Communication Design Quarterly Jan 2015

Pushing boundaries of normalcy

Marie Moeller

Abstract

We are all patients in some way---or, at the least, patients-in-waiting. Although I am reminded of this reality on a daily, if not hourly, basis, it is most apparent when I log onto the Internet to engage in what millions of users have begun doing in the last few decades: surf for health information. Typing in "breast cancer" for what must be the thousandth time, I look again for research that will provide insight into this biopolitical phenomenon. Perhaps more telling, I search for information about my own body. As I scan the material, I cannot help but ask myself what qualities I possess or have developed and how they fit into the categories of "high risk," "moderate risk," or "low to no risk."

Journal
Communication Design Quarterly
Published
2015-01-13
DOI
10.1145/2721874.2721877
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Topics
multimodality multilingual writers

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