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Unga kvinnor med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning – erfarenheter av självpresentationer på internet: Young women with intellectual disability: Experiences of self-presentations on the Internet

Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022, Vol.29 (1), p.91 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

ISSN: 1104-1420

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    Unga kvinnor med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning – erfarenheter av självpresentationer på internet: Young women with intellectual disability: Experiences of self-presentations on the Internet
  • Author: Borgström, Åsa
  • Subjects: Annan samhällsvetenskap ; Other Social Sciences
  • Is Part Of: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022, Vol.29 (1), p.91
  • Description: Recent research emphasizes how important it is for young people with intellectual disability to explore and express different social identities. A gender-neutral approach is still relatively common in social science, and there is a lack of studies on young women with intellectual disa-bility and identity formation in digital arenas. Thus, the overall aim is to study young women with intellectual disability and their experiences of presentation of the self on the Internet, more specifically, how the Internet and social media generate conditions for alternative identity con-structions and the way these are manifested. This study is based on interviews with young women with intellectual disability (n=17) aged 16–21. The interviews with the participants were carried out during 2017 and 2018 in various forms: individual interviews, pair-interviews and focus groups. The analysis was inspired by inter-pretative phenomenological analyses (IPA) and indicated four themes: being yourself; being cau-tious and avoiding showing your body; fake identity and beautifying; and when the image does not match. The results were interpreted in a framework of interactionism and highlighted negotiations at different levels and in various areas. The most salient were negotiations about risk and oppor-tunity, arenas online and offline, and normality and deviance. The results indicated that young women with intellectual disability appear to be in a field of tension between risk and opportunity. The Internet seems to offer them the opportunity to explore different identity expressions, though it can also be compared to a minefield in which they need to navigate between the risks. This leads to caution, which is relevant but can be experienced as inhibiting, and places great demands on those around them: parents and professionals. One way to approach this phenomenon is dialectic participation and positive risk taking.
  • Language: Swedish
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1104-1420
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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