Steve, Joe Dumit at MIT is doing some work on that. He has a paper on Very Large Scale Conversations & Illness-based Social Movements. His email is dumit@MIT.EDU and his webpage is symptom.mit.edu. Hope this helps Joao At 03:51 PM 4/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:

Has anybody researched the area of legitimacy of medical information in online healthcare support communities? An example of this would be analyzing online cancer newsgroups to a) see the amount of medical information or advice that is disseminated, b) see who is providing advice or medical information, and c) review the responses and any actions that result from this advice.

I'm beginning a small project on this and it would be great to know if anybody out there has done similar stuff or knows of any literature in the area.

Cheers,

Steve

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