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Networked Cancer

Affect, Narrative and Measurement

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Carsten Stage

    1. School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus University School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus, Denmark

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  • Investigates new entrepreneurial patient practices which challenge existing cultural understandings of illness

  • Analyses social media communication of cancer patients, alongside interview material

  • Discusses the intertwinement of social media practices with the contemporary formation of new forms of biological citizenship and activism

  • Addresses how illness on social media can also co-produce darker affective states of negativity, longing and disappointment

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Carsten Stage
    Pages 1-43

  3. Cancer Blogging and Connective Action

    • Carsten Stage
    Pages 45-75

  4. Virality, Measurement and Biological Citizenship

    • Carsten Stage
    Pages 77-102

  5. Cancer Selfies, Scans and the Metric Power of Fascination

    • Carsten Stage
    Pages 103-130

  6. Beyond Narrative Relief: Anger, Loneliness and Negativity in Cancer Blogging

    • Carsten Stage
    Pages 131-154

  7. Commemoration, Rhythm and the Problem of Charismatic Succession

    • Carsten Stage
    Pages 155-181

  8. Conclusions

    • Carsten Stage
    Pages 183-193

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 195-205
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This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Through a range of case studies, it shows that a new type of entrepreneurial cancer narrative is currently evolving. This narrative is characterised by using illness to build projects and produce various forms of economic and social value, to stimulate affectively involved and large-scale public participation and to communicate across various social media platforms. Networked cancer: Affect, Narrative and Measurement offers a theoretical framework for understanding this entrepreneurial cancer narrative through an introduction focusing on the key concepts of illness narrative, social media and affect. The chapters examine the importance of connective mobilization, virality, experimental selfies, dark affects and new commemorative practices for understanding entrepreneurial cancer narratives. This study will be of great interest to scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as those interested in narrative medicine, health communication and affect and participation.   

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus University School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus, Denmark

    Carsten Stage

About the author

Carsten Stage is Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests are illness on social media, affect and participatory cultures.

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