Annette Klarenbeek

Hogeschool Utrecht · Research Group for Public Communication

Cancer and its treatments cause significant changes in sexuality that affect the quality of life of both patients and their partners. As these issues are not always discussed with healthcare professionals, cancer patients turn to online health communities to find answers to questions or for emotional support pertaining to sexual issues. By using a...

Objective Many healthcare professionals experience difficulties in discussing sexual health with their patients. The aim of this review was to synthesize results of studies on communication practices in interactions about sexual health in medical settings, to offer healthcare professionals suggestions on how to communicate about this topic. Method...

In line with discursive psychology’s re-specification of psychological categories as discursive practices, this chapter focuses on everyday mobilisation as social action. We analyse online communication on Facebook event pages of local social movements, designed to mobilise for political gatherings such as demonstrations. The aim of the chapter is...

From truth finding to evaluating practices: A discursive psychological analysis of the construction of Twitter rumour related to a robbery of a jewellery store in the Netherlands In this study, the construction of rumour on Twitter during a specific crisis is analysed from a discursive psychological perspective. This perspective treats psychologica...

Samenvatting Dit artikel presenteert de resultaten van een discursief psychologische analyse van geruchtvorming op social media. De analyse van Twitterberichten die zijn geplaatst tijdens de zoektocht naar twee vermiste kinderen heeft tot doel inzicht te verwerven in de manier waarop geruchten zich ten tijde van crisissituaties op social media ontw...

This article presents the results of a discursive psychological analysis of the evolvement of rumours on social media. The focus of the analysis lies on the discursive strategies participants use in their tweets about a particular crisis situation, and how these strategies contribute to the creation and evolvement of a rumour. Rather than treating...