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Table 3 Frequencies of content analysis relations to the image representations

From: They need to see breastfeeding so that they know how to do it”: the construction of motherhood through Instagram brelfies

Content Analysis Categories

Categories in the Data Set

Type of BF Image Representation

  

Frequency

Portrait

Selfie

Baby portrait

Image Representation

Breastfeeding Portrait

68 (34.17%)

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–-

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Breastfeeding Selfie

70 (35.17%)

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–-

–-

Breastfeeding Baby Portrait

61 (30.65%)

–-

–-

–-

Total

199

–-

–-

–-

Focus

Mother

60 (30.15%)

27 (39.71%)

33 (47.14%)

0 (0%)

Baby

77 (38.69%)

5 (7.35%)

12 (17.14%)

60 (98.36%)

Equal

62 (31.15%)

36 (52.94%)

25 (35.71%)

1 (1.64%)

Total

199

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–-

–-

Taken by self/other

Self

79 (39.69%)

1 (1.47%)

69 (98.57%)

9 (14.75%)

Other

73 (36.68%)

65 (95.59%)

1 (1.43%)

7 (11.48%)

Unclear

47 (23.61%)

2 (2.94%)

0 (0%)

45 (73.77%)

Total

199

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–-

–-

Tree of Life

Filter used

25 (12.56%)

1 (1.47%)

0 (0%)

24 (39.34%)

Filter not used

174 (87.43%)

67 (98.52%)

70 (100%)

37 (60.66%)

Total

199

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–-

–-

Location

Outside

22 (11.05%)

16 (23.53%)

6 (8.57%)

0 (0%)a

Inside

132 (66.33%)

50 (73.53%)

61 (87.14%)

21 (34.43%)a

Unclear

45 (22.61%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

45 (100%)

Total

199

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–-

–-

Public/private

Public

129 (64.82%)

44 (64.71%)

64 (91.43%)

21 (34.43%)a

Private

25 (12.56%)

22 (32.35%)

3 (4.29%)

0 (0%)a

Unclear

45 (22.61%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

45 (100%)

Total

199

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–-

–-

Face of mother

Absent

74 (37.18%)

5 (7.35%)

10 (14.29%)

59 (96.72%)

Present

125 (62.81%)

63 (96.92%)

60 (85.71%)

2 (3.28%)

Total

199

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–-

–-

Gaze

Looking at Baby

55 (27.64%)

44 (64.71%)

8 (11.43%)

3 (4.92%)a

Looking at Camera

60 (30.15%)

13 (19.11%)

47 (67.14%)

0 (0%)a

Looking Elsewhere

7 (3.52%)

0 (0%)

1(10%)

6 (90%)a

Total

122

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  1. aNote only variables used in the main analyses are reported, thus some percentages do not add up to 100%. The image representation variables that were not used in the main analyses are starred. Gaze category “looking elsewhere” does not include the photos with an absent mother’s face