Performing health identities on social media: An online observation of Facebook profiles

“Keep moving forward. LEFT RIGHT LEFT”: A critical metaphor analysis and addressivity analysis of personal and professional obesity blogs

“…Goffman's (1959) "front" and "back stage[s]" are useful for understanding offline as well as online self-presentations (e.g. Koteyko & Hunt, 2016). Some researchers have even suggested that online media can be classified as inherently "front" or "back stage" depending on the degree of control over access that authors have vis-à-vis an audience (Hogan, 2010).…”

Can digital health save democracy? Meeting the cosmopolitical challenge of digital worlds

“…For Weltevrede, Helmond, and Gerlitz (2014), social media real time is not a flat universal, but rather a distributive fabrication (p. 5) which articulates experience by organising content in relation to multiple temporal frameworks. Not only does this process affect the construction of patient identities (Koteyko & Hunt, 2016), but belonging in multiple and changing units of participation produces experimental forms of thinking and feeling linked to multiple claims to health rights through data. For instance, social movements can make visible conditions and illness experiences while advocating for the right to disengage from media applications for practical, ideological or technical reasons, and demanding public participation in the shaping of healthcare services.…”

‘Bad’ mums tell the ‘untellable’: Narrative practices and agency in online stories about postnatal depression on Mumsnet

“…Drawing on previous applied linguistic research on health communication in digital environments (Hamilton 1998, Jones 2010, Page 2012, Harvey 2012, Anesa and Fage-Butler 2015, Koteyko, and Hunt 2016, this paper argues that a closer attention to the language and other linguistic resources which people use in sharing their illness stories online can contribute to a better understanding of the practices and processes of health transformations.…”

“…Turning to social networking sites (SNS), Koteyko and Hunt (2016) illustrate how members of a Facebook diabetes group use creative language and visual resources to cope with the mundane management of a chronic illness. The authors note that because of non-anonymity and context collapse, SNSs discourage users to express negative emotions or challenge the medical status quo; the participants seem to stick to one dominant voice around positive and unproblematic storylines, while anything controversial is avoided.…”