TY - JOUR
T1 - The discursive field of web-based health research
T2 - Implications for nursing research in cyberspace
AU - Cotton, Antoinette H.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Web-based health research is a relatively new phenomenon. Its definition and conceptualization differs markedly as it is deployed within and across a complex array of discourses, with serious implications for nursing research and knowledge development. Web-based health research offers nurse researchers unique and abundant opportunities to provide leadership in the development and conduct of diverse modes of online health research. To appropriately avail themselves of such opportunities, however, nurse researchers must first address the significant ontological, epistemological, methodological, ethical, legal, and professional issues and concerns that nursing research in cyberspace raises.
AB - Web-based health research is a relatively new phenomenon. Its definition and conceptualization differs markedly as it is deployed within and across a complex array of discourses, with serious implications for nursing research and knowledge development. Web-based health research offers nurse researchers unique and abundant opportunities to provide leadership in the development and conduct of diverse modes of online health research. To appropriately avail themselves of such opportunities, however, nurse researchers must first address the significant ontological, epistemological, methodological, ethical, legal, and professional issues and concerns that nursing research in cyberspace raises.
KW - Cyberspace
KW - Discourses
KW - Nursing research
KW - Subjugated knowledges
KW - Web-based health research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=1542707365&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/00012272-200310000-00008
DO - 10.1097/00012272-200310000-00008
M3 - Review article
C2 - 14674579
AN - SCOPUS:1542707365
SN - 0161-9268
VL - 26
SP - 307
EP - 319
JO - Advances in Nursing Science
JF - Advances in Nursing Science
IS - 4
ER -