Curating hope: The aspirational self and social engagement in early-onset cancer communities on social media

J Hodson, V O'Meara - Social Media+ Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Early-onset cancer patients, survivors and caregivers have unique needs in comparison to
their older counterparts. As a result, they often turn to social media to find others with similar …

Educating Cancer on TikTok: Expanding Online Self-Disclosure of Cancer Patients

M Pluta, P Siuda - Social Media+ Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The article uses the concept of online self-disclosure and examines whether TikTok videos
reveal information similar to what is reported in existing research on social media within this …

Like a grinding stone: how crowdfunding platforms create, perpetuate, and value health inequities

N Kenworthy - Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article explores how inequities are reproduced by, and valued within, the increasingly
ubiquitous world of medical crowdfunding. As patients use platforms like GoFundMe to …

[HTML][HTML] Cervical myelopathy and social media: mixed methods analysis

LM Elkaim, JJ Levett, F Niazi, MA Alvi… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is a progressive neurologic condition
caused by age-related degeneration of the cervical spine. Social media has become a …

In their own words: A narrative analysis of illness memoirs written by men with prostate cancer

J van der Kamp, AW Betten… - Sociology of Health & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
By drawing on a narrative analysis of 11 autobiographical illness memoirs, this article
investigates the complexities of what it means to live with prostate cancer over a period of …

[HTML][HTML] Covid-19 and beyond: Broadening horizons about social media use in oncology. A survey study with healthcare professionals caring for youth with cancer

M Rost, V Espeli, M Ansari, N von der Weid… - Health policy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives The study aimed to explore the attitudes of Swiss healthcare professionals
toward the use of social media in adolescent and young adult oncology, and to examine …

How does social media use influence the mental health of pancreatic cancer patients: a chain mediating effect of online social support and psychological resilience

Y Wang, S Bao, Y Chen - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Pancreatic cancer is an extremely malignant disease that poses a serious
threat to the mental health of patients. Many cancer patients now use social media for online …

The technology multiple: The robot avatar substituting for the ill body

M Nordtug, M Haldar - new media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we explore how a very simple telepresence robot avatar becomes a
technology multiple when interacting with humans. Based on Mol's notion of the body …

[HTML][HTML] Mental Health v. Social Media: How US pretrial filings against social media platforms frame and leverage evidence for claims of youth mental health harms

J Richards, K Niitsu, N Kenworthy - SSM-Mental Health, 2025 - Elsevier
Major social media platforms face an onslaught of lawsuits and regulatory efforts related to
concerns about mental health harms for underage users. This project investigated the claims …

Two sides of trust: How cancer survivors' communication with healthcare providers and on social media predicted healthy behaviors during COVID-19

QL Wu, Y Liao, GE Brannon - Patient Education and Counseling, 2025 - Elsevier
Objectives COVID-19 exacerbated pre-existing social inequalities. Using three theories
linking clinical and media contexts to patients' health outcomes, our study investigated (1) …