Internet Discourse and Health Debates

Download or read book Internet Discourse and Health Debates written by K. Richardson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying multimodal textual analysis to the languages and images of on-line communication forms, Kay Richardson shows, from an applied linguistic perspective, how the Internet is being used for global, interactive communication about public health risks. Detailed case studies of the possible risks posed by SARS, by mobile phones and by the vaccination of babies against childhood diseases are situated within the context of research on computer-mediated communication, as well as within the broader social context of globalization and discourses of risk and trust.