The wounded blogger: analysis of narratives by women with breast cancer

Coll‐Planas, Gerard; Barbosa, Mariona Visa

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12405

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“…Others explored Frank's narrative‐based analysis, in particular his notion of the restitution narrative associated with biomedical or modernist approaches to conquering illness (Frank in Coll‐Planas and Visa , Sparkes et al . ) and the quest narrative, based around a rejection of biomedicine and a search for alternative meanings in the post‐modern age.…”

Section: Living With and Beyond Cancermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Once again, these studies challenge rather than reassert the theoretical framework under exploration. For example, Coll‐Planas and Visa () did not find the dichotomy between biomedical, restitution (modernist) and challenging quest (post‐modern) narratives in their analysis of a series of breast cancer blogs, but instead identified a series of intertwined narratives of survival, gratitude, relationality, positivity and personal growth (see also Hansen and Tjornhoj‐Thomsen ).…”

Section: Living With and Beyond Cancermentioning

confidence: 99%

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The sociology of cancer: a decade of research

Kerr

Ross

Jacques

et al. 2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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Biomedicine is often presented as the driving force behind improvements in cancer care, with genomics the latest innovation poised to change the meaning, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and lived experience of cancer. Reviewing sociological analyses of a diversity of patient and practitioner experiences and accounts of cancer during the last decade (2007–17), we explore the experiences of, approaches to and understandings of cancer in this period. We identify three key areas of focus: (i) cancer patient experiences and identities; (ii) cancer risk and responsibilities and (iii) bioclinical collectives. We explore these sociological studies of societal and biomedical developments and how sociologists have sought to influence developments in cancer identities, care and research. We end by suggesting that we extend our understanding of innovations in the fields of cancer research to take better account of these wider social and cultural innovations, together with patients, activists' and sociologists' contributions therein.

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Section: Living With and Beyond Cancermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Living With and Beyond Cancermentioning

confidence: 99%

The sociology of cancer: a decade of research

Kerr

Ross

Jacques

et al. 2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Some of the women had never written a blog before and the cancer diagnosis became a reason for doing so, and the blog became a vehicle for this outburst. Blogs were used as a way of exposing aspects of private life, or even intimacies; exposing aspects of everyday life associated with living with a particular disease [25], thereby helping them to cope with the experience. However, this was not the only role of writing blogs.…”

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Young women with breast cancer-using the healing tool; writing blogs

Vargens¹,

Berterö²

2017

Nurs Palliat Care

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Purpose: This qualitative study aims to interpret and describe how young women diagnosed with a breast cancer uses blogs to manage daily life.Methods: 14 blogs written by women diagnosed with breast cancer aged between 25 and 38 years. These blogs were analysed using qualitative thematic analysis.Results: Four themes were identified in the data body illustrating what the women were writing about in their blogs: Experiencing frustration, The fear is bigger than death, Preparing for physical changes, Body and mind are in disharmony. These four themes ended up in a concluding theme: The healing effect of writing a blog. Conclusion:The young women used writing blogs as a healing activity. The writing was a channel for emotions and thoughts, but was also a way of sharing experiences and supporting each other. Their narratives revealed the impact of breast cancer experiences on their personal, familial and social lives. Reading blogs is an activity that could allow healthcare professionals to better understand these women's life situation and needs. Implications for practice:Blogs could become a useful tool for healthcare professionals, relatives, patients and the people around them. By reading blogs, not necessarily commenting on or writing them, there will be a better and deeper understanding about the effects of a cancer diagnosis. Using blogs could facilitate the provision of requested and needed health care activities.

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“…Social media is a new important platform for (semi)public narrations of illness, and cancer narratives shared on social media platforms; such as blogs, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube (Kaplan & Haenlein: 2010;Klastrup, 2016) have in particular received increased academic interest over the last decade (Andersson: 2017;Coll-Planas & Visa: 2016;Heilferty: 2018;Nesby & Salamonsen: 2016;Orgad: 2005;Pitts: 2004). However, I would like to argue that analytical approaches to this type of narrative material are still largely modelled on typologies and definitions developed in literary studies aimed at understanding book-based illness narratives (Frank: 1995;Hawkins: 1999;Jurecic: 2012).…”

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Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

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2019

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Cancer narratives shared on social media platforms have received increased academic interest over the last decade but often without sufficiently acknowledging the media specific narrative affordances of these platforms. The article will address this problem, by first presenting a ‘small stories’ approach to studying illness narrative on social media and then putting the approach to work in a case study of a Danish cancer patient’s Instagram profile (@jannelivsnyder66). The paper argues, that the storytelling practices on the profile can be analytically approached by focusing on the interplay between three co-constitutive levels of interaction: 1) a level of the desired illness narrative and position that the narrator, influenced by available cultural discourses and interaction with followers, hopes to be able to tell; 2) a level of sharing everyday posts, which can either support or disturb the desired narrative; 3) a level of follower responses, where relations between the desired narrative and singular posts are monitored through processes of liking and commenting. Followers of social media cancer narratives should in light of this not be understood as an audience witnessing an individual telling his/her “own” story, but rather as crucial contributors to the social interaction and co-creation of desired narratives, subject positions, narrative progress and tellability. In conclusion, the article thus stresses that cancer storytelling on social media, despite the strong biological connection of the disease to an individual body, emerges through inherently social processes of reading, liking, commenting, monitoring and co-deciding narrative practices.

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The wounded blogger: analysis of narratives by women with breast cancer

Cited by 21 publications

References 31 publications

The sociology of cancer: a decade of research

The sociology of cancer: a decade of research

Young women with breast cancer-using the healing tool; writing blogs

Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

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