Seeking out very like-minded others: exploring trust and advice issues in an online health support group
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Seeking out very like-minded others: exploring trust and advice issues in an online health support group
Online health communities are one source of information and advice in which people, patients and their carers can exchange information and experiential advice. This advice is likely to be mixed in nature with some congenial i.e. supportive of a person‟s existing standpoint and some uncongenial. This study examines how people manage the process of advice giving in a cancer support group. A disco...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Web Based Communities
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1477-8394,1741-8216
DOI: 10.1504/ijwbc.2010.035840