Journal Articles
Kohut, K, Cable, S, Ashokan, A,
Vicari, S, Ditchfield, H, Young, J, Bux, B, Lalloo, F (2026)
The evolution of hereditary cancer genetic counselling: mainstreaming, service redesign and patient experience in Lynch syndrome,
Familial Cancer, 25(3), 84, ISSN: 1389-9600. DOI:
10.1007/s10689-026-00597-6.
Özkula, SM, Prieto-Blanco, P, Caldeira, S, Kubrusly, A, Ditchfield, H,
Vicari, S, Guo, Y (2026)
“AMBIENT MISOGYNY”: POCKETS OF GENDERED HATE ACROSS CONTEXTS AND PLATFORMS,
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, ISSN: 2162-3317. DOI:
10.5210/spir.v2024i0.15399.
Vicari, S, Ditchfirld, H, Guo, Y, Morena, N, Dimya Htite, E, Ahisar, Y, Hayman, V, Rentschler, CA, Meguerditchian, AN, Holroyd, D, Baker, SA, Tiidenberg, KT, Liedtke, M, Schreiber, M, Hamper, J (2026)
HEALTH CREATOR: ANATOMY OF A FUZZY CONCEPT,
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, ISSN: 2162-3317. DOI:
10.5210/spir.v2024i0.15398.
Vicari, S and Ditchfield, H (2025)
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter,
New Media & Society, 27(6), pp.3658-3679, ISSN: 1461-4448. DOI:
10.1177/14614448241229048.
Ditchfield, H and
Vicari, S (2025)
Identity Roles and Sociality on TikTok: Performance in Hereditary Cancer Content (#BRCA and #Lynchsyndrome),
Social Media + Society, 11(2), 20563051251340862, ISSN: 2056-3051. DOI:
10.1177/20563051251340862.
Ditchfield, H and
Vicari, S (2025)
PERFORMING PREVIVORSHIP ONLINE: EXAMINING IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ON TIKTOK,
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, ISSN: 2162-3317. DOI:
10.5210/spir.v2024i0.13929.
Vicari, S, Ditchfield, H, Chuang, Y (2025)
Contemporary visualities of ill health: On the social (media) construction of disease regimes,
Sociology of Health & Illness, 47(1), e13846, ISSN: 0141-9889. DOI:
10.1111/1467-9566.13846.
Kohut, K, Speight, B, Young, J, Way, R, Wiggins, J, Monje-Garcia, L, Eccles, DM, Foster, C, Turner, L, Snape, K, Hanson, H, Dale, C, Duncombe, S, Gold, R, Patton, S, Rook, W, Stevens, R, Turner, L, Vale, F, White, H, Woodward, I, Worrall, S, Young, J, Barnett, L, Bartlett, M, Barwell, J, Bell, D, Bhinder, B, Bradford, M, Brain, L, Campbell, V, Clark, A, Clarke, E, Corbett, G, Chauhan, D, Cleaver, R, Coad, B, Coulson, A, Cowley, L, Crosskey, H, Cuthill, V, Dave, A, Davidson, R, Dugmore, C, Dunlop, J, Eccles, D, Elliot, C, Engelbrecht, C, Fernando, M, Foster, C, Freeman, A, Gibson, S, Gold, R, Gomes, J, Gorrie, J, Green, A, Halliday, D, Hanson, H, Hiscock, D, Holliday, D, Horton, E, Ingram, W, James, M, Jacobs-Pearson, M, Jaggard, C, Jewell, R, John, S, Johnes, A, Jones, L, Kharay, B, Kohut, K, Kulke, C, Large, J, Lewis, C, Lowry, A, MacParland, S, Mansell, M, Martin, C, Martin, R, McKeeve, C, McVeigh, T, Miles, T, Monahan, K, Monje-Garcia, L, Murray, A, Musgrave, H, Norman, G, Oborne, E, Ong, KR, Onyeador, N, Ostrowski, P, Pitfield, D, Raghavan, M, Rea, G, Reid, A, Salter, S, Scott, G, Scrace, C, Searle, C, Shanmugasundaram, M, Shepherd, S, Smith, K, Snadden, L, Snape, K, Snowsill, T, Speight, B, Springham, D, Stayner, B, Tilbrook, T, Torr, B, Tsoulaki, O, Turner, L,
Vicari, S, Walsh, H, Way, R, Westbury, S, White, H, Wiggins, J, Wilde, L, Woodward, E, Young, J (2024)
Co-design of patient information leaflets for germline predisposition to cancer: recommendations for clinical practice from the UK Cancer Genetics Group (UKCGG), Cancer Research UK (CRUK) funded CanGene-CanVar Programme and the Association of Genetic Nurse Counsellors (AGNC),
Journal of Medical Genetics, 61(2), pp.142-149, ISSN: 0022-2593. DOI:
10.1136/jmg-2023-109440.
Vicari, S and Kirby, D (2023)
Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: developing digital methods for cultural research,
Information, Communication & Society, 26(9), pp.1733-1755, ISSN: 1369-118X. DOI:
10.1080/1369118x.2022.2027498.
Vicari, S (2023)
The making of digital health citizenship,
Polis Italy, (1), pp.133-144, ISSN: 1120-9488. DOI:
10.1424/106956.
Vicari, S (2023)
Frame semantic grammars: Where frame analysis meets linguistics to study collective action frames,
Discourse Studies, 25(2), pp.309-318, ISSN: 1461-4456. DOI:
10.1177/14614456231154737.
Vicari, S (2023)
"YOU CAN'T SEE IT BUT IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH". OF PLATFORMS, POWER, AND THE INVISIBLE,
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, ISSN: 2162-3317. DOI:
10.5210/spir.v2022i0.13102.
Murru, MF and
Vicari, S (2021)
Memetising the pandemic: memes, covid-19 mundanity and political cultures,
Information, Communication & Society, 24(16), pp.2422-2441, ISSN: 1369-118X. DOI:
10.1080/1369118x.2021.1974518.
Yang, Z and
Vicari, S (2021)
The Pandemic across Platform Societies: Weibo and Twitter at the Outbreak of the Covid-19 Epidemic in China and the West,
Howard Journal of Communications, 32(5), pp.493-506, ISSN: 1064-6175. DOI:
10.1080/10646175.2021.1945510.
Murru, MF and
Vicari, S (2021)
BRINGING THE PANDEMIC HOME: MEMES AS LOCAL POLITICS AT TIMES OF GLOBAL CRISIS,
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, ISSN: 2162-3317. DOI:
10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12215.
Yang, Z and
Vicari, S (2021)
COVID-19 ACROSS PLATFORM SOCIETIES: EXPLORING THE PANDEMIC THROUGH WEIBO AND TWITTER,
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, ISSN: 2162-3317. DOI:
10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12264.
Vicari, S (2021)
Is it all about storytelling? Living and learning hereditary cancer on Twitter,
New Media & Society, 23(8), pp.2385-2408, ISSN: 1461-4448. DOI:
10.1177/1461444820926632.
Reilly, P and
Vicari, S (2021)
Organizational Hashtags During Times of Crisis: Analyzing the Broadcasting and Gatekeeping Dynamics of #PorteOuverte During the November 2015 Paris Terror Attacks,
Social Media + Society, 7(1), 2056305121995788, ISSN: 2056-3051. DOI:
10.1177/2056305121995788.
Vicari, S, Iannelli, L, Zurovac, E (2020)
Political hashtag publics and counter-visuality: a case study of #fertilityday in Italy,
Information, Communication & Society, 23(9), pp.1235-1254, ISSN: 1369-118X. DOI:
10.1080/1369118x.2018.1555271.
Vicari, S and Murru, MF (2020)
One Platform, a Thousand Worlds: On Twitter Irony in the Early Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy,
Social Media + Society, 6(3), 2056305120948254, ISSN: 2056-3051. DOI:
10.1177/2056305120948254.
Franzosi, R and
Vicari, S (2018)
What's in a Text?: Answers from Frame Analysis and Rhetoric for Measuring Meaning Systems and Argumentative Structures,
Rhetorica, 36(4), pp.393-429, ISSN: 0734-8584. DOI:
10.1525/rh.2018.36.4.393.
Franzosi, R and
Vicari, S (2018)
What’s in a Text?: Answers from Frame Analysis and Rhetoric for Measuring Meaning Systems and Argumentative Structures,
Rhetorica, 36(4), pp.393-429, ISSN: 0734-8584. DOI:
10.1353/rht.2018.0003.
Vicari, S (2017)
Twitter and Non-Elites: Interpreting Power Dynamics in the Life Story of the (#)BRCA Twitter Stream,
Social Media + Society, 3(3), p.2056305117733224, ISSN: 2056-3051. DOI:
10.1177/2056305117733224.
Vicari, S and Cappai, F (2016)
Health activism and the logic of connective action. A case study of rare disease patient organisations,
Information Communication & Society, 19(11), pp.1653-1671, ISSN: 1369-118X. DOI:
10.1080/1369118x.2016.1154587.
Vicari, S (2015)
Exploring the Cuban blogosphere: Discourse networks and informal politics,
New Media & Society, 17(9), pp.1492-1512, ISSN: 1461-4448. DOI:
10.1177/1461444814529285.
Vicari, S (2015)
The Interpretative Dimension of Transformative Events: Outrage Management and Collective Action Framing After the 2001 Anti-G8 Summit in Genoa,
Social Movement Studies, 14(5), pp.596-614, ISSN: 1474-2837. DOI:
10.1080/14742837.2014.995076.
Vicari, S (2014)
Blogging politics in Cuba: the framing of political discourse in the Cuban blogosphere,
Media Culture & Society, 36(7), pp.998-1015, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI:
10.1177/0163443714536082.
Vicari, S (2014)
Networks of Contention: The Shape of Online Transnationalism in Early Twenty-First Century Social Movement Coalitions,
Social Movement Studies, 13(1), pp.92-109, ISSN: 1474-2837. DOI:
10.1080/14742837.2013.832621.
Franzosi, R, Doyle, S, McClelland, LE, Putnam Rankin, C,
Vicari, S (2013)
Quantitative narrative analysis software options compared: PC-ACE and CAQDAS (ATLAS.ti, MAXqda, and NVivo),
Quality & Quantity, 47(6), pp.3219-3247, ISSN: 0033-5177. DOI:
10.1007/s11135-012-9714-3.
Vicari, S (2013)
Public reasoning around social contention: A case study of Twitter use in the Italian mobilization for global change,
Current Sociology, 61(4), pp.474-490, ISSN: 0011-3921. DOI:
10.1177/0011392113479747.
Franzosi, R, De Fazio, G,
Vicari, S (2012)
Ways of Measuring Agency,
Sociological Methodology, 42(1), pp.1-42, ISSN: 0081-1750. DOI:
10.1177/0081175012462370.
Vicari, S (2010)
Measuring collective action frames: A linguistic approach to frame analysis,
Poetics, 38(5), pp.504-525, ISSN: 0304-422X. DOI:
10.1016/j.poetic.2010.07.002.
