The many faces of diabetes: a critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook

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The many faces of diabetes: a critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook

Health communication published on Facebook has become a popular source of medical information and large organisations now utilise Facebook to disseminate multimodal representations of health and illness. Drawing on a sample of posts to two popular diabetes-related Facebook pages, this paper aims to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hunt, Daniel
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2015
Subjects:	Multimodal discourse analysis; Health communication; Facebook; Diabetes; Social media; Synthetic personalisation
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32227/

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