scholarly journals MediCare System – A social media platform for Iraq environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 3238-3249
Author(s):  
Sarmad Monadel Sabree Al-Gayar Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
System A ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Healthcare Process ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
General Architecture ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Media Applications

During the mobile technology's global expansion, the widespread use of internet-enabled smartphones on all countries and especially in Asia Minor/Iraqi community has increased dramatically, as mobile applications became a key area of interest among physicians and patients in this society. Also, there are applications available that help healthcare providers, but these applications have limited possibilities and don’t have communication, monitoring, or other functions of healthcare. Physicians and patients turn to social media applications in the healthcare process. If we speak about Asia Minor, especially Iraq there are very few applications and related research that facilitates electronic health. Therefore, due to the conditions and requirements of the Iraqi health environment a healthcare solution called "MediCare" system that provides a medical social platform that facilitates interaction between hospitals, clinics, physicians, and patients has been developed. In this paper we present the implementation of the MediCare system together with its general architecture.

scholarly journals The impact of social media on the performance of microfinance institutions in developing countries: a quantitative approach

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Daowd ◽  
Muhammad Mustafa Kamal ◽  
Tillal Eldabi ◽  
Ruaa Hasan ◽  
Farouk Missi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
The Impact

PurposeOver the last few decades, microfinance industry is argued to have played a constructive role in alleviating poverty level and providing the underprivileged with access to financial services. Statistics from the World Bank reveal that, currently, only 4% of the underprivileged have been served out of the 3 billion+ potential clients. Such results are due to several claims, particularly the operational and financial challenges faced by microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the constant flux inviting more attentions towards its performance. While explicit attention is given by many researchers towards mobile banking and information and communication technology (ICT) in improving the MFIs’ performance, the study on how social media, as a rapidly growing online phenomenon, can impact on the MFIs’ performance remains scarce. As such, this study aims to investigate this impact based on four dimensional performance indicators: efficiency, financial sustainability, portfolio quality and outreach.Design/methodology/approachA model is proposed and tested to ascertain the relationship between social media applications and organisational performance. In so doing, web-based questionnaires have been used to collect data from MFI employees in developing countries. Results reveal a significant influence of the social media over the MFIs’ performance, offering valuable insights into both researchers and practitioners in the domain of microfinance, as well as social media—conforming that the adoption of social media as marketing, advertising and communication tools may significantly improve the MFIs’ performance.FindingsThe results demonstrate that there is a positive and significant impact of social media use within microfinance on the key indicators of MFIs. They also show that the highest impact of social media usage within the microfinance is on the portfolio quality. In addition, it was found that marketing and advertising; communication and sales and distribution are the main areas where social media is able to support while social networking websites are the most popular platforms employed in MFIs.Originality/valueThis study adds to the existing literature few theoretical and practical aspects. First, this study developed a model for assessing the value of social media as a new phenomenon within this type of organisation. Second, it offers microfinance sponsors, managers and policy makers with a frame of reference to understand what social media platform can be deployed for each purpose. Third, with the identification of the main MFIs’ performance indicators, this research provided a reference of performance measurement guide for microfinance industry when assessing different technological employment.

The Role of Social Media for Knowledge Dissemination in Medical Tourism

2017 ◽  
pp. 132-161
Author(s):  
Anita Medhekar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Knowledge Dissemination ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Public Health Communication ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Applications

The use of social media for information dissemination for education, environmental movement, natural disasters, emergency, election campaign, grass root movements, non-profit organisations, public health communication, and marketing for health promotion, e-governance, and political revolutions is well known. The economic significance of the health and medical tourism sector in the global healthcare business should not be underestimated. Internet is playing a leading role as a platform for the dissemination of medical tourism business information. In this century, more and more actual and potential tourists are accessing the internet and social media applications to find and disseminate factual information regarding medical tourism facilitators, destinations, super-speciality hospitals, specialist doctors and nurses, quality and accreditation, accommodation facility, cost, waiting period for surgery and sharing their positive and negative experiences to inform potential medical tourists. Healthcare providers and medical tourists acquire information, create, collaborate, communicate and disseminate healthcare and medical tourism related information through the Word-of-Social-Media (WoSM) tools such as FaceBook, Flickr, Twitter, Blogs, Forums, YouTube patient testimonials, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Photo and video sharing, Alexa and mobile applications. Therefore social media has a great potential as an information source and a knowledge dissemination tool for tourism industry to network and create clusters locally and globally, to exploit new innovative technologies for interaction and collaboration between the healthcare providers as well as the medical tourists. The main contribution of this chapter is to explore and discuss the role and use of social media applications for knowledge dissemination by hospitals and the medical tourists in the global business of medical tourism in India.

scholarly journals Dampak Media Sosial terhadap Usaha Kecil dan Menengah (UKM) Sentra Industri Keramik Plered, Kabupaten Purwakarta

InterKomunika ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Danang Sanggabuwana ◽  
Susi Andrini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
Industrial Center

Abstract .The development of social media makes it recommended that social media become the most important part in developing and advancing its business especially in the field of promotion, marketing and marketing as a whole. The existence of today's social media applications has become the most efficient and effective tool for ceramic SMEs in Ceramic Plered Industrial Center, Purwakarta District, and today most of the SMEs have followed the digital era by using social media platform for marketing communications, advertisement, product publicity ceramics and services they provide. They create fan pages for followers to make communication fast, even in different cities or countries SME ceramic actors can warmly welcome advice and opinions that help in improving their business. Based on the review that there is a positive impact although there is also a negative impact of social media applications on the development of business SMEs ceramic entrepreneurs but not undo the intention to advance its business, and motivated to use this platform.Keywords: media, social media

Entrepreneurs’ use of internet and social media applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Mack ◽  
Lisa Marie-Pierre ◽  
Kyle Redican
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
Internet And Social Media

scholarly journals Exploring the Characteristics and Behaviors of Nurses Who Have Attained Microcelebrity Status on Instagram: Content Analysis

10.2196/16540 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. e16540
Author(s):  
Hanna Kerr ◽  
Richard Booth ◽  
Kimberley Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Background Instagram is a social media platform that enables users to share images and videos worldwide. Some nurses have used Instagram to document their experiences as a nurse and have subsequently gained microcelebrity status—that is, a user who purposefully seeks to amass a substantive Web-based following and has become recognized as a niche area of interest. Objective This study aimed to identify the characteristics and behaviors of microcelebrity nurses who act as influencers on Instagram and use their nursing profile to gain attention and presence on the Web. Methods A qualitative, exploratory, nonparticipatory content analysis of media and text generated by a purposeful sample of 10 registered nurses who use Instagram and sustain a definable microcelebrity status was conducted. In this study, manifest and latent data were examined to gain an understanding of the characteristics and behaviors of nurses who have attained microcelebrity status on Instagram. Results Data analysis revealed 5 themes of Instagram posts: (1) engaging Instagram users, (2) educational opportunities and insights, (3) nursing-related humor, (4) emotions experienced by nurses, and (5) media and narratives including patient details or work context. Messages were primarily positive in nature; however, multiple potential privacy, ethical, and professional issues were noted throughout the posted content. Conclusions The findings of this study help to expand the current knowledge related to the use of social media platforms such as Instagram, especially in regard to the emergence of nurses who use this form of technology to achieve or maintain a microcelebrity status. This study calls for additional research on nurses’ attainment of microcelebrity status on social media as well as further policy development to adequately prepare nurses to navigate social media.

scholarly journals Exploring the Characteristics and Behaviors of Nurses Who Have Attained Microcelebrity Status on Instagram: Content Analysis (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Kerr ◽  
Richard Booth ◽  
Kimberley Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Use Of Social Media

BACKGROUND Instagram is a social media platform that enables users to share images and videos worldwide. Some nurses have used Instagram to document their experiences as a nurse and have subsequently gained microcelebrity status—that is, a user who purposefully seeks to amass a substantive Web-based following and has become recognized as a niche area of interest. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify the characteristics and behaviors of microcelebrity nurses who act as influencers on Instagram and use their nursing profile to gain attention and presence on the Web. METHODS A qualitative, exploratory, nonparticipatory content analysis of media and text generated by a purposeful sample of 10 registered nurses who use Instagram and sustain a definable microcelebrity status was conducted. In this study, manifest and latent data were examined to gain an understanding of the characteristics and behaviors of nurses who have attained microcelebrity status on Instagram. RESULTS Data analysis revealed 5 themes of Instagram posts: (1) engaging Instagram users, (2) educational opportunities and insights, (3) nursing-related humor, (4) emotions experienced by nurses, and (5) media and narratives including patient details or work context. Messages were primarily positive in nature; however, multiple potential privacy, ethical, and professional issues were noted throughout the posted content. CONCLUSIONS The findings of this study help to expand the current knowledge related to the use of social media platforms such as Instagram, especially in regard to the emergence of nurses who use this form of technology to achieve or maintain a microcelebrity status. This study calls for additional research on nurses’ attainment of microcelebrity status on social media as well as further policy development to adequately prepare nurses to navigate social media.

Examining TikTok’s potential for community-engaged, digital knowledge mobilization with trans and nonbinary communities: A tutorial (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinnon Ross MacKinnon ◽  
Hannah Kia ◽  
Ashley Lacombe-Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Barriers To Healthcare ◽  
Digital Knowledge ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Health Information Sharing ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge

UNSTRUCTURED Social media are increasingly leveraged by researchers to engage in public debates and to rapidly disseminate research results to healthcare providers, healthcare users, policymakers, educators, and the general public. This tutorial article contributes to growing literature on the use of social media for digital knowledge mobilization, drawing particular attention to TikTok and its unique potential for collaborative knowledge mobilization with underserved communities who experience barriers to healthcare and health inequities. Setting the TikTok platform apart from other social media are unique audio-visual video editing tools, together with an impactful algorithm, making possible knowledge dissemination and exchange with large global audiences. As an exemplar, we discuss digital knowledge mobilization with transgender and nonbinary populations, a population who experience barriers to healthcare and who are engaged in significant peer-to-peer health information sharing online. To demonstrate, analytics data from 13 selected TikTok videos on the topic of gender-affirming medicine (e.g., cross-sex hormones and surgeries) research are presented to illustrate how knowledge is disseminated within the trans community via TikTok. Considerations for researchers planning to use TikTok for digital knowledge mobilization and other related community engagement are also discussed. These include: the limitations of TikTok analytics data for measuring knowledge mobilization; trans population-specific concerns related to community safety on social media; barriers to internet access; the spread of disinformation; and commercialization and intellectual property issues. This article concludes that TikTok is an innovative social media platform presenting possibilities to achieve transformative, community-engaged knowledge mobilization between researchers, underserved healthcare users, and their healthcare providers—all of which are necessary to achieve better healthcare and population health outcomes.

The Role of Social Media for Knowledge Dissemination in Medical Tourism

2017 ◽  
pp. 25-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Medhekar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Knowledge Dissemination ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Public Health Communication ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Applications

The use of social media for information dissemination for education, environmental movement, natural disasters, emergency, election campaign, grass root movements, non-profit organisations, public health communication, and marketing for health promotion, e-governance, and political revolutions is well known. The economic significance of the health and medical tourism sector in the global healthcare business should not be underestimated. Internet is playing a leading role as a platform for the dissemination of medical tourism business information. In this century, more and more actual and potential tourists are accessing the internet and social media applications to find and disseminate factual information regarding medical tourism facilitators, destinations, super-speciality hospitals, specialist doctors and nurses, quality and accreditation, accommodation facility, cost, waiting period for surgery and sharing their positive and negative experiences to inform potential medical tourists. Healthcare providers and medical tourists acquire information, create, collaborate, communicate and disseminate healthcare and medical tourism related information through the Word-of-Social-Media (WoSM) tools such as FaceBook, Flickr, Twitter, Blogs, Forums, YouTube patient testimonials, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Photo and video sharing, Alexa and mobile applications. Therefore social media has a great potential as an information source and a knowledge dissemination tool for tourism industry to network and create clusters locally and globally, to exploit new innovative technologies for interaction and collaboration between the healthcare providers as well as the medical tourists. The main contribution of this chapter is to explore and discuss the role and use of social media applications for knowledge dissemination by hospitals and the medical tourists in the global business of medical tourism in India.

Effects of Cyber Bullying on Girls of Sindh University

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Abdul Razaque Chhachhar ◽  
Aiman Khursheed
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
Girl Students ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of cyber bullying on girls of University of Sindh, Jamshoro. There are many victims who were facing many problems due to extra and frequent use of Internet. Mostly girls have been targeted in the field of social media. The study focused only the girl students of university of Sindh, Jamshoro. Study showed that how cybercrimes effects on a girl’s students life, for this selection of respondents was very important, researcher conduct survey with 100 girl students from faculty of social sciences, University of Sindh, Jamshoro. The researcher after analyzing data found out that the girl students always use social media for communication purpose, and also interested in educating themselves by using of social media applications regarding harassment and bullying. The study has concluded that majority of the girl students believe that social media has created problems in their daily life. Further, study found that majority of the girls was to spread awareness regarding the issue of bullying.

Sosyal medyada Suriye’li sığınmacılara yönelik algı: bir sözlük değerlendirmesi

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Servet Kardeş ◽  
Çağla Banko ◽  
Berrin Akman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Made In

Bu araştırmada sığınmacılara yönelik paylaşımların yapıldığı sosyal medyada yer alan sözlüklerden birinde sığınmacılara yönelik algıya bakılmıştır. Yöntem olarak nitel desende olan bu çalışmada, bir sosyal medya sitesinde yer alan paylaşımlar içerik analizi yoluyla derinlemesine incelenip yorumlanmıştır. Araştırmanın sonucunda sosyal medya kullanıcılarının sığınmacıları büyük bir güvensizlik ortamı ve huzursuzluk yaratan bireyler olarak gördükleri saptanmış, sığınmacılarla yaşanan deneyimlerin ve medyadaki haberlerin bu düşüncelerin oluşmasında etkisinin olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bunun yanında sosyal medya kullanıcılarının devletin sığınmacılar konusunda yanlış politika izlediğini düşündükleri ve sığınmacılar için etkili bir planlama yapılmadığını ifade ettikleri görülmüştür. Çalışmanın sonuçları doğrultusunda medyada sığınmacılar hakkında çıkan haberlerde olumsuz ve şiddet temalı haberlerin azaltılması, Suriyeli sığınmacıların durumu, sahip oldukları haklar ve topluma yansımaları hakkında doğru ve bilgilendirici kamu spotları hazırlanması ayrıca sığınmacıların topluma entegre olma sürecinin her basamağında daha planlı ve etkili bir yol izlenmesi önerilebilir.ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHPerceptions about Syrian refugees on social media: an evaluation of a social media platformIn this research, posts which are about Syrian refugees were published in a social media platform, called as “sözlük” were investigated. The research is a qualitative research. The posts in this platform are analyzed with content analysis method. According to results of analyses, social media users see Syrian refugees as people who create an insecure and a restless environment. The experiences people had with them and news have an effect on this view. In addition, social media users think that government made inappropriate policies and ineffective plans about Syrian refugees. It is suggested negative news about Syrian refugees should be decreased and government should make safer policies. In addition, adaptation of refugees to society should be made in more planned and effective way.

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