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Internet Discourse and Health Debates

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Authors:
  1. Kay Richardson

    1. School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kay Richardson
    Pages 1-8

  3. Computer-Mediated Communication and Language

    • Kay Richardson
    Pages 9-30

  4. Public Discourses of Risk, Health and Science

    • Kay Richardson
    Pages 31-52

  5. Mobile Phones and Brain Cancer

    • Kay Richardson
    Pages 53-89

  6. SARS

    • Kay Richardson
    Pages 90-129

  7. MMR and Autism

    • Kay Richardson
    Pages 130-162

  8. Constructions of Risk

    • Kay Richardson
    Pages 163-194

  9. The Internet and the Public Interest

    • Kay Richardson
    Pages 195-209

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 210-236
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About this book

Applying multimodal textual analysis to the languages and images of on-line communication forms, Kay Richardson shows, from an applied linguistic perspective, how the Internet is being used for global, interactive communication about public health risks. Detailed case studies of the possible risks posed by SARS, by mobile phones and by the vaccination of babies against childhood diseases are situated within the context of research on computer-mediated communication, as well as within the broader social context of globalization and discourses of risk and trust.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool, UK

    Kay Richardson

About the author

KAY RICHARDSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool,UK. Her other books include Nuclear Reactions: A Study in Public Issue Television (co-authored with Natalie Fenton), Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method (co-authored with Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Frazer, Penelope Harvey and Ben Rampton), Text, Discourse and Context: Representations of Poverty in Britain (co-edited with Ulrike H. Meinhof) and Worlds in Common: Television Discourses in a Changing Europe
(coauthored with Ulrike H. Meinhof).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Internet Discourse and Health Debates

  • Authors: Kay Richardson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230512979

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1483-5Published: 10 November 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51192-1Published: 01 January 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51297-9Published: 10 November 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 236

  • Topics: Political Communication, Sociolinguistics, Ethics

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