Context: The use of the Internet for peer‐to‐peer connection has been one of its most
dramatic and transformational features. Yet this is a new field with no agreement on a …

This review surveys and divides the ethnographic corpus on digital media into three broad
but overlapping categories: the cultural politics of digital media, the vernacular cultures of …

This article seeks to open dialogue about the utility of resource mobilization theory in
explaining social movements and their impact by exploring the use of social media in the …

Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

This qualitative systematic review investigated how individuals with chronic illness
experience online peer-to-peer support and how their experiences influence daily life with …

Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor of Crime, Law, and Society in the Department of Criminal
Justice, University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He holds additional faculty appointments in …

Social media gained rapid prominence within few years of its existence. It is generally the
medium to socialize and many are awed by the transformation of communications processes …

The internet is now a major source of health information for lay people. Within the medical,
sociological and popular literatures there have been three main responses to this …

Steven Epstein experiential knowledge of illness possessed or cultivated by patient groups
or health movements? What sorts of challenges do these lay actors pose to the authority of …

The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology,
the Internet and mobile devices. Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical …