title: Generating a Social Movement Online Community through an Online Discourse: The Case of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
abstract: Online communities, created and sustained by people sharing and discussing texts on the internet, play an increasingly important role in social health movements. In this essay, we explore a collective mobilization in miniature through an in-depth analysis of two satiric texts from an online community for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). By blending a sociological analysis with a rhetorical exploration of these texts, our aim is to grasp the discursive generation of a social movement online community set up by sufferers themselves to negotiate and contest the dominating biomedical perception of their condition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway. olaug.lian@uit.no.
authors.forename: Olaug S
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-1486
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Lian
authors.affiliation: Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, 0318, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grue
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003142:Communication; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D060756:Social Networking
keywords: Chronic illness; Discourse analysis; Fatigue/exhaustion; Interdisciplinary research; Online research