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Weight Stigma Goes Viral on the Internet: Systematic Assessment of YouTube Comments Attacking Overweight Men and Women

Weight Stigma Goes Viral on the Internet: Systematic Assessment of YouTube Comments Attacking Overweight Men and Women

Weight Stigma Goes Viral on the Internet: Systematic Assessment of YouTube Comments Attacking Overweight Men and Women

Yongwoog Andrew Jeon   1 , MA, MPhil ;   Brent Hale   2 , MA ;   Eric Knackmuhs   3 , PhD ;   Michael Mackert   1 , PhD

1 Doctoral Fellow for the Center for Health Communication, Moody College of Communication and Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States

2 The Media School, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States

3 School of Kinesiology, Recreation & Sport, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Yongwoog Andrew Jeon, MA, MPhil
  • Doctoral Fellow for the Center for Health Communication
  • Moody College of Communication and Dell Medical School
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • Austin, TX
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 8122233163
  • Email: yongwoog@utexas.edu