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Investigates new entrepreneurial patient practices which challenge existing cultural understandings of illness
Analyses social media communication of cancer patients, alongside interview material
Discusses the intertwinement of social media practices with the contemporary formation of new forms of biological citizenship and activism
Addresses how illness on social media can also co-produce darker affective states of negativity, longing and disappointment
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus University School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus, Denmark
Carsten Stage
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Networked Cancer
Book Subtitle: Affect, Narrative and Measurement
Authors: Carsten Stage
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51418-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51417-8Published: 11 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84645-3Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51418-5Published: 04 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 205
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Media, Media and Communication, Medical Anthropology, Medical Sociology, Communication Studies, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention