Seeking medical information through social media: where is the voice of expertise?

Social media in healthcare have been rapidly and widely adopted by patients seeking information. While they allow users to obtain information or to share their experience, the social media represent a space dedicated to patients, outside of the medical sphere embodied by health professionals. Nevert...

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Veröffentlicht in:Le temps des médias 2014-01, Vol.23, p.141-143
Hauptverfasser: Paganelli, Céline, Clavier, Viviane
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Zusammenfassung:Social media in healthcare have been rapidly and widely adopted by patients seeking information. While they allow users to obtain information or to share their experience, the social media represent a space dedicated to patients, outside of the medical sphere embodied by health professionals. Nevertheless, they get organised around authority figures either based on patients' experiences or on the words used by health professionals. The analysis of a corpus made up of discussion threads, blog postings and conversations from a social network in health, shows that almost half of the posts make reference to health professionals and to their speech. //ABSTRACT IN FRENCH: Les médias sociaux de santé permettent aux internautes de s'informer, de partager leurs expériences et représentent un espace qui s'affranchit de la sphère spécialisée, incarnée par les professionnels de santé. Pourtant, on constate que ces médias s'organisent autour de figures d'experts, qu'elles soient fondées sur le parcours de vie des internautes ou sur les experts traditionnels. L'analyse d'un corpus de messages issus de médias sociaux et portant sur des maladies graves ou orphelines montre que près de la moitié des messages postés font référence aux professionnels de santé. Reproduced by permission of Bibliothèque de Sciences Po
ISSN:1764-2507
DOI:10.3917/tdm.023.0141