Gonzalez-Polledo, E. orcid.org/0000-0002-4696-2104 (2016) Chronic Media Worlds: Social Media and the Problem of Pain Communication on Tumblr. Social Media + Society, 2 (1). ISSN 2056-3051
Abstract
This article explores dynamics of pain communication in the social media platform Tumblr. As a device of health communication, the Tumblr platform brings together a network of behaviors, technologies, and media forms through which pain experience is reimaged through and against mainstream biomedical frameworks. The article develops an interpretative approach to analyze how, as social media platforms reorganize affective, emotional, physical, and temporal frames of experience, communication about chronic pain and illness is reimagined in its capacity to create social worlds. Drawing on ethnographic theory to reimagine the relation between politics and poetics in pain communication, the article explores the issue- and world-making capacities of social media.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. |
Keywords: | Tumblr; social media; chronic pain; chronic illness; pain worlds |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2017 16:03 |
Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2017 16:03 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116628887 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/2056305116628887 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:111361 |