aimed to attract a more diverse audience of gamers and non-gamers – and to bring video games off the screen and into the living room. While not all games are well suited for multiplayer play – ‘It’s hard to avoid getting in each other’s way and impeding rather than advancing game progress’ (p. 133) – most games are intended to be played while in the room with other people. ‘The Wii is just the latest attempt by Nintendo to bring a version of this kind of social gaming into the living room, closer to arcade parties and karaoke than to, say, bouts of online multiplayer military simulations’ (p. 142). Jones and Thiruvathukal’s book is as much a user’s manual for the potential of the Nintendo Wii as it is an academic and technical deconstruction of the console as a computing platform. Their joint approach to considering the topic works well, but it isn’t until the very end of the book that Jones’ cultural contextual approach really shines. In the final six pages of the sixth chapter (pp. 143–148), the authors consider the paratext of the Wii, as well as the diegetic and nondiegetic elements of video games – and the various layers of the platform and the games, interactions and activities it supports. ‘This social layer of a video game platform is an essential part of what the system means, because it’s the environment in which the platform gets used’ (p. 148). Much of the existing literature on Nintendo – such as Osamu Inoue’s (2010) Nintendo Magic: Winning the Videogame Wars and Jeff Ryan’s (2011) Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America – concentrates on the company’s success as a business. The more technical literature to date focuses on the use of the Wii Balance Board, another controller for the platform, in healthcare and therapeutic settings. This text sits comfortably in the middle, Wiimote and Nunchuk controllers in hand, making a valuable contribution to the study of the Nintendo Wii and how technology and culture work together.

It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

Handbook of Visual Analysis. Theo van Leeuwen and Carey Jewitt, eds. London, England: Sage Publications, 2001. 210 pp. $27.95 pbk. Martin Lister and Liz Wells make a compelling case for the importance of visual research: "With the late twentieth century's explosion of imaging and visualizing techniques (digitization, satellite imaging, new forms of medical imaging, virtual reality, etc.) . . . everyday life has become 'visual culture.' This can be seen as an acceleration of a longer history involving photography, film, television and video. [Some also argue] that the study of visual culture can not be confined to the study of images, but should also take account of the centrality of vision in everyday experience and the production of meaning." It is frustrating and challenging that such an important dimension of human communication is so ubiquitous yet so poorly understood. Part of the reason for our skimpy knowledge of visual communication is a proliferation of theorizing about visual communication at the same time that a mismatched welter of methods are being employed-empirical and critical, objective and subjective, focused and hit-miss, controlled and uncontrolled-to assess content, communicator motivations, viewer perceptions and effects, and societal embeddedness. This handbook seeks to provide an overview of available approaches and an explication of how they may be used to advance knowledge and understanding in the selected area. This book, written by leading internationally recognized scholars and practitioners of their perspectives, makes a good stab at those ambitious goals. In addition to Lister and Wells' chapter on cultural studies, the book also features overviews by Philip Bell on content analysis, Malcolm Collier on visual anthropology, van Leeuwen on semiotics and iconography, Gertraud Diem-Wille on therapeutic psychoanalytic use of drawings, Carey Jewitt and Rumiko Oyama on social semiotics, Charles Goodwin on ethnomethodology, and Rick Iedema's social semiotic analysis of a documentary film. The content analysis chapter is an excellent overview of a dominant method employed in visual analysis. A comparison of the first twenty with the last twenty covers of Cleo magazine walks the reader through the basic steps. Visual anthropology, which combines art and science in its analysis approach, is explicated in a very readable chapter, drawing on longitudinal photographic studies dating back to the 1930s of Navajo, Pueblo, and Hispanic populations in the American Southwest, as well as a San Franciscan Chinatown photo map. Lister and Wells' chapter on cultural studies provides a lot of dense verbiage as underbrush to be hacked through, but the towering treetops above are worth the trail through the terminology. I disagreed with their characterization of several photographs, but cultural differences may be at work here, since the British authors interpret photographs made by several nationalities. The chapter on semiotics and iconography contains clear, straightforward prose that nicely illustrates the complicated writings of others, particularly Roland Barthes (visual semiotics) and Erwin Panofsky (iconography). …

Handbook of Visual Analysis

Instagram and WhatsApp are two social media and networking services introduced in 2010. They are currently subsidiaries of Facebook, Inc., California, USA. Using evidence from the published literature and case reports indexed in PubMed and other sources, we present an overview of the various applications of Instagram and WhatsApp in health and healthcare. We also briefly describe the main issues surrounding the uses of these two apps in health and medicine.

Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview

Young people are increasingly turning to social media for health-related information in areas such as physical activity, diet/nutrition and body image. Yet, there are few robust empirical accounts ...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13573322.2017.1423464

Young people and their engagement with health-related social media: new perspectives

The use of social media in nutrition interventions for adolescents and young adults-A systematic review.

Adolescents' presentation of food in social media: An explorative study.

Swedish mental health-care services are experiencing a critical shortage of nursing personnel. Researchers suggest that this shortage is due to low levels of job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is frequently studied with the assistance of Herzberg's two-factor theory, and this theory has foremost been explored with studies using quantitative methods. The purpose of the present study was to provide a better understanding of Herzberg's theory in relation to job satisfaction among Swedish mental health nursing personnel within inpatient psychiatric care while using qualitative methodology. This explorative study was based on semistructured interviews with 25 nursing personnel. Qualitative content analysis of interview transcripts identified three main categories: (i) respondents' perception of their work duties, which was perceived as important, meaningful, and demanding; (ii) respondents' relations with colleagues and supervisors, which provided valuable support in everyday work; and (iii) the way the respondents experienced their professional role as mental health nurses, which was described as unclear and vague. Job satisfaction primarily stemmed from working for patients and with other professionals, but their perceived limited progression of responsibilities discouraged a career in the profession. Herzberg's theory proved useful in exploring job satisfaction in this setting, but the findings partly contradict the basic tenets of the theory. Career advancements and incentives, such as salary and compensation, were perceived as lacking, which negatively influenced job satisfaction. Ward managers should establish clinical ladder programmes to recognize and motivate the continuing professional development of nurses. This needs to be coupled with monetary incentives, and linked with increased clinical authority.

Job satisfaction among Swedish mental health nursing personnel: Revisiting the two-factor theory.

This study aimed to explore experiences with online information regarding food, weight management, and health in a group of adolescents in treatment for obesity. Individual semi-structured interviews with 20 adolescents were conducted. Participants used a screen-recorded laptop to demonstrate their search procedures and online information sources. The transcribed interviews were categorized using qualitative content analysis. The adolescents described both encouraging and discouraging experiences. On one hand, they said that online forums could provide nutritious meal ideas and inspiration as well as social support for behavior change. On the other hand, they mentioned that there was a confusing amount of misleading commercial content online and also experiences of peer-facilitated food marketing in online networks. An overarching theme was generated: social media might be a resource for health inspiration, health information, and social support, but requires awareness and competencies. Implications for clinical practice are discussed in light of these findings.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1460458218759699

Health literacy in a complex digital media landscape: Pediatric obesity patients' experiences with online weight, food, and health information.

There is limited amount of empirical studies concerning job satisfaction in inpatient psychiatric care. However, job satisfaction has several implications on public administration and management. The objective of this study is to identify factors having positive impact on job satisfaction among Swedish psychiatric nursing staff in an inpatient psychiatric clinic. The cross-sectional study is based on Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory. The survey was distributed among nursing staff at a psychiatric university hospital clinic in Western Sweden. Overall, job satisfaction was rated relatively high, and salary was rated the lowest of all factors investigated. Unlike the premises in Herzberg’s theory, salary showed a positive correlation with job satisfaction and not only in preventing dissatisfaction. Hospital managers must be attentive to salary levels and staff turnover. Psychiatric nursing personnel in Sweden lack competitive salaries, and hospital administrators should encourage nursing staff to...

Job Satisfaction Among Swedish Mental Health Nursing Staff: A Cross-Sectional Survey

The low-carb high fat LCHF diet, a buzz diet in Sweden, is stirring dogmatic conflict between dieters and representatives from the National Food Agency NFA, even gaining international reputation. After gathering materials from social media and press reports covering the popular diet, a thematic analysis has been conducted. The aim of this study was to investigate how three non-conventional experts and influential promoters of the LCHF movement transact their criticisms of current nutrition authorities, and how they utilize social media for their purpose. The diet has been highly politicized, creating distrust against the established scientific community. Findings indicate that events on the national level led to an increased public awareness of the LCHF diet, providing the supporters with invaluable opportunities to criticize the established nutritional community. This enabled certain prominent advocates of the diet to gain momentum while using features of social media to further the diet's believability.

Christopher Holmberg

Papers

Adolescents' presentation of food in social media: An explorative study.

Job satisfaction among Swedish mental health nursing personnel: Revisiting the two-factor theory.

Health literacy in a complex digital media landscape: Pediatric obesity patients' experiences with online weight, food, and health information.

Job Satisfaction Among Swedish Mental Health Nursing Staff: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Politicization of the Low-Carb High-Fat Diet in Sweden, Promoted On Social Media by Non-Conventional Experts