scholarly journals whole new world

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Vander Kooy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
New World ◽  
Related Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Social Media Presence

This poster will present the results of a thematic analysis of the contents of the Vancouver Public Library’s (VPL) Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube feeds throughout the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (February 1st to June 30th, 2020) to better understand what types of crisis-related services and information they are providing to the public. This data will also be compared to Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube content from the same time period in 2019 to investigate whether the pandemic has changed VPL’s social media presence in any significant way.

Using the Blogosphere to Promote Disputed Diets

2017 ◽  
pp. 10-30
Author(s):  
Christopher Holmberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
High Fat ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nutritional Recommendations ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Science Popularization ◽  
Social Media Presence

Widely influential low-carb high fat diet (LCHF) promoters have been using social media to marshal support when contesting the nutritional recommendations provided by the National Swedish Food Agency (NFA). Political events led to an increased public awareness of the LCHF diet, which in turn provided the advocates with vital opportunities to contest the established nutritional authorities. This study explored how three of the leading promoters transact their criticisms of nutrition authorities, and how they use social media for this purpose. A longitudinal thematic analysis of the diet promoters' social media presence demonstrates that they made full use of media convergence to form opinion and attain their goals. The LCHF promoters utilized a rhetorical arsenal based in science popularization to appeal to the public and social media allowed for the spread of anecdotal evidence of individual dieters. Interestingly, social media also facilitated the advocates to network their expertise and to start science initiatives evolving from merely anecdotal methods to conventional approaches.

scholarly journals Understanding coronavirus disease (COVID-19) risk perceptions among the public to enhance risk communication efforts: a practical approach for outbreaks, Finland, February 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Leena Lohiniva ◽  
Jussi Sane ◽  
Katja Sibenberg ◽  
Taneli Puumalainen ◽  
Mika Salminen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Risk Magnitude

Understanding risk perceptions of the public is critical for risk communication. In February 2020, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare started collecting weekly qualitative data on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) risk perception that informs risk communication efforts. The process is based on thematic analysis of emails and social media messages from the public and identifies factors linked to appraisal of risk magnitude, which are developed into risk communication recommendations together with health and communication experts.

scholarly journals ETIKA BERMEDIA SOSIAL PEREMPUAN FATAYAT MELALUI PENGUATAN PENGETAHUAN LITERASI MEDIA DI SITUBONDO

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-96
Author(s):  
Nur Ainiyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
New World ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Media And Technology

Media and technology take us to an era of information literacy. The pattern of communication and conversation on social media recently tends to provoke, shows the low ethics of Indonesian society in in the public domain communication such as social media. It is undeniable that women also took part as a subject in social media, including the Fatayat group in Situbondo. This study emphasizes the empowerment of social media ethics towards fatayat women in Situbondo through media literacy to fight hoax. It was a qualitative-explorative research by examined how fatayat ethics and behavior in communication through social media and how women are ethically empowered through strengthening knowledge media literacy. Social media in fatayat women live brings and forms a new world in interacting and communicating. Manage contents via Facebook shared and published by fatayat members, making them learn literacy. Strengthening social media ethics through media literacy is carried out in various stages, especially through monthly meetings, thematic discussions and the role of women through fatayat

scholarly journals A qualitative thematic analysis of ‘INFODEMIC: A Stanford Conference on Social Media, Ethics, and COVID-19 Misinformation’ (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Gisondi ◽  
Daniel Chambers ◽  
Tatum Minh La ◽  
Alexa Ryan ◽  
Adyant Shankar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Primary Study ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge the world’s population, with approximately 266 million cases and 5 million deaths to date. COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation led to vaccine hesitancy among the public, particularly in vulnerable communities, which persists today. Social media companies are attempting to curb the ongoing spread of an overwhelming amount of COVID-19 misinformation on their platforms. In response to this problem, the authors hosted INFODEMIC: A Stanford Conference on Social Media and COVID-19 Misinformation (INFODEMIC) to develop best practices for social media companies to mitigate online misinformation and disinformation. OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to develop recommendations for social media companies to address The COVID-19 Infodemic. The authors report the methods used to execute the INFODEMIC conference, conference attendee engagement and analytics, and a qualitative thematic analysis of the conference presentations. The primary study outcomes were the identified themes and corresponding recommendations. METHODS Using a constructivist paradigm, the authors conducted a thematic analysis of the 6-hour conference transcript to develop best practice recommendations. The INFODEMIC conference was the study intervention, the conference speakers were the study participants, and transcripts of their presentations were the data for this study. The authors followed the 6-step framework for thematic analysis described by Clark and Braun. They also used descriptive statistics to report measures of conference engagement including registrations, viewership, post-conference asynchronous participation, and conference evaluations. RESULTS A total of 26 participants spoke at the virtual conference and represented a wide array of occupations, expertise, and countries of origin. From their remarks, the authors identified 18 response categories and four themes: trust, equity, social media practices, and interorganizational partnerships. From these, a total of 16 best practice recommendations were formulated for social media companies, healthcare organizations, and the general public. These recommendations focused on rebuilding trust in science and medicine among certain communities, redesigning social media platforms and algorithms to reduce the spread of misinformation, improving partnerships between key stakeholders, and educating the public to critically analyze online information. Of the 1,090 conference registrants, 587 (54%) attended the live conference and another 9,996 individuals viewed or listened to the conference recordings asynchronously. Conference evaluations averaged 8.9 (best = 10). CONCLUSIONS Social media companies play a significant role in the The COVID-19 Infodemic and should adopt evidence-based measures to mitigate misinformation on their platforms.

Productivity on the Social Web

2017 ◽  
pp. 45-68
Author(s):  
Neus Soler-Labajos ◽  
Ana Isabel Jiménez-Zarco
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Enterprise 2.0 ◽  
Corporate Website ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Attractive Option ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
A Company

Companies gain competitive advantage when they are in a better position than its competitors to keep customers, so for providing the greatest value, become a captivating option, generate satisfaction and achieve the loyalty of consumers, it is necessary that they know the market and enter into a profitable relationship with the customer. In order to get closer to the public, the social media presence stands as a very attractive option for the companies, but these wonder if the effort will offset the result obtained. In this chapter, we will define the concept of enterprise 2.0, and will explain the main benefits that a company can get with the adoption of social media, in relation to its brand image and reputation, communication with the public and the increase of traffic that it can get to the corporate website. Then, and after pointing out the most popular social software tools, we will focus on social media metrics, defining the different types of metrics, designing a framework of social analysis and highlighting those that prove to be of greater business value.

scholarly journals PUBLIC REACTION TO COVID-19 ON TWITTER: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
pp. 349-358
Author(s):  
Akif Mustafa ◽  
Imaduddin Ansari ◽  
Subham Kumar Mohanta ◽  
Shalem Balla
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Public Reaction

Emergency situations typically lead to a plethora of public attention on social media platforms like ‘Twitter’. Twitter provides a unique opportunity for public health researchers to analyze untampered information shared during a disease outbreak. Considering the ongoing public health emergency, we conducted a study investigating the public reaction to COVID-19 pandemic around the world using in-depth thematic analysis of Twitter data. A dataset of 212846 tweets was retrieved over a period of seven days (from April 13, 2020, to April 19, 2020) via Twitter Application Programme Interface (API). The following five keywords were used to collect the tweets: “coronavirus”, “covid-19”, “corona”, “covid”, “covid19”. After data filtering and cleaning 6348 tweets were randomly selected for in-depth thematic analysis. Thematic analysis was done manually using a two-level coding guide. A total of six main themes emerged from the analysis: ‘sentiments and feelings’, ‘Information’, ‘General Discussion’, ‘Politics’, ‘Food’, and ‘Sarcasm or humor’. The aforementioned themes were divided into 26 sub-themes. The results of the thematic analysis show that 30.1% of the tweets were regarding ‘sentiments and feelings’, 15.6% were regarding ‘politics’, and 6.5% were related to ‘sarcasm or humor’. The present study is the first study that has analyzed the public response to COVID-19 on Twitter. The study demonstrates that social media platforms (like Twitter) can be used to conduct infodemiological studies related to public health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe that the results of this study will be of potential interest to policymakers, health authorities, stakeholders, and public health and social science researchers. KEYWORDS:COVID-19, Twitter, Social Media, Coronavirus, Lockdown, Pandemic

scholarly journals Framing of and Attention to COVID-19 on Twitter: Thematic Analysis of Hashtags (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iman Tahamtan ◽  
Devendra Potnis ◽  
Ehsan Mohammadi ◽  
Laura E Miller ◽  
Vandana Singh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public

BACKGROUND Although past research has focused on COVID-19–related frames in the news media, such research may not accurately capture and represent the perspectives of people from diverse backgrounds. Additionally, research on the public attention to COVID-19 as reflected through frames on social media is scarce. OBJECTIVE This study identified the frames about the COVID-19 pandemic in the public discourse on Twitter, which voices diverse opinions. This study also investigated the amount of public attention to those frames on Twitter. METHODS We collected 22 trending hashtags related to COVID-19 in the United States and 694,582 tweets written in English containing these hashtags in March 2020 and analyzed them via thematic analysis. Public attention to these frames was measured by evaluating the amount of public engagement with frames and public adoption of those frames. RESULTS We identified 9 frames including “public health guidelines,” “quarantine life,” “solidarity,” “evidence and facts,” “call for action,” “politics,” “post-pandemic life,” “shortage panic,” and “conflict.” Results showed that some frames such as “call for action” are more appealing than others during a global pandemic, receiving greater public adoption and engagement. The “call for action” frame had the highest engagement score, followed by “conflict” and “evidence and facts.” Additionally, “post-pandemic life” had the highest adoption score, followed by “call for action” and “shortage panic.” The findings indicated that the frequency of a frame on social media does not necessarily mean greater public adoption of or engagement with the frame. CONCLUSIONS This study contributes to framing theory and research by demonstrating how trending hashtags can be used as new user-generated data to identify frames on social media. This study concludes that the identified frames such as “quarantine life” and “conflict” and themes such as “isolation” and “toilet paper panic” represent the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The consequences could be (1) exclusively related to COVID-19, such as hand hygiene or isolation; (2) related to any health crisis such as social support of vulnerable groups; and (3) generic that are irrespective of COVID-19, such as homeschooling or remote working.

scholarly journals Will better performing health-care services have higher profiles and be more active on social media? A comparative study between hospitals from Colombia and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Lorena Busto-Salinas
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Basic Hypothesis

Hospitals make increasingly more use of social media. The basic hypothesis of this study is that the more developed the health care services of a country are, the higher the communicative activity of its hospitals will be on social media. Moreover, the highest presence and activity on social media will be associated with the most prestigious hospitals in countries with fewer economic resources. The presence of the most prestigious hospitals in both Colombia and Spain on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram are analyzed in this paper to either refute or to accept these hypotheses. Both countries have similar populations, but their economic and health care services differ greatly. The degree of activity on these platforms, the participation of Internet users, and the reputation of the hospitals are also studied. In total, 165 profiles are analyzed. The results are processed in a statistical software program and various tests establish whether there are significant relations. It was observed that the level of health-care services of the country was not correlated with the presence and activity of the hospitals on social media, nor with the interaction of Internet users. In addition, a correlation between social-media presence and reputation was detected in the country with the most developed health-care services (Spain). In conclusion, the fact that a country has more health-care resources neither implies that its hospitals have either a greater presence or are more active on social media, nor that the public interact more with those hospitals.

scholarly journals Contextualising the 2019 E-Cigarette Health Scare: Insights from Twitter

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wasim Ahmed ◽  
Xavier Marin-Gomez ◽  
Josep Vidal-Alaball
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
General Public ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Influential Users ◽  
Insight Into

A health scare can be described as a campaign that attempts to alert the public of a particular substance or activity that can lead to a negative effect on health. A recent health scare to emerge relates to the health hazards associated with the use of e-cigarettes, which has caused widespread debate, which peaked towards the end of 2019. Health scares need to be studied in the context in which they occur, and one method of studying them is through social media. This paper identifies two key topics of discussion on Twitter, which consisted of pro-vaping and anti-vaping views. The paper then identifies influential users, frequently occurring words, hashtags, and websites related to this time period in order to gain insight into e-cigarette perceptions. The paper then reviews current scientific evidence and develops a flowchart for the general public, which can be used to for public reassurance and guidance.

scholarly journals Vaping discussion in the COVID-19 pandemic: An observational study using Twitter data

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0260290
Author(s):  
Joanne Chen Lyu ◽  
Garving K. Luli ◽  
Pamela M. Ling
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
World Health ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Increased Risk

Background With the spread of COVID-19, significant concerns have been raised about the potential increased risk for electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) users for COVID-19 infection and related syndromes. Social media is an increasingly popular source for health information dissemination and discussion, and can affect health outcomes. Objective This study aims to identify the topics in the public vaping discussion in COVID-19–related Twitter posts in order to get insight into public vaping-related perceptions, attitudes and concerns, and to discern possible misinformation and misconceptions around vaping in the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods Using the tweets ID database maintained by Georgia State University’s Panacea Lab, we downloaded the tweets related to COVID-19 from March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, to February 12, 2021. We used R to analyze the tweets that contained a list of 79 keywords related to vaping. After removing duplicates and tweets created by faked accounts or bots, the final data set consisted of 11,337 unique tweets from 7,710 different users. We performed the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) algorithm for topic modeling and carried out a sentiment analysis. Results Despite fluctuations, the number of daily tweets was relatively stable (average number of daily tweets = 33.4) with a sole conspicuous spike happening on a few days after August 11, 2020 when a research team published findings that teenagers and young adults who vape face a much higher risk of COVID-19 infection than their peers who do not vape. Topic modeling generated 8 topics: linkage between vaping and risk of COVID-19 infection, vaping pneumonia and the origin of COVID-19, vaping and spread of COVID-19, vaping regulation, calling for quitting vaping, protecting youth, similarity between e-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury (EVALI) and COVID-19, and sales information. Daily sentiment scores showed that the public sentiment was predominantly negative, but became slightly more positive over the course of the study time period. Conclusions While some content in the public discourse on vaping before the COVID-19 pandemic continued in Twitter posts during the COVID-19 time period, new topics emerged. We found a substantial amount of anti-vaping discussion and dominantly negative sentiment around vaping during COVID-19, a sharp contrast to the predominantly pro-vaping voice on social media in the pre-COVID-19 period. Continued monitoring of social media conversations around vaping is needed, and the public health community may consider using social media platforms to actively convey scientific information around vaping and vaping cessation.

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