RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Whose cancer? Visualising the distribution of mentions to cancer sites on instagram
A1 Varela-Rodríguez, Miguel
A1 Vicente-Mariño, Miguel
K1 Health communication; public understanding of science and technology; visual communication; social media; cancer
AB This article presents a quantitative analysis of mentions to cancer on Instagram. Using thousands of images with cancer-related hashtags, we build several visualisations to capture their distribution. Source images are clustered by their visual traits and by the incidence, prevalence, and mortality of the cancer site they refer to. Our goal is three-fold: to provide a quantitative basis for future research on the representation of cancer online; to offer an interpretation of the sources of the imbalanced representation of the different cancer sites; and to motivate a debate on how that representation may affect patients and families.
PB Taylor and Francis
SN 1745-3054
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66065
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66065
LA eng
NO Varela-Rodríguez, Miguel y Vicente-Mariño, Miguel (2022). “Whose cancer? Visualising the distribution of mentions to cancer sites on Instagram”, Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 45(1), 26-42. ISSN: 1745-3054.
DS UVaDOC
RD 11-jul-2024