Affordance theory can help understanding of individuals' use of online support communities

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Affordance theory can help understanding of individuals' use of online support communities

In the early days of the Internet limited interaction existed between websites and individual users and as a result individuals were largely confined to searching for and reading health-related information. Searching for health-related information remains commonplace (i.e. in 2016, 51% searched for...

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Main Author:	Coulson, Neil S.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley 2017
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42693/

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