Entering an online support group on eating disorders : a discourse analysis /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stommel, Wyke
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : New York : Rodopi, 2009.
Series:Utrecht studies in language and communication ; 21.
Subjects:
Eating disorders.
Medicine > Computer network resources.
Self-help groups.
Sick > Psychology.
Feeding and Eating Disorders > psychology
Feeding and Eating Disorders.
Self-Help Groups
Feeding and Eating Disorders > therapy
Internet
Sick Role
Troubles du comportement alimentaire.
Groupes d'entraide.
Malades > Psychologie.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
Sick > Psychology
Self-help groups
Eating disorders
Medicine > Computer network resources
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I An ethnomethodological approach to community, identity and eating disorders; Chapter 1 The online support group as a community; Chapter 2 Identity in a community; Chapter 3 Accomplishing identity in an online community on eating disorders; Part II Discourse analysis; Chapter 4 Research design: The forum, ethics, data and method; Chapter 5 Identity accomplished through nicknames; Chapter 6 Opening the first posting: Ambivalence towards the community; Chapter 7 Displaying forumability in the online community.

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