| Title |
Generating a Social Movement Online Community through an Online Discourse: The Case of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Medical Humanities, April 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10912-016-9390-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Olaug S. Lian, Jan Grue |
| Abstract |
Online communities, created and sustained by people sharing and discussing texts on the internet, play an increasingly important role in social health movements. In this essay, we explore a collective mobilization in miniature through an in-depth analysis of two satiric texts from an online community for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). By blending a sociological analysis with a rhetorical exploration of these texts, our aim is to grasp the discursive generation of a social movement online community set up by sufferers themselves to negotiate and contest the dominating biomedical perception of their condition. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 33 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 15% |
| Other | 3 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 3 | 9% |
| Unknown | 10 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 6 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 15% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 12% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 6% |
| Psychology | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 4 | 12% |
| Unknown | 10 | 30% |
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