Pro- and anti-opioid use posts on Reddit: A Content Analysis (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shreya Godishala ◽  
Anna Jolliff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Online Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Word Count ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Linguistic Inquiry ◽  
Variable Focus

BACKGROUND Opioid use is a leading cause of injury-related deaths in the United States. Past studies have shown that analyzing opioid-related social media has the potential to reveal patterns of opioid abuse offline. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to examine how users are posting about pro and anti- opioid use on Reddit. METHODS There were 100 posts selected from the Reddit online community r/Opioids. The comments and upvotes for each of the posts were collected. The posts were also run through Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software with 16 variables. RESULTS There were on average more comments for anti- opioid posts (M= 9.06 , SD =12.22) than for the average number of comments for pro- opioid posts (M=14.88, SD= 17.89) t(81)= (2.79), p = 0.0065 < 0.05. There were on average more upvotes for anti- opioid posts (M= 1.58 , SD =1.98) than for the average number of comments for pro- opioid posts (M= 41.67, SD= 16.36), t(81)= (16.84), p = 0.0001. For LIWC variable Focus Present was found to be more significant in anti- opioid posts (M= 11.19, SD =5.79) than for pro- opioid posts (M= 15.58, SD=9.81), t(98)= (2.82), p =.0207. Focus future was also found to be more significant in anti- opioid posts (M= 1.63 , SD =1.86) than for pro- opioid posts (M=1.63, SD= 1.86), t(98)= (2.84), p = .0244. CONCLUSIONS Although there were on average more pro-opioid use posts in the online community, there seemed to be more engagement and support for the anti-opioid use posts. For the LIWC variables that were analyzed, Focus Present and Focus Future were found to be significant. This suggests that some users may be more likely to use vocabulary pertaining to future and present situations while looking at the health risks of opioids.

scholarly journals Social Media and Men’s Health: A Content Analysis of Twitter Conversations During the 2013 Movember Campaigns in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1627-1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline A. Bravo ◽  
Laurie Hoffman-Goetz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Health Related

The Movember Foundation raises awareness and funds for men’s health issues such as prostate and testicular cancers in conjunction with a moustache contest. The 2013 Movember campaigns in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom shared the same goal of creating conversations about men’s health that lead to increased awareness and understanding of the health risks men face. Our objective was to explore Twitter conversations to identify whether the 2013 Movember campaigns sparked global conversations about prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and other men’s health issues. We conducted a content analysis of 12,666 tweets posted during the 2013 Movember campaigns in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom (4,222 tweets from each country) to investigate whether tweets were health-related or non-health-related and to determine what topics dominated conversations. Few tweets ( n = 84, 0.7% of 12,666 tweets) provided content-rich or actionable health information that would lead to awareness and understanding of men’s health risks. While moustache growing and grooming was the most popular topic in U.S. tweets, conversations about community engagement were most common in Canadian and U.K. tweets. Significantly more tweets co-opted the Movember campaign to market products or contests in the United States than Canada and the United Kingdom ( p < .05). Findings from this content analysis of Twitter suggest that the 2013 Movember campaigns in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom sparked few conversations about prostate and testicular cancers that could potentially lead to greater awareness and understanding of important men’s health issues.

Informational Needs of Urinary Incontinent Patients on Online Peer Support Groups-A Pilot Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 1689-1693
Author(s):  
Emma Scharett ◽  
Shraddhaa Narasimha ◽  
Kapil Chalil Madathil ◽  
Mackenzie Klein Wilson ◽  
Nicole Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Research Team ◽  
The United States ◽  
Informational Needs ◽  
Word Count ◽  
Linguistic Inquiry ◽  
Nursing Department ◽  
Southeastern Region

People suffering from Urinary Incontinence (UI) seek support and advice through online communities. The research team conducted a content analysis of nafc.org to investigate characteristics of information searched by users to analyze the effectiveness of this forum. Forty posts and the corresponding 249 responses were randomly selected and analyzed using a classification system derived by a research team from a nursing department in one of the universities in the southeastern region of the United States. The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) generated an average tone rating of 35.21 for question posts and 53.20 for response posts. The findings highlighted the user’s need to seek advice concerning symptoms of UI resulting in 72.5% of question posts in this category and the responders need to empathize with the initial poster by sharing their own experiences resulting in 41.76% of responses in this category. We plan to continue the study with the analysis of 200 questions and their corresponding responses to better explore the emotions and needs shared in the forum.

scholarly journals #Selfie: Instagram and the United States Congress

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511881337 ◽  
Author(s):  
David O’Connell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Congressional Representation ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Personal Accounts

This article is based on a content analysis of the 17,811 Instagram posts made by all 534 members of the United States Congress who were seated for the duration of the first 6 months of the 115th session. I find that women are significantly more likely than men to have an Instagram account. Senators and women post significantly more times to their accounts. And a member’s personal characteristics, such as their chamber, party, and age, had significant effects on the type of content posted to Instagram. I conclude that members of Congress use Instagram similarly to how they use other social media platforms, that parties in and out of power use Instagram in substantively different ways, and that the more personal accounts of younger members suggest future changes in Congressional representation.

scholarly journals Usage of humor to Overshadow Islamophobia in the World

2018 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzana Kausar ◽  
Dr. Wajid Zulqarnain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Word Count ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
The World ◽  
Linguistic Inquiry ◽  
The Impact

After the 9/11 incident in the United States, a hatred gap arose between the Americans and Americans Muslims. Many Muslim stand-up comedians started their efforts to decrease this tension through humorous performances and comic screenplays. Also, Muslim comedians are neutralizing negative social discrimination between Muslims and another world to reduce the impact of Islamophobia in the world. The purpose of the study is to examine the part of Muslim comedians and the sentiments of the listeners about their stand-up humor videos. This study is the qualitative content analysis of comments on videos of two American Muslim comedians Negin Farsad and Obeidallah Dean. For data analysis, Linguistic Inquiry & Word Count (LIWC) used to analyses the positive emotions, negative emotions, and emotional tone. Findings exhibit that Muslim comedians are playing a critical part to assist the Muslim community handle with the effect of Islamophobia. The study also investigated that Muslim stand-up comedians are contributing to lessen the stereotyping discernments and disliked comments about Muslim identity globally. It is concluded that comedy has also helped in comforting the audiences that Arab and Muslims are not unpatriotic and adversarial to the United States or to another world.

scholarly journals „Social media muckraking” na przykładzie filmu dokumentalnego Tylko nie mów nikomu – charakterystyka i kierunki oddziaływania

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-493
Author(s):  
Dominika Popielec
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Investigative Journalism

"Social Media Muckraking" on the Example of the Documentary Film Don't Tell Anyone - Characteristics and Directions of Impact In this paper the author has analyzed the phenomenon of investigative journalism in social media on the example of Tomasz Sekielski, which was defined by the author’s term “social media muckraking”. Muckraking, which dates back to the so-called “golden age of journalism” in the United States is one of the most ennobling terms for investigative journalism. The proposed term is the result of observing the increasingly popular practice of using social media in the work of an investigative re­porter also in the context of increasing publicity of the pedophile theme among priests, which was presented in the documentary film Do Not Tell Anyone. Therefore, social media content analysis and case study were used. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the activity of Tomasz Sekielski reflects the nature of the concept of “social media muckraking” which is one of the possibilities of practicing investigative journalism in the era of new technologies.

scholarly journals How People Express Grief by Sharing Photographs on Social Networks: A Comparative Study between Italy and the United States of America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Illene Cupit ◽  
Paolo Sapelli ◽  
Ines Testoni
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The U.S

Abstract: As innovative way to express grief, social media posts about the deceased have become fairly common. However, few studies examined grief photos commonly posted. The purpose of the present study was to examine such pictures, as well as the motivation and reactions of those who posted, among Italians and Americans. Surveys were sent to both Italian and U.S. participants. The U.S. group yielded 262 responses (Mean age = 22 years; 81% female), the Italian yielded 51 (Mean age = 32. Several key issues emerged, such as the need to receive empathic support from other users, the desire to maintain continuing bonds, the wish to remember the deceased, and the desire to share beauty and symbolic pictures. The images were analyzed using content analysis. Both samples posted photos to remember and to enhance their posts. A strong preference for pictures with a positive emotional connotation appeared, depicting the deceased in a conjoint appearance with the participant. Results suggest that imagery used for the expression of grief in social media sites, an &ldquo;iconography of grief,&rdquo; is a popular means of expression for grievers.

scholarly journals Perceptions of the IQOS Heated Tobacco Product on Twitter in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Canruo Zou ◽  
Xueting Wang ◽  
Zidian Xie ◽  
Dongmei Li
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Enforcement Policy ◽  
Quit Smoking ◽  
Twitter Users

After the approval of the sales of IQOS in the United States market, discussions about IQOS have become active on social media. Twitter is a popular social media platform to understand public opinions toward IQOS. This study aims to explore public perceptions toward IQOS on Twitter in the United States. IQOS-related tweets from the United States between November 19, 2019, and August 24, 2020, were collected using a Twitter streaming application programming interface (API). Sentiment analysis was performed to determine whether the public perceptions toward IQOS were positive, neutral, or negative. In addition, topics discussed in these tweets were manually coded. From November 2019 to August 2020, the number of tweets discussing IQOS was relatively constant except for a peak starting from July 7, 2020, which lasted for 4 days. Among IQOS tweets with positive sentiments, the most popular topic is “IQOS is safer than cigarettes,” followed by “IQOS helps quit smoking.” Among tweets with negative sentiments, the most popular topic is “illegal marketing/selling to youth,” followed by “health risks/fire hazards.” “FDA approval/regulation” is the most popular topic for tweets with neutral sentiments. After the announcement of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement policy on unauthorized flavored e-cigarette products on January 2, 2020, the proportion of tweets with positive attitudes toward IQOS significantly increased, while the proportion of negative tweets significantly decreased. Our study showed that the public perception of IQOS in the United States became more positive after the FDA enforcement policy on flavored e-cigarettes. While many Twitter users thought IQOS is safer than cigarettes and helps quit smoking, some Twitter users complained about the illegal marketing and health risks of IQOS. These findings provide useful information on future tobacco regulations.

scholarly journals Self-transcendent emotions and social media: Exploring the content and consumers of inspirational Facebook posts

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-527
Author(s):  
Katherine R Dale ◽  
Arthur A Raney ◽  
Qihao Ji ◽  
Sophie H Janicke-Bowles ◽  
Joshua Baldwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
National Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Facebook Use ◽  
Sharing Behavior

Although a great deal of research has examined the potential negative effects of Facebook, studies also show that Facebook use can lead to various positive effects. This study builds on this positive effects scholarship: together, the two studies presented herein aim to provide an understanding of the inspirational content available on Facebook and the way social media users in the United States encounter, recall, and interact with this content. Results from the quantitative content analysis in Study 1 show that inspirational Facebook posts contain similar frequencies of hope and appreciation of beauty and excellent elicitors when compared with other forms of media and social media. Results from the national survey conducted in Study 2 show that social media users are most often inspired by portrayals of kindness and overcoming obstacles and that Facebook users did not report different sharing behavior as compared with users of other social media sites.

scholarly journals Does Flagging POTUS’s Tweets Lead to Fewer or More Retweets? Preliminary Evidence from Machine Learning Models

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wallace Chipidza ◽  
Jie Yan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Word Count ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Media Platforms

There is vigorous debate as to whether influential social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook should censor objectionable posts by government officials in the United States and elsewhere. Although these platforms have resisted pressure to censor such posts in the past, Twitter recently flagged five posts by the United States President Donald J. Trump on the rationale that the tweets contained inaccurate or inflammatory content. In this paper, we examine preliminary evidence as to whether these posts were retweeted less or more than expected. We employ 10 machine learning (ML) algorithms to estimate the expected number of retweets based on 8 features of each tweet from historical data since President Trump was elected: number of likes, word count, readability, polarity, subjectivity, presence of link or multimedia content, time of day of posting, and number of days since Trump’s election. Our results indicate agreement from all 10 ML algorithms that the three flagged tweets for which we had retweet data were retweeted at higher rates than expected. These results suggest that flagging tweets by government officials might be counterproductive towards the spread of content deemed objectionable by social media platforms.

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