@article{Schreiber_2023, title={#strokesurvivor on Instagram: Conjunctive experiences of adapting to disability}, volume={39}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/132468}, DOI={10.7146/mk.v39i74.132468}, abstractNote={<p>This study investigates practices of sharing the experience of stroke on Instagram through use of the hashtag #strokesurvivor. The hashtag brings together people from different cultural backgrounds and professions and those who experience different kinds of healthcare and varying degrees of physical or cognitive impairment. Through a digital ethnography of #strokesurvivor, the conjunctive experiences and communicative practices of the community are reconstructed. Instagram enables specific forms of sociality and sharing, like long-term visual storytelling and influencer dynamics. Adapting to a transformed body and identity is perceived and practiced as a conjunctive experience and a struggle. A strong orientation towards a “normal life” is a recurring theme. Mourning and perseverance are put forward as two modes of coping with and adapting to a transforming body and self.</p>}, number={74}, journal={MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research}, author={Schreiber, Maria}, year={2023}, month={May}, pages={50–72} }