Publications

Publication details [#60325]

Koteyko, Nelya and Daniel Hunt. 2015. What was your blood sugar reading this morning?’ Representing diabetes self-management on Facebook. Discourse & Society 26 (4) : 445–463.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | health | information chunking | internet | social interaction

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

By fostering reflexive handling of diabetes risks, three diabetes organisation Facebook Pages add to the construction of ‘biological citizens’ who entwine normal social networking interactions with responsible self-care, health information use of and health activism.