Disorder Construction as Lay Work: Examining the Relationship Between Sleep Paralysis Construction and Help-Seeking Behaviours
Corinne Weisgerber
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 2010 DOI: 10.1057/9780230292543_7 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that participatory communication technologies are transforming information production and consumption and, in health care, are seen as enabling 'participatory medicine' through greater patient-doctor collaboration. Citing Fox, the authors contend that such citizen participation in health care is as important as political participation and should be encouraged. |
Abstract
The internet, and especially, participatory communication technologies, such as forums, social networks and wikis, are often credited with turning ordinary people into armies of content creators and changing the way information is produced and consumed (Gillin, 2009; Grossman, 2006; McConnell and Huba, 2007). In the realm of electronic health information and consumer health informatics, these technologies are thought to be paving the road for ‘participatory medicine’, or an increased collaboration between patients and doctors as a way to improve health outcomes (Fox, 2009a). According to Fox, this type of citizen participation in health care is just as important as participation in the political process and should therefore be encouraged: These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.