All Outputs (5)

Performing health identities on social media: an online observation of Facebook profiles (2015)
Journal Article

The increasing role of online technology in mediating our accounts and experiences of health and illness is now well recognised. Whereas earlier research has examined the language of support groups and institutional websites, attention is increasingl... Read More about Performing health identities on social media: an online observation of Facebook profiles.

The many faces of diabetes: a critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook (2015)
Journal Article

Health communication published on Facebook has become a popular source of medical information and large organisations now utilise Facebook to disseminate multimodal representations of health and illness. Drawing on a sample of posts to two popular di... Read More about The many faces of diabetes: a critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook.

'What was your blood sugar reading this morning?': representing diabetes self-management on Facebook (2015)
Journal Article

Social networking sites have swiftly become a salient venue for the production and consumption of neoliberal health discourse by individuals and organisations. These platforms offer both opportunities for individuals to accrue coping resources and a... Read More about 'What was your blood sugar reading this morning?': representing diabetes self-management on Facebook.

UK policy on social networking sites and online health: from informed patient to informed consumer? (2015)
Journal Article

Background: Social networking sites offer new opportunities for communication between and amongst health care professionals, patients and members of the public. In doing so, they have the potential to facilitate public access to health care informati... Read More about UK policy on social networking sites and online health: from informed patient to informed consumer?.

Expectations in the field of the Internet and health: an analysis of claims about social networking sites in clinical literature (2015)
Journal Article

This article adopts a critical sociological perspective to examine the expectations surrounding the uses of social networking sites (SNSs) articulated in the domain of clinical literature. This emerging body of articles and commentaries responds to t... Read More about Expectations in the field of the Internet and health: an analysis of claims about social networking sites in clinical literature.