title: The Great Whoosh: Connecting an Online Personal Health Narrative and Communication Privacy Management.
abstract: This research study examined Bud Goodall's online health narrative as a case study through the use of a thematic analysis to investigate the presence of communication privacy management (CPM) theory. Emergent themes of humor as a privacy management strategy, legitimization of co-owners, shifting privacy rules at end of life, and metaphors as privacy protection were used to recount Goodall's cancer experience on his personal blog, connecting to the components of CPM. The themes the authors analyzed represent the push-pull dialectical tension experienced to reveal and conceal information, conceptualization of private information, shared boundaries, and boundary linkages.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communication , University of Arizona.
authors.forename: Stephanie A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communication , University of Arizona.
authors.forename: Steven R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Brunner
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D058015:Health Communication / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D033262:Narration; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D018907:Privacy