Abstract

JOVER-LEAL, Assumpta  and  GRAU-MUNOZ, Arantxa. Anyone connected? The virtual communities of agora-phobic people and the management and experience of discomforts. Inter disciplina [online]. 2021, vol.9, n.24, pp.201-227.  Epub June 25, 2021. ISSN 2448-5705.  https://doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2021.23.78464.

This article discusses the entries produced in three groups of the Facebook social network created and used by people diagnosed with agoraphobia. From this analysis, it is identified that virtual com-munities are fulfilling a series of functions for users in them in relation to the management and experience of discomfort, such as: 1) a production and distribution of heterogeneous information; 2) providing peer support, 3) the provision of identity, and; 4) promoting the possibility of resistance to official and hegemonic biomedical discourse for the treatment and management of agoraphobia.

Keywords : mental health; agoraphobia; social network; information; support; idetity; resistance; agency.

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