Self-narrating cancer on social media: Examining the relationships among narrative components, emotional expressions, and social support reception.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

With the rise of social media, self-narration has become a critical way for people living with cancer to share their experiences and emotions through video blogs. This study examines four major narrative components of cancer vlogs to explore whether different narrative components are associated with emotions (positive, negative, or problem) and whether these components and social support requests influence the types of social support provision in comments.

Methods

This study employs quantitative content analysis. We conducted stratified random sampling on bilibili, selecting 131 eligible videos and all 12,427 affiliated comments as samples for this study.

Results

The results indicate that self-experience sharing is less prevalent in vlogs with positiv

SUBMITTER: Guo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12541181 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature