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Global perspectives on health communication in the age of social media

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Global perspectives on health communication in the age of social media/ Seif Sekalala and Brandon C. Niezgoda, editors.
other author:	Sekalala, Seif,
Published:	Hershey, Pennsylvania :IGI Global, : [2018],
Description:	1 online resource (xxiii, 348 p.)
基督教聖經之智慧書導讀 :	"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.
Subject:	Communication in medicine. -
Online resource:	http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-3716-8
ISBN:	9781522537175 (ebook)

Global perspectives on health communication in the age of social media
Global perspectives on health communication in the age of social media[electronic resource] /Seif Sekalala and Brandon C. Niezgoda, editors. - Hershey, Pennsylvania :IGI Global,[2018] - 1 online resource (xxiii, 348 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

"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.

ISBN: 9781522537175 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

234776
Communication in medicine.

LC Class. No.: RA423.2 / .G56 2018e

Dewey Class. No.: 362.101/4

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WA 590 / .G56 2018e

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