Medicine 2.0 and Beyond: From Information Seeking to Knowledge Creation in Virtual Health Communities
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO DIGITAL CONSUMPTION, edited by Russell W. Belk and Rosa Llamas, New York and London: Routledge, 2012
16 Pages Posted: 29 Mar 2012
Date Written: March, 29 2012
Abstract
This chapter, part of the Routledge series on Digital Consumption, examines how social media technologies and virtual health communities transform the current healthcare system. Providing examples from virtual health platforms, we explore the new forms of empowerment that occur, and articulate changes in consumer online health information seeking and learning. These changes also open up wider possibilities of post-consumer, post-corporate forms of organizing our world with the help of digital technologies.
Keywords: Health Care, Patient Empowerment, New Media, Online Health Systems, Digital Technologies
JEL Classification: D11, D18, I11, I18, I19, M31, M39, O33
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