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Luke C. Collins, Gavin Brookes - Digital Health Discourse, Inbunden

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Digital Health Discourse

Av Luke C. Collins, Gavin Brookes

Del i serien Language and Digital Media

2527 kr

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Digital Health Discourse offers a comprehensive overview of how health and illness are talked about, represented and negotiated across contemporary digital platforms. Bringing together linguistic, discourse-analytical and multimodal perspectives, it explores a wide range of digital contexts – including health query interfaces, online support groups, websites, social media, mobile health apps and patient feedback systems – to reveal how digital technologies shape notions of health knowledge, expertise, responsibility and care in the digital age.The textbook foregrounds the role of platform affordances, participation and design in structuring interaction, while attending closely to broader social forces such as medicalisation, commercialisation, neoliberalism and inequality. By combining theoretical discussion with rich, detailed examples from existing research, it equips readers with the conceptual tools needed to critically analyse digital health communication and understand how everyday online interactions not only reflect but continually shape and reshape contemporary health practices.Through detailed case studies, the book demonstrates how to conduct discourse analyses of interactions that use language and other visual resources, involving both health experts and non-professionals, including those with lived experience. Readers are invited to complete practical tasks designed to inspire their own research into the ever-expanding domains of digital health communication. Essential for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of language and health, health communication, and discourse analysis.
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Luke C. Collins is an independent researcher, editor and academic support worker. He is the co-author of Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication: A Guide for Research (Routledge 2023) and author of Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication: A Guide for Research (Routledge 2019).Gavin Brookes is Reader, UKRI Future Leader Fellow and Fulbright Scholar in the School of Social Sciences at Lancaster University. He is the co-author of Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication: A Guide for Research (Routledge 2023) and Masculinities and Language (Routledge 2025).

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"As digital health platforms continue to evolve, this book offers a timely and much-needed resource for scholars across social and health sciences interested in the complex intersections of language, digital technologies and health. The diversity of platforms and genres examined is complemented by an intellectually exciting agenda for future digital health communication research. A deeply engaging and inspirational must-read!"Olga Zayts-Spence, University of Hong Kong"Collins and Brookes have crafted a unique text at the intersection of digital health and discourse studies. They offer invaluable guidelines for ethical research design while demonstrating how an extended discourse analytic toolset can discern meaning across digital health data from help-seeking interactions with AI chatbots to informational webpages, social media, and health."Christopher J. Koenig, San Francisco State University

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