Internet Discourse and Health Debates
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Internet Discourse and Health Debates

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Internet Discourse and Health Debates

About this book

Applying multimodal textual analysis to the languages and images of on-line communication forms, Kay Richardson shows, from an applied linguistic perspective, how the Internet is being used for global, interactive communication about public health risks. Detailed case studies of the possible risks posed by SARS, by mobile phones and by the vaccination of babies against childhood diseases are situated within the context of research on computer-mediated communication, as well as within the broader social context of globalization and discourses of risk and trust.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Internet Discourse and Health Debates
  3. Contents
  4. List of Tables
  5. List of Figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Computer-Mediated Communication and Language
  9. 3 Public Discourses of Risk, Health and Science
  10. 4 Mobile Phones and Brain Cancer
  11. 5 SARS
  12. 6 MMR and Autism
  13. 7 Constructions of Risk: Change, Conflict and Trust
  14. 8 The Internet and the Public Interest
  15. Notes
  16. Appendix: List of Sampled Newsgroups, by Topic
  17. References
  18. Index