TY - JOUR

T1 - Exploring digital fiction as a tool for teenage body image bibliotherapy

AU - Ensslin, Astrid

AU - Skains, Rebecca

AU - Riley, Sarah

AU - Haran, Joan

AU - Mackiewicz, Alison

AU - Halliwell, Emma

N1 - 2016 Taylor & Francis. This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.

PY - 2016/8

Y1 - 2016/8

N2 - This article reflects on the findings of the interdisciplinary ‘TransForm’ project,which ran between 2012 and 2014 and aimed to explore how reading andwriting digital fictions (DFs) might support young women in developingframeworks for more positive thinking regarding their body image. Theproject comprised the following stages: (1) a review and compilation of DFsthematising and/or problematising female corporeality; (2) a series ofcooperative inquiries with 3 groups of young women (aged 16–19 years)over a period of 5 weeks, examining participants’ responses to a selection ofthe previously compiled DFs, as well as the challenges these young womenface in relation to body image and (3) an interventionist summer school inwhich participants aged 16–19 explored body image issues via writing DFs.This article reports on the main observations and findings of each stage, anddraws conclusions for future research needs in this area.

AB - This article reflects on the findings of the interdisciplinary ‘TransForm’ project,which ran between 2012 and 2014 and aimed to explore how reading andwriting digital fictions (DFs) might support young women in developingframeworks for more positive thinking regarding their body image. Theproject comprised the following stages: (1) a review and compilation of DFsthematising and/or problematising female corporeality; (2) a series ofcooperative inquiries with 3 groups of young women (aged 16–19 years)over a period of 5 weeks, examining participants’ responses to a selection ofthe previously compiled DFs, as well as the challenges these young womenface in relation to body image and (3) an interventionist summer school inwhich participants aged 16–19 explored body image issues via writing DFs.This article reports on the main observations and findings of each stage, anddraws conclusions for future research needs in this area.

KW - Digital fiction

KW - cooperative inquiry

KW - expressive writing

KW - bibliotherapy

KW - body image

U2 - 10.1080/14626268.2016.1210646

DO - 10.1080/14626268.2016.1210646

M3 - Article

VL - 27

SP - 177

EP - 195

JO - Digital Creativity

JF - Digital Creativity

SN - 1462-6268

IS - 3

ER -