topics in health, yet at the same time may create a voyeuristic and potentially abusive environment. In doing so, I explore the ultimate demise of the website and therefore the potential problems of utilising online methods. I suggest that researchers need to carefully mitigate and negotiate harm when considering such methods, whilst also acknowledging how participants themselves resist and negotiate risk in virtual places.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8292",
doi="10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.01.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.01.001"
}