#selfharn on Instagram: understanding online communities surrounding non-suicidal self-injury through conversations and common properties among authors

摘要

#selfharm has been blocked by Instagram, but manoeuvring hashtags (e.g. #selfharn) are beginning to appear in order for secret non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) communities to communicate. The purpose of this study was to (a) determine the nature of the #selfharn conversation on Instagram, (b) analyze common properties of the visual content (i.e. images and videos;  = 93) tagged with #selfharn, and (c) discover what kind of environment the authors (  = 50) of #selfharn were creating.