Click Here to Heal: Overview of the Research Project

III. THEORETICAL CONTEXT: Habermas' Public Sphere Revisited
1. Gendered spaces
  1. Gendered value hierarchy of news
2. 'Re-feudalized'
3. 'Legacy media' and the rise of mediated health communication
  1. Rise of celebrity advocates, mostly women?
4. Social media's new publicness
V. OUTLOOK #2: REASONS FOR PARTICIPATING
1. Content analysis of selected online communities
IV. OUTLOOK #1: MAPPING PLATFORMS
1. Mapping and categorizing available resources: What kind of platforms?
  1. Look at the top 10 sites/communities as well as showcase an array of interesting examples
2. Who 'hosts'? - institutional affiliation?
VI, OUTLOOK #3: Issue Case Study [Breast Cancer?]
1. Lay vs. celebrity
2. Before vs. after social media
II. STRUCUTRAL CONTEXT: Economic disparities; re-configuration of public services; health care crisis
VII.OUTLOOK #4. Issue Case Study [???]
1. Lay vs. Celebrity
2. Before vs. after social media
VIII. OUTLOOK #5: THE FUTURE
1. Medical Professionals and Social Media
  1. Survey and focus groups
I. TECHNOLOGICAL CONTEXT: The rise of social media
1. Gateway to news
2. Community-building and support

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