Abstract
Physicians’ stories of their illness attempt to bridge the divide between a professional doctor and a patient’s narrative by combining both the versions. This research paper undertakes a narratological analysis of latest illness narrative written by a physician-turned-patient Paul Kalanithi in his When Breath Becomes Air. The present study also finds out the role reversal happening between a clinician, patient and writer. It further aims to analyze Paul Kalanithi’s autobiographical memoir as a literary narrative of his last stage fatal lung cancer. The paper highlights the link between literature and the medical world and in this way generates a better understanding of the present interdisciplinary relation of both the disciplines i.e. literature and medicine. This research is qualitative and descriptive while textual analysis has been used as a research method. This study ends with the findings and recommendations for further research.
Highlights
Social media use which is reaching its peak among adults of the developed world for participation in digital political spheres (Correa et al, 2010) has become the part and parcel of the life of urban citizens of developing world for political engagement (Poushter et al, 2018), and this new political behavior has accelerated the process of political communication engaging participants in commenting and sharing of political content (Cherubini and Nielsen, 2016)
The results demonstrated that the political engagement of individuals through social media is completely mediating the relationship between social media use and political party-based polarization, leadership-based polarization, and issue-based polarization
Social media is serving as the platform for the dissemination of political information
Summary
Social media use which is reaching its peak among adults of the developed world for participation in digital political spheres (Correa et al, 2010) has become the part and parcel of the life of urban citizens of developing world for political engagement (Poushter et al, 2018), and this new political behavior has accelerated the process of political communication engaging participants in commenting and sharing of political content (Cherubini and Nielsen, 2016). In the 2018 elections of Pakistan, a tremendous surge was found in the use of social media due to its polyvocality; all leading political parties, renowned and active candidates, political workers, and even the supporters exploited this ubiquitous source of communication, Facebook and Twitter, to achieve their goals. They propagated the agendas and manifesto of their parties and lead campaigns against the opponents by criticizing their political and personal offenses (Jarral, 2018). This study has attempted to explain the relationship between social media use and political polarization by examining adults’ political engagement on Facebook and Twitter
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