scholarly journals Twitter Users with Access to Academic Library Services Request Health Sciences Literature through Social Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Margaret Stovold
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
The Uk

A Review of: Swab, M., & Romme, K. (2016). Scholarly sharing via Twitter: #icanhazpdf requests for health sciences literature. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 37(1), 6-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5596/c16-009 Abstract Objective – To analyze article sharing requests for health sciences literature on Twitter, received through the #icanhazpdf protocol. Design – Social media content analysis. Setting – Twitter. Subjects – 302 tweets requesting health sciences articles with the #icanhazpdf tag. Methods – The authors used a subscription service called RowFeeder to collect public tweets posted with the hashtag #icanhazpdf between February and April 2015. Rowfeeder recorded the Twitter user name, location, date and time, URL, and content of the tweet. The authors excluded all retweets and then each reviewed one of two sets. They recorded the geographic region and affiliation of the requestor, whether the tweet was a request or comment, type of material requested, how the item was identified, and if the subject of the request was health or non-health. Health requests were further classified using the Scopus subject category of the journal. A journal could be classified with more than one category. Any uncertainties during the coding process were resolved by both authors reviewing the tweet and reaching a consensus. Main results – After excluding all the retweets and comments, 1079 tweets were coded as heath or non-health related. A final set of 302 health related requests were further analyzed. Almost all the requests were for journal articles (99%, n=300). The highest-ranking subject was medicine (64.9%, n=196), and the lowest was dentistry (0.3%, n=1). The most common article identifier was a link to the publisher’s website (50%, n=152), followed by a link to the PubMed record (22%, n=67). Articles were also identified by citation information (11%, n=32), DOI (5%, n=14), a direct request to an individual (3%, n=9), another method (2%, n=6), or multiple identifiers (7%, n=22). The majority of requests originated from the UK and Ireland (29.1%, n=88), the United States (26.5%, n=80), and the rest of Europe (19.2%, n=58. Many requests came from people with affiliations to an academic institution (45%, n=136). These included librarians (3.3%, n=10), students (13.6%, n=41), and academics (28.1%, n=85). When tweets of unknown affiliation were excluded (n=117), over 70% of the requests were from people with academic links. Other requesters included journalists, clinicians, non-profit organisations, patients, and industry employees. The authors examined comments in the tweets to gain some understanding of the reasons for seeking articles through #icanhazpdf, although this was not the primary focus of their study. A preliminary examination of the comments suggested that users value the ease, convenience, and the ability to connect with other researchers that social media offers. Conclusion – The authors concluded that the number of requests for health sciences literature through this channel is modest, but health librarians should be aware of #icanhazpdf as another method through which their users might seek to obtain articles. The authors recommend further research into the reasons why users sometimes choose social media over the library to obtain articles.

scholarly journals Moving Away from Category Exclusivity Deals to Sponsorship Activation Platforms: The Case of the Ryder Cup

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1151
Author(s):  
Yunchao Bai ◽  
Brian H. Yim ◽  
John Breedlove ◽  
James J. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
Standard Life ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

As a biennial event, the Ryder Cup is a men’s golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. Ernst & Young (EY) and Standard Life Investments (SLI), who are in same business category (i.e., financial services), have served as official partners of the event in recent years. While the two firms are willing to move away from the traditional sponsorship practices of category exclusivity deals, both have been able to achieve significant success through their collaborative efforts in activating their sponsorships. This is a new, fascinating phenomenon in both sponsorship concept and practice. Through an exploratory inductive inquiry process, in this study we conduct a case analysis by examining the sponsorship activations of EY and SLI at the 2014 Ryder Cup event held in the UK. The findings demonstrate that social media plays an impactful role in the companies’ ability to engage target audiences. EY used the Ryder Cup captain as a brand ambassador, who embodied its sponsorship theme of leadership and teamwork. SLI focused on running advertising campaigns to build company image and increase brand awareness.

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media and Depression. ‘Patient’ Autonomy Revisited

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 133-133
Author(s):  
Regina Mueller ◽  
◽  
Sebastian Laacke ◽  
Georg Schomerus ◽  
Sabine Salloch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Patient Autonomy ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Using Data

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly being developed and various applications are already used in medical practice. This development promises improvements in prediction, diagnostics and treatment decisions. As one example, in the field of psychiatry, AI systems can already successfully detect markers of mental disorders such as depression. By using data from social media (e.g. Instagram or Twitter), users who are at risk of mental disorders can be identified. This potential of AI-based depression detectors (AIDD) opens chances, such as quick and inexpensive diagnoses, but also leads to ethical challenges especially regarding users’ autonomy. The focus of the presentation is on autonomy-related ethical implications of AI systems using social media data to identify users with a high risk of suffering from depression. First, technical examples and potential usage scenarios of AIDD are introduced. Second, it is demonstrated that the traditional concept of patient autonomy according to Beauchamp and Childress does not fully account for the ethical implications associated with AIDD. Third, an extended concept of “Health-Related Digital Autonomy” (HRDA) is presented. Conceptual aspects and normative criteria of HRDA are discussed. As a result, HRDA covers the elusive area between social media users and patients. "

scholarly journals Twitter, Telepractice, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Social Media Content Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Kristen Weidner ◽  
Joneen Lowman ◽  
Anne Fleischer ◽  
Kyle Kosik ◽  
Peyton Goodbread ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Twitter Users

Purpose Telepractice was extensively utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is known about issues experienced during the wide-scale rollout of a service delivery model that was novel to many. Social media research is a way to unobtrusively analyze public communication, including during a health crisis. We investigated the characteristics of tweets about telepractice through the lens of an established health technology implementation framework. Results can help guide efforts to support and sustain telehealth beyond the pandemic context. Method We retrieved a historical Twitter data set containing tweets about telepractice from the early months of the pandemic. Tweets were analyzed using a concurrent mixed-methods content analysis design informed by the nonadoption, abandonment, scale-up, spread, and sustainability (NASSS) framework. Results Approximately 2,200 Twitter posts were retrieved, and 820 original tweets were analyzed qualitatively. Volume of tweets about telepractice increased in the early months of the pandemic. The largest group of Twitter users tweeting about telepractice was a group of clinical professionals. Tweet content reflected many, but not all, domains of the NASSS framework. Conclusions Twitter posting about telepractice increased during the pandemic. Although many tweets represented topics expected in technology implementation, some represented phenomena were potentially unique to speech-language pathology. Certain technology implementation topics, notably sustainability, were not found in the data. Implications for future telepractice implementation and further research are discussed.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Rachel F. Seidman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Barriers And Challenges ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Feminist Work

Seidman describes the origins of the social media called Who Needs Feminism and how that led her to undertake oral history interviews with feminist activists around the United States. She explains that her focus is on people who came of age during and after the anti-feminist backlash of the 1980s. Her interviews are all people who earn their living or center their major activist commitments and actions in feminist work, and include non-profit leaders, writers, journalists, philanthropists, labor unionists¬¬, budding politicians, media professionals, and students. They share a fundamental belief that women still face barriers and challenges based on their gender, and that laws, policies, attitudes and behaviors need to change in order to reach the goal of gender equity. She discusses narrators general rejection of the construct different “waves” of feminism; how the rise of social media as has reshaped feminist activism in both positive and negative ways, with special attention to Twitter and tensions within the movement that arise there; feminists’ goals and strategies; and how these interviews reveal the different ways that feminism has unfolded across the life arc of her interviewees. Seidman argues these interviews help explain the rise of the Women’s March on Washington and the #MeToo movement.

scholarly journals Physical Education Teachers’ Experiences With Remote Instruction During the Initial Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Kevin Mercier ◽  
Erin Centeio ◽  
Alex Garn ◽  
Heather Erwin ◽  
Risto Marttinen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
School Level ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Access To Technology ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Survey Responses

This study investigated physical education (PE) teachers’ experiences with remote instruction in the United States during the initial outbreak of COVID-19. PE teachers (n = 4,362) from all 50 states completed a survey identifying their experiences with remote instruction in May, 2020. Survey responses were analyzed by geographic region, district type, and school level. Teachers reported having students submit assignments (51% yes), using video instruction (37% yes), being less effective when instructing remotely (20% yes), and emphasizing student outcomes focused on health-related fitness (32% yes), and physical activity value/enjoyment (43% yes). Access to technology (40% yes) and required student assignments (43% yes) were lowest among teachers from the South. Rural teachers reported the least access to technology (37% yes) and rated themselves as least effective (24% yes). Secondary level teachers reported the highest percentage of required assignments (84% yes). Teachers’ responses identify unique challenges to delivering equitable and effective remote PE instruction.

scholarly journals Public Opinions towards COVID-19 in California and New York on Twitter

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueting Wang ◽  
Canruo Zou ◽  
Zidian Xie ◽  
Dongmei Li
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
New York State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Opinions ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Negative Sentiment ◽  
Over Time

Background: With the pandemic of COVID-19 and the release of related policies, discussions about the COVID-19 are widespread online. Social media becomes a reliable source for understanding public opinions toward this virus outbreak. Objective: This study aims to explore public opinions toward COVID-19 on social media by comparing the differences in sentiment changes and discussed topics between California and New York in the United States. Methods: A dataset with COVID-19-related Twitter posts was collected from March 5, 2020 to April 2, 2020 using Twitter streaming API. After removing any posts unrelated to COVID-19, as well as posts that contain promotion and commercial information, two individual datasets were created based on the geolocation tags with tweets, one containing tweets from California state and the other from New York state. Sentiment analysis was conducted to obtain the sentiment score for each COVID-19 tweet. Topic modeling was applied to identify top topics related to COVID-19. Results: While the number of COVID-19 cases increased more rapidly in New York than in California in March 2020, the number of tweets posted has a similar trend over time in both states. COVID-19 tweets from California had more negative sentiment scores than New York. There were some fluctuations in sentiment scores in both states over time, which might correlate with the policy changes and the severity of COVID-19 pandemic. The topic modeling results showed that the popular topics in both California and New York states are similar, with "protective measures" as the most prevalent topic associated with COVID-19 in both states. Conclusions: Twitter users from California had more negative sentiment scores towards COVID-19 than Twitter users from New York. The prevalent topics about COVID-19 discussed in both states were similar with some slight differences.

scholarly journals Tailoring in the digital era: Stimulating dialogues on health topics in collaboration with social media influencers

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 205520761882152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roel O Lutkenhaus ◽  
Jeroen Jansz ◽  
Martine PA Bouman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Potential Collaboration ◽  
Specific Health

In today’s media landscape, audiences increasingly turn to online communities for media consumption and to exchange information about specific niche interests such as health-related topics. This calls for a segmented approach in which interventions are targeted at online communities, tailored to their specific cultures and health-related perceptions, and leverage the dynamics of conversation and social influence in online networks. Strategies drawn from the field of influencer marketing provide interesting opportunities to reach and engage with audiences in a personally relevant manner, including with those who may disagree with an intervention’s message. This article reflects on what health communicators might learn from influencer strategies and proposes digital methods to target and tailor health communication in the digital era. More concretely, we present methods to: (a) identify online communities engaging on a specific health issue; (b) map community specific cultures and health-related perceptions; and (c) identify influencers as potential collaboration partners. As such, we adopt a slightly different take on tailoring by putting the creative and cultural competences of social influencers central, and by aligning our methods with a media mapping protocol to create influencer strategies that are tailored to the cultures and health-related perceptions of multiple online audience segments. We illustrate the potential of these methods with a study of how vaccination is discussed among Dutch Twitter users.

Understanding the Lived Experience of Patients with Melanoma: Real-World Evidence Generated through a European Social Media Listening Analysis (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyoti Chauhan ◽  
Sathyaraj Aasaithambi ◽  
Iván Márquez-Rodas ◽  
Luigi Formisano ◽  
Sophie Papa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Patient Journey ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Channels

BACKGROUND Cutaneous melanoma is an aggressive malignancy that is proposed to account for 90% of skin cancer-related mortality. Individuals with melanoma experience both physical and psychological impacts associated with their diagnosis and treatment. Health-related information is being increasingly accessed and shared by stakeholders on social media platforms. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess how individuals living with melanoma use social media to discuss their needs and provide their perceptions of the disease, from across 14 European countries. METHODS Social media sources including Twitter, forums, and blogs were searched using predefined search strings of keywords relating to melanoma. Manual and automated relevancy approaches filtered the extracted data for content that provided patient-centric insights. This contextualized data was then mined for insightful concepts around symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, impacts, and the lived experiences of melanoma. RESULTS A total of 182,000 posts related to melanoma were identified between November 2018‒November 2020. Following exclusion of irrelevant posts and using random sampling methodology, 864 posts were identified as relevant to the study objectives. Of the social media channels included, Twitter was the most commonly used, followed by forums and blogs. Most posts originated from the UK (38%) and Spain (16%). Sixty-two percent of relevant posts were categorized as originating from individuals with melanoma. The most frequently discussed melanoma-related topics were treatment (55%), diagnosis and tests (33%), and remission (24%). The majority of treatment discussions were about surgery (67%), followed by immunotherapy (12%). In total, 255 posts discussed the impacts of melanoma, which included emotional burden (70%), physical impacts (24%), effects on social life (17%), and financial impacts (4%). CONCLUSIONS Findings from this study highlight how melanoma stakeholders discuss key concepts associated with the condition on social media, adding to the conceptual model of the patient journey. This social media listening approach is a powerful tool in exploring melanoma stakeholder perspectives, providing insights that can be used to corroborate existing data and inform future studies.

scholarly journals Knowing the Tweeters: Deriving Sociologically Relevant Demographics from Twitter

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Sloan ◽  
Jeffrey Morgan ◽  
William Housley ◽  
Matthew Williams ◽  
Adam Edwards ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Uk

A perennial criticism regarding the use of social media in social science research is the lack of demographic information associated with naturally occurring mediated data such as that produced by Twitter. However the fact that demographics information is not explicit does not mean that it is not implicitly present. Utilising the Cardiff Online Social Media ObServatory (COSMOS) this paper suggests various techniques for establishing or estimating demographic data from a sample of more than 113 million Twitter users collected during July 2012. We discuss in detail the methods that can be used for identifying gender and language and illustrate that the proportion of males and females using Twitter in the UK reflects the gender balance observed in the 2011 Census. We also expand on the three types of geographical information that can be derived from Tweets either directly or by proxy and how spatial information can be used to link social media with official curated data. Whilst we make no grand claims about the representative nature of Twitter users in relation to the wider UK population, the derivation of demographic data demonstrates the potential of new social media (NSM) for the social sciences. We consider this paper a clarion call and hope that other researchers test the methods we suggest and develop them further.

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