The conference is organised by the Department of Social Studies and its aim is to investigate the role and impact of the World Wide Web as a health information source in the Austrian medical context.
Concretely, issues as the notion of “informed patient” will be contrasted with the doubts of policy makers about people’s capacity to properly evaluate the “flood of information”. Also, the question of quality criteria to direct the user to reliable health information will be discussed.
The conference searches an integrated and comparative approach proposing a discussion about how far criteria such as gender, education, age, the degree of affectedness and Internet skills influence and shape the medical information on Internet.
Organisers are calling for papers, inviting empirical research and theoretical reflection on the following three areas:
How people search health information on-line?: possibilities and barriers
What role does the Internet play for patients?
How do diverse policy makers frame the Internet as a health information tool?
Documents
Submission form of the Virtually Informed conference
Call for papers of the Virtually Informed conference
For further information please contact Mag. Astrid Mager, Mag. Lisa Gugglberger and Bakk. Bernhard Höcher at virinfo.wissenschaftsforschung@univie.ac.at
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