Discourse about health that focuses predominantly on body weight is referred to as the
weight-centered health paradigm (WCHP). In recent years, there has been a significant …

Much of the science communication and journalism studies literature continues to reiterate
the same critiques about science journalism. This literature accuses science journalists of …

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing
discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact …

In this introduction to the special issue on digital media and body weight, the author brings
together fat studies and critical social analyses of digital media to discuss the manifold ways …

A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a
proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and …

The efficacy of triangulation has ensured that it is still used today. For example, land
surveyors use distance from and direction to two landmarks in order to elicit bearings on the …

Risk professionals and scholars have long recognised the media as a key player in the
social construction of risk. Many investigations into the frames journalists use when covering …

'Today nearly 70% of Australians have overweight or obesity; and yet most of us will opt to
remain silent on the topic and how it affects us, because of shame and embarrassment.' …

Obesity has become a mainstay of media in all its forms and sociologists and others have
increasingly sought to understand what reporting on obesity can tell us about the …

News reporting, in channels such as broadcast and print media, on obesity as an issue has
increased dramatically in the last decade. A qualitative study, in which we used in-depth …