SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

This article reflects on the findings of the interdisciplinary TransForm project, which ran between 2,,2 and 2,,4 and aimed to explore how reading and writing digital fictions might support young women in developing frameworks for more positive thinking regarding their body image. Introduction This article reports the findings of the TransForm research programme which fused social science literary and media analysis to explore the possibilities of digital fictions as therapy through reading and/or writing using body image concerns as an exemplar focus. Most of the research on EW has focused on quantifiable measures of physical well-being such as doctors visits trends in school grades and changes in employment status as well as specific applications in clinical populations such as cancer patients and people with mood disorders. Furthermore in most cases participants found it difficult to relate to the female protagonists either because their lives were seen to be too remote from their own ; because of the multilinearity and perceived lack of closure of the text confirming findings of previous empirical hypertext reading studies ; or because of the bizarre depressing and often obscene ways in which typical childhood or Table. Appendix is an outline of the full two-week module including the topics and goals of each session activities and homework.