Sean Young: Social media big data for prediction of health behaviors and outcomes

Recent availability of “big data” might be used to study whether and how sexual risk behaviors are communicated on real-time social networking sites (e.g., Twitter) and how data might inform HIV prevention and detection. Sean presents his study that seeks to establish methods of using real-time social networking data for HIV prevention by assessing 1) whether geolocated conversations about HIV risk behaviors can be extracted from social networking data, 2) the prevalence and content of...

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From: Stanford Medicine X

Related topics : social network data / social networking sites and communication

Mickey's Research Proposal

This is a short Vlog that discusses the implications of several psychological studies associated with social networking sites (focusing on Facebook), and how different people use SNSs to help them meet their own needs. I briefly discuss the relationships between self-esteem, popularity, and personality as they relate to the way we use Facebook, our perceptions of self, and our presentation of self.

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From: EN 103

Related topics : how many people use social networking sites / social networking sites research study / use of social network sites