Abstract
Through the use of text mining and semantic network analysis, I identified patterns of supportive communication within online infertility support groups. Unlike previous studies of supportive messaging, this study moves beyond a dichotomy of informational and emotional support to explore the construction of supportive communication. I conducted a semantic network and rhetorical analysis of 60 of the top posts of all time from the r/Infertility subreddit, and found that supportive communication was enacted through de-personalizing the loss, validating anger, and accepting alternative routes to motherhood. This analysis suggests that supportive communication adopts and abandons medicalized logics.
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