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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...
Related topics : social network data / social networking sites and communication
Joyce Lee: Exploring social media participation of a diabetes community on Twitter
Joyce Lee discusses her study focused on understanding the patient experience of diabetes through examining the content and sentiment of tweets shared within the social media community. Social media has great potential for tapping into conversations about healthcare and diabetes from the patient/caregiver perspective.
Related topics : social media participation / social media content
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