Zoë C Meleo-Erwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1210171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoë C Meleo-Erwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoë C |
| FAMILY NAME | Meleo-Erwin |
| SIGNATURE | MELEO-ERWIN Z C |
| AFFILIATIONS | William Paterson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3099-1266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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A global pandemic in the time of viral memes: Covid-19 vaccine misinformation and disinformation on TikTok
Misinformation and disinformation regarding COVID-19 and vaccination against it may be contributing to vaccine hesitancy. Social media outlets have reportedly made efforts to limit false information yet untruths related to COVID-19 persist online. The purpose of this study was to describe the content on COVID-19 vaccination on TikTok, an emerging social media platform. One-hundred trending videos were identified from the hashtag #covidvaccine and…
A Thematic Analysis of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) YouTube Videos
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an encouraging approach to HIV prevention, yet there is a paucity of research aimed at understanding individual PrEP experiences. The current study aims to examine first-hand narratives of individuals detailing their PrEP experiences via the YouTube platform. We searched YouTube.com using the keywords, "pre-exposure prophylaxis" and "Truvada". Search results were limited to the 15 most-viewed videos. Informed by…
Bariatric Biosociality: Pushed Together, Pulled Apart
This article explores the postoperative experiences of weight loss surgery patients. More specifically, it investigates why bariatric patients seek out and form connection to similarly situated others in online and in-person support forums. Based on a thematic analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews with individuals who have had bariatric surgery, it is argued that the experience of having been medically classified as obese or severely obese, a…
No one is as invested in your continued good health as you should be: An Exploration of the Post-Surgical Relationships Between Weight-Loss Surgery Patients and Their Home Bariatric Clinics
This article traces the post-surgical relationship between weight-loss surgery (WLS) patients and their home bariatric clinics. Following surgery, there is substantive drop off in patient attendance at both follow-up appointments and support groups. While barriers to follow-up are often discussed with the bariatric literature, patients themselves are typically defined as the problem. Based upon a thematic analysis of 217 blog posts and comments i…
Disrupting normal: Toward the ‘ordinary and familiar’ in fat politics
As a nascent movement, fat activism must look critically at the tactics and strategies it chooses precisely because the movement is helping to produce ‘Fat’ as a mode of subjectification and identification. I argue that the desire of some fat activists to bring fatness under the banner of ‘normal,’ particularly through attempts to link certain forms of fatness and health, is a losing battle. Further, this strategy may lead to an ethic of assimila…
A beautiful show of strength: Weight loss and the fat activist self
This article explores the disciplinary and productive effects of late 20th-century/early 21st-century discourse around the obesity epidemic. For my purposes, both the Fat Activist and Weight Loss Surgery patient may be seen as outcomes of this discursive proliferation. Based on a content analysis of two online accounts of weight loss by prominent fat activists, I examine the ways in which such public declarations can be seen as contemporary examp…
Fat Bodies, Qualitative Research and the Spirit of Participatory Action Research
Participatory Action Research (PAR) may be conceived of as a politic or an epistemology rather than a rigid methodology. If this is the case, how can PAR inform other qualitative methodologies? How can qualitative researchers adopt the spirit of PAR without doing PAR work itself? In this work, I seek to explore these questions by reviewing how PAR can guide my future dissertation work on the productive effects of the obesity epidemic. I examine h…
A beautiful show of strength: Weight loss and the fat activist self
This article explores the disciplinary and productive effects of late 20th-century/early 21st-century discourse around the obesity epidemic. For my purposes, both the Fat Activist and Weight Loss Surgery patient may be seen as outcomes of this discursive proliferation. Based on a content analysis of two online accounts of weight loss by prominent fat activists, I examine the ways in which such public declarations can be seen as contemporary examp…
Disrupting normal: Toward the ‘ordinary and familiar’ in fat politics
As a nascent movement, fat activism must look critically at the tactics and strategies it chooses precisely because the movement is helping to produce ‘Fat’ as a mode of subjectification and identification. I argue that the desire of some fat activists to bring fatness under the banner of ‘normal,’ particularly through attempts to link certain forms of fatness and health, is a losing battle. Further, this strategy may lead to an ethic of assimila…
No one is as invested in your continued good health as you should be: An Exploration of the Post-Surgical Relationships Between Weight-Loss Surgery Patients and Their Home Bariatric Clinics
This article traces the post-surgical relationship between weight-loss surgery (WLS) patients and their home bariatric clinics. Following surgery, there is substantive drop off in patient attendance at both follow-up appointments and support groups. While barriers to follow-up are often discussed with the bariatric literature, patients themselves are typically defined as the problem. Based upon a thematic analysis of 217 blog posts and comments i…
Bariatric Biosociality: Pushed Together, Pulled Apart
This article explores the postoperative experiences of weight loss surgery patients. More specifically, it investigates why bariatric patients seek out and form connection to similarly situated others in online and in-person support forums. Based on a thematic analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews with individuals who have had bariatric surgery, it is argued that the experience of having been medically classified as obese or severely obese, a…
A Thematic Analysis of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) YouTube Videos
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an encouraging approach to HIV prevention, yet there is a paucity of research aimed at understanding individual PrEP experiences. The current study aims to examine first-hand narratives of individuals detailing their PrEP experiences via the YouTube platform. We searched YouTube.com using the keywords, "pre-exposure prophylaxis" and "Truvada". Search results were limited to the 15 most-viewed videos. Informed by…
Fat Bodies, Qualitative Research and the Spirit of Participatory Action Research
Participatory Action Research (PAR) may be conceived of as a politic or an epistemology rather than a rigid methodology. If this is the case, how can PAR inform other qualitative methodologies? How can qualitative researchers adopt the spirit of PAR without doing PAR work itself? In this work, I seek to explore these questions by reviewing how PAR can guide my future dissertation work on the productive effects of the obesity epidemic. I examine h…
A beautiful show of strength: Weight loss and the fat activist self
This article explores the disciplinary and productive effects of late 20th-century/early 21st-century discourse around the obesity epidemic. For my purposes, both the Fat Activist and Weight Loss Surgery patient may be seen as outcomes of this discursive proliferation. Based on a content analysis of two online accounts of weight loss by prominent fat activists, I examine the ways in which such public declarations can be seen as contemporary examp…
Disrupting normal: Toward the ‘ordinary and familiar’ in fat politics
As a nascent movement, fat activism must look critically at the tactics and strategies it chooses precisely because the movement is helping to produce ‘Fat’ as a mode of subjectification and identification. I argue that the desire of some fat activists to bring fatness under the banner of ‘normal,’ particularly through attempts to link certain forms of fatness and health, is a losing battle. Further, this strategy may lead to an ethic of assimila…
No one is as invested in your continued good health as you should be: An Exploration of the Post-Surgical Relationships Between Weight-Loss Surgery Patients and Their Home Bariatric Clinics
This article traces the post-surgical relationship between weight-loss surgery (WLS) patients and their home bariatric clinics. Following surgery, there is substantive drop off in patient attendance at both follow-up appointments and support groups. While barriers to follow-up are often discussed with the bariatric literature, patients themselves are typically defined as the problem. Based upon a thematic analysis of 217 blog posts and comments i…
Bariatric Biosociality: Pushed Together, Pulled Apart
This article explores the postoperative experiences of weight loss surgery patients. More specifically, it investigates why bariatric patients seek out and form connection to similarly situated others in online and in-person support forums. Based on a thematic analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews with individuals who have had bariatric surgery, it is argued that the experience of having been medically classified as obese or severely obese, a…
A global pandemic in the time of viral memes: Covid-19 vaccine misinformation and disinformation on TikTok
Misinformation and disinformation regarding COVID-19 and vaccination against it may be contributing to vaccine hesitancy. Social media outlets have reportedly made efforts to limit false information yet untruths related to COVID-19 persist online. The purpose of this study was to describe the content on COVID-19 vaccination on TikTok, an emerging social media platform. One-hundred trending videos were identified from the hashtag #covidvaccine and…
A Thematic Analysis of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) YouTube Videos
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an encouraging approach to HIV prevention, yet there is a paucity of research aimed at understanding individual PrEP experiences. The current study aims to examine first-hand narratives of individuals detailing their PrEP experiences via the YouTube platform. We searched YouTube.com using the keywords, "pre-exposure prophylaxis" and "Truvada". Search results were limited to the 15 most-viewed videos. Informed by…
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