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Breast Cancer Supportive Communication & Twitter
Class: Mediated Communications
Assignment Brief:
The assignment required that we explore the affordances of mediated communications in a community of our choosing.
Research Outline:
Twitter users choose to follow various informative sources such as patients, health organizations, and health-related media (Himelboim & Han, 2013). Abundant studies on technological affordance have also focused on the role of Twitter promoting and transmitting health-related information among users. Taking cue from this background, we (a team of 5) explored how people who were affected by breast cancer (directly or indirectly) engaged weak-ties on Twitter in order to gain informational, emotional, instrumental or promotional support.
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