A study of informational support exchanges in MedHelp Alcoholism community

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7227 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 9-17

  Chuang, Katherine Y ^a   Yang, Christopher C ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer mediated communication; health informatics; social media; social support

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; E-PATIENTS; HEALTH INFORMATICS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATIONAL SUPPORT; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; USER COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION; HEALTH; WEBSITES;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84859128102     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29047-3_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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