How Do Online Communities of Patients Aggregate on Twitter? An Affordance Perspective

Roberta Bernardi

How Do Online Communities of Patients Aggregate on Twitter? An Affordance Perspective

Roberta Bernardi

School of Management - Business School

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This paper seeks to explore the key affordances influencing patients’ engagement with online communities on Twitter. Drawing on a socio-technical perspective of affordances, the paper presents the qualitative analysis of a sample of tweets from a patients’ community chat on Twitter. The paper makes the following contributions. First, it draws on the concept of composite affordances to show the influence of affordance relationships on patients’ engagement with online communities on Twitter. Second, it extends our knowledge about the implications of the attributes of Twitter digital objects for the realization of affordances that influence engagement in patients’ online communities. The paper furthers our understanding of the main factors that influence aggregation and interaction within communities of patients on Twitter.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh International Conference on Information Systems: 2016
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of a meeting held 11-14 December 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
Publisher	Association for Information Systems
Pages	2993-3011
Number of pages	19
Volume	37
Edition	4
ISBN (Print)	9781510838376
Publication status	Published - 14 Dec 2016
Event	37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016) - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 11 Dec 2016 → 14 Dec 2016 https://archives.aisconferences.org/icis2016/index.html

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Conference	37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016)
Abbreviated title	ICIS 2016
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	11/12/16 → 14/12/16
Internet address	https://archives.aisconferences.org/icis2016/index.html

Keywords

Online communities
Healthcare
Affordances
Digital objects
Twitter

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Bernardi, R 2016, How Do Online Communities of Patients Aggregate on Twitter? An Affordance Perspective. in Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh International Conference on Information Systems: 2016: Proceedings of a meeting held 11-14 December 2016, Dublin, Ireland.. 4 edn, vol. 37, Association for Information Systems, pp. 2993-3011, 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016), Dublin, Ireland, 11/12/16.

How Do Online Communities of Patients Aggregate on Twitter? An Affordance Perspective. / Bernardi, Roberta.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh International Conference on Information Systems: 2016: Proceedings of a meeting held 11-14 December 2016, Dublin, Ireland.. Vol. 37 4. ed. Association for Information Systems, 2016. p. 2993-3011.

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