Speaking About Birth: Visible and Silenced Narratives in Online Discussions of Childbirth

In this article, I present an analysis of 1930 posts from 12 discussion threads from an online parenting forum, drawing upon a broader project on the mediation of childbirth. I present three themes in analysis: the multi-pronged functions of writing birth narratives, the discursive and perceived sil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ranjana Das
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-10-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117735753