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Generating a Social Movement Online Community through an Online Discourse: The Case of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
Lian OS, Grue J.
J Med Humanit. 2016 Apr 8. [Epub ahead of print]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27059618
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-016-9390-8
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Generating a Social Movement Online Community through an Online Discourse: The Case of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
Lian OS, Grue J.
J Med Humanit. 2016 Apr 8. [Epub ahead of print]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27059618
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-016-9390-8
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