TY - JOUR AU - Schreiber, Maria PY - 2023/05/24 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - #strokesurvivor on Instagram: Conjunctive experiences of adapting to disability JF - MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research JA - MedieKultur VL - 39 IS - 74 SE - Articles: Theme section DO - 10.7146/mk.v39i74.132468 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/132468 SP - 50-72 AB - <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> ER -