Tracing the Migration of Patient-Created Knowledge in Risk Communication of Long COVID

By integrating theories of genre, kairos, and spheres, this study argues that lay and scholar patients became alternative experts in the legitimization of Long COVID. These alternative experts grasped kairotic moments to address the risks they suffered by creating and mobilizing patient-created knowledge to migrate across spheres via genre changes. The findings reveal the knowledge migration trend through two case studies and provide implications for patients, experts, and institutions.