Mediated health: Sociotechnical practices of providing and using online health information

New Media and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1123-1142

  Mager, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Google; Internet; Links; Online health information; Trust; Users; Website providers

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449642455     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809341700     Document Type: Article

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