Information creation on online drug forums: How drug use becomes moral on the margins of science

被引:10
|
作者
Duxbury, Scott William [1 ]
机构
[1] Ohio State Univ, Sociol, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
关键词
Citizen science; knowledge production; legal highs; netnography; online drug communities; Drogues legales; sciences citoyennes; production de savoir; communaute virtuelle des amateurs de drogue; methode netnographique; Legalidad; ciencia ciudadana; produccion de conocimiento; comunidades de drogas en linea; netnografia; LEGAL HIGHS; CITIZEN SCIENCE; WEB SITES; INTERNET; HEALTH; NETNOGRAPHY; COMMUNITIES; TECHNOLOGIES; CULTURES; QUALITY;
D O I
10.1177/0011392115596055
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
Potential users of grey-market substances seek out internet drug websites to gather legal high information. However, where previous researchers have investigated drug wikis as sources of drug information, few have looked into the drug forums where an abundance of legal-high information is created. Knowledge is produced on internet drug forums through social processes of drug information sharing and relating personal experiences. These knowledge production efforts are a response to internet drug forum members' perceived need to objectively understand a drug's behavior. This community perspective, therefore, shapes online drug forum information sharing into a marginal form of citizen science - one that does not incorporate scientist oversight or directly engage with institutional science. The article argues that drug use becomes a social ritual whereby the sharing of drug information is an ethical practice. Additionally, because first-hand experience is needed to create drug information on new substances, a moral undertone is imposed onto drug experimentation. Resume Les consommateurs potentiels de substances chimiques disponibles sur le marche gris s'efforcent de collecter des informations sur les drogues legales en consultant des sites Web consacres aux drogues. Des recherches precedentes se sont deja penchees sur les wikis specialises dans les drogues, mais peu d'etudes ont ete consacrees aux forums qui proposent une abondante information sur les drogues legales. Dans ces espaces de discussions publiques, l'acquisition de la connaissance se fait par des processus sociaux de partage d'informations et d'experiences personnelles. Cette production de savoirs repond aux besoins des membres du forum d'une comprehension objective des effets des drogues. Cette demande communautaire donne naissance a une forme marginale de science citoyenne sans aucune supervision scientifique ni lien direct avec la science institutionnelle. Cet article suggere que l'usage de la drogue devient alors un rituel social et que le partage d'informations sur les drogues constitue une pratique ethique. La necessite de proceder a des experiences directes pour collecter des informations sur les nouvelles drogues impose alors une certaine discretion morale a l'egard de ces experimentations. Resumen Los usuarios potenciales de las sustancias del mercado gris buscan sitios web sobre droga para recopilar informacion altamente legal. Sin embargo, cuando los investigadores anteriores han analizados los wikis de drogas como fuentes de informacion sobre drogas, pocos han mirado a los foros de drogas donde se crea una abundancia de informacion altamente legal. El conocimiento se produce en los foros de internet de drogas a traves de procesos sociales de intercambio de informacion sobre drogas en relacion con experiencias personales. Estos esfuerzos de produccion de conocimiento son una respuesta a la necesidad percibida por los miembros del foro de drogas en internet para comprender objetivamente el comportamiento de un medicamento. Esta perspectiva de la comunidad, por lo tanto, da forma al foro en linea de medicamentos al compartir una forma marginal de la ciencia ciudadana, que no incorpora la supervision cientifica, ni se compromete directamente con la ciencia institucional. Sostengo que el consumo de drogas se convierte en un ritual social mediante el cual el intercambio de informacion sobre las drogas es una practica etica. Ademas, dado que se necesita experiencia de primera mano para crear informacion sobre las nuevas sustancias, se impone un tono moral en la experimentacion con drogas.
引用
收藏
页码:431 / 448
页数:18
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [1] Online Disclosure of Illicit Information: Information Behaviors in Two Drug Forums
    Costello, Kaitlin L.
    Martin, John D., III
    Brinegar, Ashlee Edwards
    [J]. JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2017, 68 (10) : 2439 - 2448
  • [2] Assessing the Validity of Online Drug Forums as a Source for Estimating Demographic and Temporal Trends in Drug Use
    Paul, Michael J.
    Chisolm, Margaret S.
    Johnson, Matthew W.
    Vandrey, Ryan G.
    Dredze, Mark
    [J]. JOURNAL OF ADDICTION MEDICINE, 2016, 10 (05) : 324 - 330
  • [3] Information Sharing and Knowledge Creation in Online Forums: The Case of the Greek Online Forum 'DIALOGOI'
    Chalkiti, Kalotina
    Sigala, Marianna
    [J]. CURRENT ISSUES IN TOURISM, 2008, 11 (05) : 381 - 406
  • [4] Evidence of the emergence of illicit benzodiazepines from online drug forums
    Sarker, Abeed
    Al-Garadi, Mohammed Ali
    Ge, Yao
    Nataraj, Nisha
    McGlone, Londell
    Jones, Christopher M.
    Sumner, Steven A.
    [J]. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 2022, 32 (06): : 939 - 941
  • [5] Understanding the interactions of online drug senders on cryptomarket discussion forums
    Paquet-Clouston, Masarah
    Autixier, Cateline
    Decary-Hetu, David
    [J]. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, 2018, 60 (04) : 455 - 477
  • [6] Online drug information platform for the public in Hong Kong-Review of local drug information use and needs
    Cheng, F. W. T.
    So, S. W. K.
    Fung, B. W. T.
    Hung, W. H.
    Lee, V. W. Y.
    [J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS, 2018, 114 : 27 - 34
  • [7] Online Drug Information System
    Mutafov, C
    [J]. HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: WHAT STRATEGIES?, 1997, : 214 - 214
  • [8] Veterinary drug information online
    不详
    [J]. JOURNAL OF EQUINE VETERINARY SCIENCE, 2003, 23 (12) : 537 - 537
  • [9] How to use medical and drug information? The view of integrated information handling
    Toyotama, Hayato
    [J]. YAKUGAKU ZASSHI-JOURNAL OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 2008, 128 (06): : 859 - 866
  • [10] Complex Calculations: How Drug Use During Pregnancy Becomes a Barrier to Prenatal Care
    Sarah C. M. Roberts
    Cheri Pies
    [J]. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2011, 15 : 333 - 341