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Adler, P.A. and Adler, P. (2008) ‘The Cyber Worlds of self-injurers: Deviant communities, relationships, and selves’, Symbolic Interaction, 31(1), pp. 33–56. doi:10.1525/si.2008.31.1.33.

Berlant, L.G. (2022) On the inconvenience of other people. Durham: Duke University Press.

Bridle, J. (2023) Ways of being: animals, plants, machines: the search for a planetary intelligence. New York: Picador.

Campbell, H. (2005) ‘Considering spiritual dimensions within computer-mediated communication studies’, New Media & Society, 7(1), pp. 110–134. doi:10.1177/1461444805049147.

Chile, L.M. (2004) ‘Spirituality and community development: Exploring the link between the individual and the collective’, Community Development Journal, 39(4), pp. 318–331. doi:10.1093/cdj/bsh029.

Delgado, C. (2005) ‘A discussion of the concept of spirituality’, Nursing Science Quarterly, 18(2), pp. 157–162. doi:10.1177/0894318405274828.

Fisher, J. (2017) Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors: Overcoming internal self-alienation. New York, New York: Routledge.

Gonzales, A.L. (2015) ‘Disadvantaged minorities’ use of the internet to expand their social networks’, Communication Research, 44(4), pp. 467–486. doi:10.1177/0093650214565925.

Haraway, D. (1985) ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’, Socialist Review (US), pp. 209–240. doi:10.4324/9780203093917-25.

The Government Lab (2020) The power of virtual communities, The GovLab. Available at: https://virtual-communities.thegovlab.org/ (Accessed: 28 September 2023).

Mesch, G.S. (2011) ‘Minority status and the use of computer-mediated communication’, Communication Research, 39(3), pp. 317–337. doi:10.1177/0093650211398865.

Smith, N., Wickes, R. and Underwood, M. (2013) ‘Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities’, Journal of Sociology, 51(4), pp. 950–967. doi:10.1177/1440783313486220.

Annotated Bibliography

STEP TWO: VERY SHORT bibliography NO MORE THAN THREE KEY TEXTS. Write a very brief (two sentence) outline of the key texts in your bibliography and discuss how they will relate to your thesis). This will be the start of an annotated bibliography.

( 1 ). Smith, N., Wickes, R. and Underwood, M. (2013) ‘Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities’, Journal of Sociology, 51(4), pp. 950–967. doi:10.1177/1440783313486220.

- This study examines how members of pro-anorexia and fat acceptance online communities manage socially marginalised offline identities online. It found that these communities provide an anonymised space for identity work, emotional support and self-acceptance. Both the mode of addressing "deviant" identities with care and respect and the theme of the study are important for my thesis. I want to dig deeper in a different way in what these communities give marginalised people and focus on the platforms themselves.

( 2 ) Campbell, H. (2005) ‘Considering spiritual dimensions within computer-mediated communication studies’, New Media & Society, 7(1), pp. 110–134. doi:10.1177/1461444805049147.

- This study proposes a new framework of the internet as a sacramental space for spiritual pursuits, a place that can be experienced as sacred dimension. My thesis builds on this idea to conceptualise a Sacramental Web where healing is possible through transcendence of the physical body, imagining oneself as part of a bigger whole and finding support in a dis-embodied community.

( 3 ) Fisher, J. (2017) Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors: Overcoming internal self-alienation. New York, New York: Routledge.

- This is a book about the neurobiology and psychology of fragmentation as a consequence of trauma. It describes a path to healing and becoming whole through acknowledgement and compassion for all our parts. In my thesis I explore how online presence can aid this process.

Notes

• ways of being by James Bridle
  • Life did not take over the world by combat but by networking
  • Endosymbiosis is a framework, the absorption of one by another
  • one little community of organism scaling up to the human body
  • no life in isolation
  • Life is soupy, mixed up