Internet Discourse and Health Debates

KAY RICHARDSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool,UK. Her other books include Nuclear Reactions: A Study in Public Issue Television (co-authored with Natalie Fenton), Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method (co-authored with Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Frazer, Penelope Harvey and Ben Rampton), Text, Discourse and Context: Representations of Poverty in Britain (co-edited with Ulrike H. Meinhof) and Worlds in Common: Television Discourses in a Changing Europe (coauthored with Ulrike H. Meinhof).

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Computer-mediated Communication and Language Public Discourses of Risk, Health and Science Mobile Phones and Brain Cancer SARS MMR and Autism Constructions of Risk: Change, Conflict and Trust The Internet and the Public Interest Notes Appendix: List of Sampled Newsgroups by Topic References Index