Towards understanding how individuals with inflammatory bowel disease use contemporary social media platforms for health-related discourse

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Highlights：

• Multiple social media use common for health-related online support.

• Social platforms' interfaces impact on therapeutic affordances differently.

• Hidden and sequential affordances realised through multiple features used.

• People with chronic illnesses are aware of their online identity.

• Identity management important part of online health communications.

摘要

•Multiple social media use common for health-related online support.•Social platforms' interfaces impact on therapeutic affordances differently.•Hidden and sequential affordances realised through multiple features used.•People with chronic illnesses are aware of their online identity.•Identity management important part of online health communications.

论文关键词：Social media,Inflammatory bowel disease,Affordance theory,Human computer interaction

论文评审过程：Received 23 September 2019, Revised 4 May 2020, Accepted 18 June 2020, Available online 27 June 2020, Version of Record 3 July 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106463