Stewart Alexander (speech communication) recently completed a doctoral dissertation at UIUC on online support groups. He looked at several types of groups. Leadership and social support on the internet : a longitudinal analysis of mental and physical illness groups / by Stewart Christopher Alexander / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002. Published: 2002. Physical Description: viii, 158 leaves, bound ; 29 cm. /CH ------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
--__--__-- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:18:17 -0400 To: air-l@aoir.org From: David Jacobson <jacobson@brandeis.edu> Subject: [Air-l] Online Support Groups Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Dear Colleagues,
I'm looking for references to journal articles, written by sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists or other social scientists about online peer illness support groups. The disorders can be of any kind--e.g., breast cancer, anorexia, pain syndromes, huntington's disease, etc. I'd appreciate any suggestions. If you email them to me (jacobson@brandeis.edu), I'll compile them and post them to this list.
Thanks in advance,
Dave Jacobson
David Jacobson Professor of Anthropology Department of Anthropology Brandeis University MS 006 Waltham, MA 02454-9110 USA
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