@inproceedings{2b9317949ee748529dc7ab4bd8af2660,
title = "Everyday experiences: Small stories and mental illness on Instagram",
abstract = "Despite historical precedence and modern prevalence, mental illness and associated disorders are frequently aligned with notions of deviance and, by association, abnormality. The view that mental illness deviates from an implicit social norm permeates the CHI community, impacting how scholars approach research in this space. In this paper, we challenge community and societal norms aligning mental illness with deviance. We combine semi-structured interviews with digital ethnography of public Instagram accounts to examine how Instagram users express mental illness. Drawing on small stories research, we find that individuals situate mental illness within their everyday lives and negotiate their tellings of experience due to the influence of various social control structures. We discuss implications for incorporating {\textquoteleft}the everyday{\textquoteright} into the design of technological solutions for marginalized communities and the ways in which researchers and designers may inadvertently perpetuate and instantiate stigma related to mental illness.",
keywords = "Instagram, Mental illness, Small stories research, Social control, Social media",
author = "Feuston, {Jessica L.} and Piper, {Anne Marie}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 ; Conference date: 04-05-2019 Through 09-05-2019",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1145/3290605.3300495",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}
