New directions for critical internet health studies
Representing Cancer Experience on the Web
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2265713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clive Seale (Brunel University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 515-540 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00454.x |
| PMID | 15998349 |
| OpenAlex | W1976283751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 42 |
Studies of health representations on the internet have been preoccupied with the assessment of their (medically-defined) accuracy and quality. This contrasts with studies of health representations in 'old' media, where critical sociological analyses are common. Medical sociologists have been concerned to establish the potential of web information in transforming professional-client relations. A case study of breast and prostate cancer web sites provides evidence of the increasing convergence of the 'new' medium of the internet and old media such as newspapers and television. Large institutions are now consolidating their presence on the web so that users experience increasingly similar messages across media platforms. Search engines and links to the web from old media sources direct people to heavily resourced, mainstream health sites where, in the case of cancer, representations of gender are strikingly similar to those found in studies of old media sources. The media convergence thesis contrasts with earlier celebrations of the internet as a new medium that would promote a diversity of perspectives on health. Using existing methods for analysing media texts and developing new methods where appropriate, sociologists and media analysts interested in health need to develop more critical perspectives on this important new medium
Convergence (economics · Diversity (politics · Internet privacy · Mainstream · Media studies · News media · Newspaper · Political science · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Sociology · Technological convergence · Telecommunications · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Media and Politics
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Financial incentives to encourage healthy behaviour
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Intimate mothering publics’
Reading Between the Lines
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Mediated health
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Surplus suffering’
Media and the Israeli disability rights legislation
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Technoscientific promotion and biofuel policy
The many faces of diabetes
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Advancing search engine studies
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Internet na promoção da saúde
A construção do diagnóstico do autismo em uma rede social virtual brasileira
Discourse of `transformational leadership' in infection control
Gendered Portraits of Depression in Swedish Newspapers
Your Brain Matters
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Gender accommodation in online cancer support groups
The role of the Internet in cancer patients' engagement with complementary and alternative treatments
A internet, o paciente expert e a prática médica
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Filling one's days
The pharmaceuticalisation of society? A framework for analysis
Shifting blame/selling health
Internet social support groups as moral agents
The mundane realities of the everyday lay use of the internet for health, and their consequences for media convergence
The wounded blogger
Expectations in the field of the Internet and health
The commodification of patient opinion
The Internet in Everyday Life
Perceptions of Internet Information Credibility
Femininity, Responsibility, and the Technological Imperative
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Who talks? The social psychology of illness support groups.
Modernity and self-identity
Landscaping climate change
Drought, debate, and uncertainty
Health risks on the internet
Modernity and Self-Identity
Democracy via Cyberspace
Medicine on the line? Computer‐mediated social support and advice for people with diabetes
Self, Health, and Gender
Gender and the Internet
E-Scaped Medicine? Information, Reflexivity and Health
Shaping the Web
Telling stories
Prostate Cancer's Hegemonic Masculinity in Select Print Mass Media Depictions (1974-1995)
Methodology versus scholarship
Virtual Togetherness
The Story of My Illness
Use of the Internet by medical voluntary groups in the UK
Testicular Cancer
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
Cancer Heroics
Health and media
Popular media and 'excessive daytime sleepiness
Media activism and Internet use by people with HIV/Aids
Ignorance is bliss sometimes
Sporting cancer
Doctor in the house
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,86 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |