Metaphor Diffusion in Online Health Communities: Infodemiology Study in a Stroke Online Health Community
Sara Khoshnaw, Pietro Panzarasa, Anna De Simoni, Naomi Cahill · 2024
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Description
Sara Khoshnaw and three co-authors track how a single phrase spread through an online stroke support group. Group members swap tips on living with stroke after-effects, which can ease self-care at no clinic cost. The phrase at stake was legacy of stroke, used for the lasting symptoms a stroke leaves. The team read posts by UK survivors and their families from 2004 to 2011 to trace its path.
The phrase was new when it first showed in just the second of 3,459 talk threads. A stroke doctor had used it to name post-stroke tiredness, and a keen group member then spread it. The team sorted its spread into self-promotion and viral kinds, and counted how far each jump reached. Word checks against a national text bank backed its novelty. The case shows how one apt phrase can carry self-care ideas.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sara Khoshnaw, Pietro Panzarasa, Anna De Simoni, Naomi Cahill |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |