Afflexivity in post-qualitative inquiry: prioritising affect and reflexivity in the evaluation of a health information website.
Increasingly, people turn to online sources for health information, creating human-non-human relationalities. Health websites are considered accessible in scope and convenience but can have limited capacity to accommodate complexities. There are concerns about who gets to 'assemble' with these resou...
| Publicado en: | Health Sociology Review Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 323 - 339 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov 2021
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