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Title

'Does anyone else have this?' The role of emotion in forum discussions about medical conditions affecting sex characteristics

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University of Waikato

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Description

When people experience rare medical conditions or variations, searching online may be the only way to find others with similar experiences. This study examines what happens when people do just that. The dataset for the research has been generated from online posts by people living with variations of sex characteristics, which some call intersex variations. Our analysis focuses on how emotion appears in online posts, how affect becomes embodied in digital contexts, and how norms are negotiated...

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Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2021

Creator

Roen, Katrina / Carlquist, Erik / Prøitz, Lin

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14185

Related subjects

Social Sciences / Family Studies / Social Sciences, Biomedical / Biomedical Social Sciences / Intersex / variation of sex characteristics / diverse sex development / emotion / online

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Culture Health & Sexuality on February 20, 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13691058.2019.1688867.

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