33.2608, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2608, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:25:47
From: Barbara De Cock [barbara.decock at uclouvain.be]
Subject: Panel at 18th International Pragmatics Conference: Hierarchies of Knowledge in Online Health Communities

 
Full Title: Panel at 18th International Pragmatics Conference: Hierarchies of Knowledge in Online Health Communities 
Short Title: IPrA 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Barbara De Cock
Meeting Email: barbara.decock at uclouvain.be

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Panel at 18th conference of the International Pragmatics Association


Call for Papers:

Panel organized by Barbara De Cock (UCLouvain) and Carolina Figueras Bates
(Universitat de Barcelona)

Social support has been found to be a critical factor in improving patients’
well-being and overall quality of life. Feeling understood and supported by
others with similar health experiences seems to reduce stress and to increase
compliance with treatments and clinical interventions (Shigaki et al., 2008;
Wright & Bell, 2003). With the advent of the Internet, there has been a
widespread proliferation of web-based platforms that facilitate patients’
access to social support, ranging from asynchronous mediums, like online
forums or blogs, to more interactive synchronous social networking sites and
live chats. 

The availability of a variety of online platforms for supportive communication
is
particularly valuable for individuals who live with long-term conditions or
with mental issues that are not widely understood or for which a treatment is
difficult or not completely successful (Coulson, Buchanan, & Aubeeluck, 2007;
Mo & Coulson, 2008). In these contexts, online social support incentivizes the
opportunities for building and sharing knowledge among caregivers and
patients. 

The focus of this panel is to examine the types of knowledge shared in these
online platforms, and to identify the interactional processes invested in
knowledge creation and transmission that are characteristic of online
supportive communications, through the following questions: 

1. How is knowledge created and shared among participants in online health
support groups?
2. Are there different types of knowledge that are primarily constructed
according to the type of health condition?
3. How do the participants interact to bring about knowledge about the
condition and its treatments, and how do they transmit and (re)construct this
knowledge over time?
4. How do participants co-construe authoritative knowledge coming from a range
of distinct sources (medical literature, health care professionals, lived
experiences of patients, alternative health providers)?
5. How are hierarchies of knowledge in online health support communities being
built?
6. What territories of knowledge, in terms of Heritage (2012), operate in each
site and in each health condition?

References

Coulson, N. S., Buchanan, H., & Aubeeluck, A. (2007). Social support in
cyberspace: A content
analysis of communication within a Huntington's disease online support group.
Patient
Education and Counseling, 68(2), 173-178. 

Heritage, J. (2012). The epistemic engine: Sequence organization and
territories of knowledge. ROLSI, 45(1), 30-52.

Mo, P. K. H., & Coulson, N. S. (2008). Exploring the communication of social
support within
virtual communities: A content analysis of messages posted to an online
HIV/AIDS support
group. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 11(3), 371-374. 

Shigaki, C. L., et al. (2008). Social interactions in an online
self-management program for rheumatoid
arthritis. Chronic Illness, 4(4), 239-246. 

Wright, K. B., & Bell, S. B. (2003). Health-related support groups on the
Internet: Linking
empirical findings to social support and computer-mediated communication
theory. Journal of
Health Psychology, 8(1), 39-54.

IPrA Call for Papers Page: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP




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