Details

Subject(s)

• Communication in medicine [Browse]
• Self-help groups [Browse]
• Social media [Browse]

Editor

• Sekalala, Seif, 1985- [Browse]
• Niezgoda, Brandon C., 1988- [Browse]

Series

• Advances in healthcare information systems and administration (AHISA) book series. [More in this series]
• Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration (AHISA) Book Series, 2328-126X

Summary note

"This book presents research findings related to the dynamics of discussions, narratives, discourses, controversies, and news about illness, and pain & suffering as witnessed in a variety of patient populations--i.e. via age, race, specific disease etc. It also focuses on the experiences of caretakers, who necessarily share in the distress of patients"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

System details

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Section 1. Introduction: a theoretical and empirical overview of contemporary online health communities. Chapter 1. Online social support groups/communities: implications of theoretical and empirical findings for individuals coping with health concerns
• Section 2. International perspectives: four case studies showcasing international communities of practice online. Chapter 2. Cyber-moms facing motherhood: holding functions and regressive movements in parenting websites ; Chapter 3. Analyzing online social support within the type 1 diabetes community ; Chapter 4. Social support through digital media?: breast cancer groups at facebook ; Chapter 5. Insight into sub-Saharan African discussions of anxiety and depression online
• Section 3. Rethinking the current paradigm: analyzing individual/collective agency in a technologically mediated society. Chapter 6. Lonely typers at midnight: investigating the quandaries of millennial illness through digital ethnography of Reddit ; Chapter 7. Sharing your personal medical experience online: is it an irresponsible act or patient empowerment? ; Chapter 8. Social media for mental health initiatives.

Other format(s)

Also available in print.

ISBN

9781522537175 (ebook)

OCLC

1020554909

Doi

• 10.4018/978-1-5225-3716-8

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