Kivits Joëlle
Société française de santé publique, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France.
Sociol Health Illn. 2009 Jul;31(5):673-87. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01153.x. Epub 2009 Feb 11.
This paper explores the relationship between internet use and individuals' health experience. Adopting a 'mediated health' approach, it presents four cases studies of households using the internet for health information. The study shows that participants use the internet as it offers personalized information in line with individuals' and families' health needs affecting their everyday routines. The internet emerges as an everyday helper linked to the intimacy of health experiences. Agency is manifest in study participants' choice of both becoming more informed as well as having the possibility of ignoring information. Case studies also show how personal internet use is confronted by informational surroundings generating flows of information that may induce uncertainty on the information seeker's side. The paper calls for a perspective which considers together personal health experience and media use to embed online health information seeking within an everyday context of internet use.
本文探讨了互联网使用与个人健康体验之间的关系。采用“中介健康”方法，它呈现了四个家庭使用互联网获取健康信息的案例研究。研究表明，参与者使用互联网是因为它能根据个人和家庭的健康需求提供个性化信息，从而影响他们的日常生活。互联网成为与健康体验的亲密性相关联的日常帮手。能动性体现在研究参与者选择获取更多信息以及有可能忽略信息这两方面。案例研究还表明，个人使用互联网时会面临信息环境，这些环境产生的信息流可能会使信息寻求者产生不确定性。本文呼吁采用一种将个人健康体验和媒体使用结合起来的视角，以便将在线健康信息寻求嵌入互联网使用的日常背景中。
