Entering an online support group on eating disorders : a discourse analysis / / Wyke Stommel.
Online support groups are considered highly valuable in addition to traditional health care services, but we know very little about how people actually join such a group. This book offers a microanalysis of an online support group on eating disorders, specifically the communication through textual m...
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| Superior document: | Utrecht studies in language and communication ; 21 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Utrecht studies in language and communication ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Notes: | Previously submitted to Universität Frankfurt am Main as the author's doctoral dissertation. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The online support group as a community
- Identity in a community
- Accomplishing identity in an online community on eating disorders
- Research design: The forum, ethics, data and method
- Identity accomplished through nicknames
- Opening the first posting: Ambivalence towards the community
- Displaying forumability in the online community
- The main requirement of forumability: Recognition
- Entering the online support group and adopting the sick role
- Conclusions and discussion
- References
- Appendix
- CurriculumVitae.