Call for Papers 15 th APRIL CONFERENCE Humanity / Humanities Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University Kraków , 2 0 - 2 2 April 202 3 THEME SESSION: HEALTH KNOWLEDGE AND ONLINE COMMUNICATION SESSION ORGANISERS : Anna Tereszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University Magdalena Szczyrbak , Jagiellonian University Ramona Bongelli, University of Macerata Ilaria Riccioni, University of Macerata Alessia Bertolazzi, University of Macerata The constant evolution of online media and web technologies can be seen to influence all walks of life, modifying traditional practices and social relations. The effect of this evolution can be seen in the sphere of health communication as well. It is refl ected in the availability of new ways to communicate and new channels of interaction and dissemination of medical knowledge. A further change involves the democratization of health knowledge, the availability of medical information for laypersons, and the general increase in health awareness and health knowledg e levels. These changes contribute to the modification of the established roles and relations between medical experts on the one side and patients/laypersons on the other , and to the emergence of new discursive practices. Our session aims to bring together linguists, discourse analysts and communication scholars exploring various facets of online health communication and medical discourse. The session is conceived as a discussion forum for participants who adopt diverse research perspectives, including disc ourse analysis, conversation analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, media studies, multimodality , social semiotics , and psychology Suggested areas of scholarly discussion include, but are not limited to, the following: • Health communication in online c ontexts • Doctor - patient interaction in online contexts • Textual and multimodal identity creation in online health communication • Health narratives in online settings • Epistemic negotiation in online health communication • (Un)certainty of medical knowledge • Evaluation in online medical discourse • Evolution of medical genres • Reconfiguration and recontextualization of expert knowledge in online contexts • Popularization of medical knowledge • Cross - linguistic differences in online health communicatio n practices If you would like to participate in the session, please submit your proposals for 20 - minute papers (app. 200 words) together with short biographical notes (up to 100 words) via the submission portal at: https://april.confer.uj.edu.pl as well as send them to : anna.tereszkiewicz@uj.edu .pl Deadline for abstract submission: 31 December 202 2 Notifications of acceptance: 31 January 2023 Conference website: https://april.confer.uj.edu.pl A selection of conference papers will be published in an edited volume and/or a Scopus - indexed journal. This event is supported by the Jagiellonian University’s “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme, under Grant: H.2.11.2021.2