Governing PatientsLikeMe: Information Production and Research Through an Open, Distributed, and Data-Based Social Media Network

Information Society

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 193-211

  Tempini, Niccolò ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aggregation; data based; distributed science; engagement; information cultivation; PatientsLikeMe; self reporting; semantic context, social denomination; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925957358     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2015.998108     Document Type: Article

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