Internet Discourse and Health Debates [electronic resource] /
Richardson, K.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Computer-Mediated Communication and Language; 3 Public Discourses of Risk, Health and Science; 4 Mobile Phones and Brain Cancer; 5 SARS; 6 MMR and Autism; 7 Constructions of Risk: Change, Conflict and Trust; 8 The Internet and the Public Interest; Notes; Appendix: List of Sampled Newsgroups, by Topic; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-230) and index.
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.
Political communication.
Sociolinguistics.
Ethics.
Political Communication.
Sociolinguistics.
Ethics.