Catch 22: The Paradox of Social Media Affordances and Stigmatized Online Support Groups
This study highlights the challenges of computer-mediated communication for vulnerable individuals and groups, by studying boundary work in stigmatized communities online. Five stigmatized online communities with different affordances were studied: (1) “pro-ana” blogs; (2) an infertility discussion...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120984476 |