This is an original sociological study of breast cancer patients’ participation in Internet spaces. While much has been debated about the significance of the Internet, the actual processes of communication in which people engage online are little understood as yet. Exploring the ways in which participants in online spaces configure their experience into a story, the book presents readers with an innovative way of understanding online communication as a socially significant activity. The substantive focus of storytelling online is analyzed sensitively and thoroughly in its specificity as a social phenomenon. At the same time it is connected to a broad range of debates on communication and Internet, health, illness, and social agency.

The Author: Shani Orgad is Lecturer in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her Ph.D. in media and communications from the London School of Economics. Her research interests include Internet studies, media and everyday life, media and globalization, narrative and media, health communication and gender.