[Air-l] Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #785 - 2 msgs

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

Stewart Alexander (speech communication) recently completed a doctoral
dissertation at UIUC on online support groups. He looked at several types of
groups.

Leadership and social support on the internet : a longitudinal analysis of
mental and physical illness groups / by Stewart Christopher Alexander  /
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.
Published: 2002. Physical Description: viii, 158 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.


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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:18:17 -0400
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> From: David Jacobson <jacobson at brandeis.edu>
> Subject: [Air-l] Online Support Groups
> Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm looking for references to journal articles, written by sociologists,
> psychologists, anthropologists  or other social scientists about online
> peer illness support groups. The disorders can be of any kind--e.g.,
breast
> cancer, anorexia, pain syndromes, huntington's disease, etc. I'd
appreciate
> any suggestions. If you email them to me (jacobson at brandeis.edu), I'll
> compile them and post them to this list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave Jacobson
>
>
> David Jacobson
> Professor of Anthropology
> Department of Anthropology
> Brandeis University
> MS 006
> Waltham, MA 02454-9110
> USA
>
> Phone: 781-736-2228
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>