Using Social Media for Clinical Research: A White Paper from the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Goldberg ◽  
Rochelle K. Rosen ◽  
Don S. Dizon ◽  
Kirsten J. Langdon ◽  
Natalie M. Davoodi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Media Integration ◽  
The Way ◽  
Held Back

UNSTRUCTURED Social media integration into research has increased and 92% of American social media users state they would share their data with researchers. Yet, the potential of this data to transform health outcomes and the way clinical research is performed has been held back. The use of these technologies in research is dependent on investigators’ awareness of its potential and their ability to innovate within regulatory and institutional guidelines. The Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health has launched an initiative to address these challenges and provide a framework to expand social media use in clinical research.

Assessing Social Media Use in Instruction and Marketing

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ashley Wright Joe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Revenue Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Library Use ◽  
Faculty And Staff ◽  
The Way

Assessment is increasingly important for libraries to address, as it speaks to justification for funding and support from the larger university. Many university budget models now require departments and colleges to be self-funding, whereas the library does not have traditional revenue sources. Statistics, including retention impact, encourage faculty and staff to promote library use to their students and encourage departments and colleges to support funding the library. This chapter explores best practices for assessing social media use in the context of instruction and marketing. It outlines the reasons for implementing an assessment plan as well as the steps necessary to successfully assess social media use, starting with outlining the specific goals for social media use, all the way through review and modification of the social media plan.

scholarly journals Association of Social Media Use With Social Well-Being, Positive Mental Health, and Self-Rated Health: Disentangling Routine Use From Emotional Connection to Use

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 69S-80S ◽  
Author(s):  
Mesfin A. Bekalu ◽  
Rachel F. McCloud ◽  
K. Viswanath
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Dose Effect ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Health Related

Most studies addressing social media use as a normal social behavior with positive or negative effects on health-related outcomes have conceptualized and measured social media use and its effects in terms of dose–effect relations. These studies focus on measuring frequency and duration of use, and have seldom considered users’ emotional connections to social media use and the effects associated with such connections. By using a scale with two dimensions capturing users’ integration of social media use into their social routines and their emotional connection to the sites’ use, the present study has brought preliminary evidence that may help map where social media use, as a normal social behavior, may be considered beneficial or harmful. Data from a nationally representative sample ( n = 1,027) of American adults showed that while routine use is associated with positive health outcomes, emotional connection to social media use is associated with negative health outcomes. These associations have been consistent across three health-related outcomes: social well-being, positive mental health, and self-rated health. The data also showed that the strength of the positive and negative associations of routine use and emotional connection with the health outcomes varies across socioeconomic and racial/ethnic population subgroups. Our findings suggest that the link between social media use and health may not only be captured by and explained in terms of conventional dose–effect approaches but may also require a more sophisticated conceptualization and measurement of the social media use behavior.

#fernweh #wanderlust #explore: Reise- »Erzählungen« auf Instagram

Rhetorik ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Kuhlhüser
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Communicative Patterns ◽  
The Way

AbstractNowadays, we live in mediatized environments, which are more and more shaped by visual means of expression. Visual social media platforms, such as Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr, Pinterest and Snapchat, are now the tools of communication and self-representation - especially for the younger generations. How users of these visual social media use hashtags and pictures in a rhetorical way to realize their personal representation is shown in this article by analyzing ›travel-narrations‹ of public accounts on Instagram. After a short theoretical approach, which includes the application of the strategic rhetorical process on the social practices on Instagram, the hashtag and the picture are characterized as rhetorical instruments. The analysis showed that there are specific practices of idealized self-representation as a certain type of traveler and rhetorical-communicative patterns, concerning the way hashtags are applied and pictures are uploaded by the users. The result is that even on a mainly visual platform, like Instagram, pictures as a form of communication are too undefined without the textual component in form of hashtags, which are essential contextgiving resources. Thus, the successful realization of the self-representation includes both communication forms, which dialectically build meaning together.

scholarly journals The Influence of Social Media on the Empathy Levels of Chinese Secondary Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Chen Shen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Students First ◽  
Different Content ◽  
The Way

Social media today exerts a substantial impact on how people view various social issues, especially among secondary students, the heaviest users of social media. This paper, based on empirical studies on the time and frequency of teenagers’ social media use, as well as the way they use social media to "follow" certain topics, attempts to address how social media influences the levels of empathy in secondary students. First-hand data of questionnaires and interviews are collected among secondary students in Foshan, Guangdong, China. The data is used to analyze the extent to which using different media platforms or following different content can result in different empathy levels.

scholarly journals Youth Social Media Use and Health Outcomes: #diggingdeeper

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-142
Author(s):  
Elissa C. Kranzler ◽  
Amy Bleakley
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use

Maintaining Relationships Through Social Media and the Way Forward

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-167
Author(s):  
Richard H. Afedzie ◽  
Stanford Nartey ◽  
James Aller
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Way

This paper examines the influence of social media in our global political, social, and business landscape. It underscores the argument that the value of social media in our 21st century social and business lifestyles cannot be overlooked. It explores some of the ways in which social media has shaped and positively maintained friendship, dating, and family relationships. It also highlights some of the growing challenges and emerging moral risks associated with unregulated social media prevalence in the society and offers ways to minimize threats posed by unfettered social media use in the society.

scholarly journals Why do politicians use Facebook and Twitter the way they do? The influence of perceived audience expectations

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-34
Author(s):  
Ole Kelm
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Party Size ◽  
Minor Parties ◽  
The Way

Politicians’ social media use affects their relationship with citizens. For example, politicians are better evaluated when they communicate interactively. However, they mostly use social media to broadcast information to their audience. This study asks why politicians use Facebook and Twitter the way they do. The study contends that politicians want to satisfy their audiences’ expectations, to get favorable reactions and increase their visibility, and that politicians from different parties have different audiences who have different expectations for how politicians should communicate. Data from two surveys conducted among national (n = 118) and local (n = 859) German politicians show that politicians’ Facebook and Twitter communication is strongly oriented to their perceptions of their audiences’ expectations. The party size did not influence politicians’ Twitter communication, but their Facebook communication: Compared to politicians from major parties, politicians from minor parties communicate in more interactive ways via Facebook. In addition, politicians from minor parties perceive more strongly than their colleagues from major parties that their audience expects them to criticize other politicians or journalists.

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