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Hunt, Daniel. 2015. The many faces of diabetes: A critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook. Language & Communication 43 : 72–86.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Large health organisations currently exploit Facebook to circulate multimodal, in casu diabetes-linked, health and illness representations, using visual and linguistic social intimacy features to resume personal relationships with their audiences and to promote user participation in their authoring organisations (thus generating income).