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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daphna Yeshua-Katz, Ylva Hård af Segerstad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-12-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120984476