‘Aorta tell you’: Exploring a facebook group for heart disease and its potential to generate knowledge from collective experience

• Main Author: Parrocha, Azer N.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Social media; Communication in medicine; Cardiovascular system—Diseases; Communities of practice; Online chat groups; Film and Media Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_comm/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=etdm_comm
• Institution: De La Salle University

Recent work on health and disease-specific Facebook groups focus on pros and cons, but not often understood is how members develop new knowledge through their interactions. This thesis presents how a private Facebook group for cardiovascular disease (CVD) is used by Filipino patients and family care...