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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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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