Male Depression and the Internet.
Interview Schedule.
Interviews conducted during the course of the research will be informal and free flowing. Questions asked will be based on those raised during the research. Several initial questions I will discuss with participants are as follows:
• How did you initially discover the online forum?
• What do you use the forum for?
• How often do you access it?
• What use do you get out of it?
• Do you consider the forum a community for depressed persons?
• Has the forum changed your life at all?
• If a participant receives ‘off-line’ aid, how does the forum assist or compare to this?
• How long have you been a member?
• Have you made close friends/associations with others on the forum?
• Do you use any other similar forums?
The answers to these questions may also be found from informal chatting. I have decided to keep interviews informal as it opens up the possibility to hear something related to the research that I may not have otherwise thought of.
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Chapter image description and bibliography
Chapter One: ‘untiled depression medication image’
www.cybersluagh.com : Online individuals Blog (Web-log) site. Chapter Two: ‘Silhouette of depressed individual’
www.doktoranden-netz.de : Online Networking community for graduate students.
Chapter Three: ‘Modelisation d’un visage’. Image by Rebecca Allen.
Popper. Frank (1993) Art of the Electronic Age, Thames and Hudson, Singapore.
Chapter Four: ‘Human face splintered as in a broken mirror’. Painted by Gino Severini. Clay. Jean (1978) From Impressionism to Modern Art, Chartwell Books Inc, New Jersey.
Chapter Five: ‘an explicit form of virtual reality’. Photo by P Berenger. Popper. Frank (1993) Art of the Electronic Age, Thames and Hudson, Singapore.
Chapter Six: ‘The Cry’. Painted by Edvard Munch.
Clay. Jean (1978) From Impressionism to Modern Art, Chartwell Books Inc, New Jersey.