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Networked Cancer: Affect, Narrative and Measurement - Hardcover

Stage, Carsten

 
9783319514178: Networked Cancer: Affect, Narrative and Measurement
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3319514172 ISBN 13: 9783319514178
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Through a range of case studies, it shows that a new type of entrepreneurial cancer narrative is currently evolving. This narrative is characterised by using illness to build projects and produce various forms of economic and social value, to stimulate affectively involved and large-scale public participation and to communicate across various social media platforms. Networked cancer: Affect, Narrative and Measurement offers a theoretical framework for understanding this entrepreneurial cancer narrative through an introduction focusing on the key concepts of illness narrative, social media and affect. The chapters examine the importance of connective mobilization, virality, experimental selfies, dark affects and new commemorative practices for understanding entrepreneurial cancer narratives. This study will be of great interest to scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as those interested in narrative medicine, health communication and affect and participation.   

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About the Author

Carsten Stage is Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests are illness on social media, affect and participatory cultures.

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This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Through a range of case studies, it shows that a new type of entrepreneurial cancer narrative is currently evolving. This narrative is characterised by using illness to build projects and produce various forms of economic and social value, to stimulate affectively involved and large-scale public participation and to communicate across various social media platforms. Networked cancer: Affect, Narrative and Measurement offers a theoretical framework for understanding this entrepreneurial cancer narrative through an introduction focusing on the key concepts of illness narrative, social media and affect. The chapters examine the importance of connective mobilization, virality, experimental selfies, dark affects and new commemorative practices for understanding entrepreneurial cancer narratives. This study will be of great interest to scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as those interested in narrative medicine, health communication and affect and participation.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3319514172
ISBN 13 
9783319514178
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
216