Internet ethnography: A review of methodological considerations for studying online illness blogs.
Background: In recent history, the Internet has emerged as a wealth of archived, ongoing, interactive, and socially mediated data. Conducting Internet ethnography is a fairly new methodological approach, however, it has been previously described as a valid form of inquiry. Illness blogs, in particul...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Nursing Studies Vol. 51; no. 12; pp. 1686 - 1693 |
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Elsevier B.V.
2014
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