Top Research Papers on Social Media

How social media and the devices they run on actually make life in cities more sociable, not less is discussed.

Increasingly complex and multipurpose social media platforms require digital competences from parents and adolescents alike. While adolescents grow up with social media, parents have more difficulties with them, leading to uncertainties regarding their adolescents’ social media mediation. This study contributes to parental mediation research by (1) investigating whether mediation strategies defined by previous research are also relevant for social media use, and (2) exploring whether parents’ social media literacy is connected to the choice for a certain mediation strategy, as previous researc...

By promoting observation and feedback in multiple clinical encounters such as those available in the T-MEX, this work can facilitate learning by helping team members to compare and contrast differences in teamwork that may occur across different situations, and thus to come to a richer understanding of what is needed to perform well in this regard.

Doctors need to exercise extreme care in their use of social media to ensure they maintain professional standards, according to professional standards and codes of ethics in Australia and New Zealand.

This opinion piece offers insights from the social-media experience of digital editors of peer-reviewed journals from non-Anglophone countries on bringing scientific papers of interest to a defined audience using the appropriate channel.

Social media represent a relatively simple technique to provide educational material in a format that is adapted to the learning styles preferred by the students.

Objective and purpose of this paper are to make medical professionals aware about the potentials, advantages, disadvantages, ethical issues, limitations, challenges and precautions about using the social media so that medical professionals can use the social social media in a better and safe way.

This paper explores the receptiveness towards a negative bias in health-related electronic Word of Mouth in an attempt to establish an informal corroboration tool, easily available.

The study suggests that students perceive judicious use of social media as an advantageous addition to the present learning patterns of medical education and the deleterious effects of it can be reduced by productive usage.

Reflecting the multiple ambiguities of its ordinary language use, the current scholarly use of the term(s) “medium”/“media” is fraught with contradictions. Starting out from the insight that the nucleus of any kind of communication is an act, in which an addresser presents an artefact and a task of interpretation to an addressee, which the latter is called upon to fulfil, anything else that accrues to this simple model (including “transport” and “encoding,” which defines the classic communication model) constitutes further levels of mediation and thus involves kinds of factors which come in be...

There is a correlative relationship between mediatization and social interaction. Communication scholars have paid attention to this relationship. We argue that mediatization involves the incorporation of various patterns of interaction among users of social media platforms. We used two theoretical approaches, namely mediatization and symbolic interaction. We surveyed a purposive sample that we selected according to certain criteria. Regression analysis revealed the correlative relationship between the dimensions of mediatization over social media platforms and the patterns of symbolic interac...

The needs of inclusion of social media usage in future health care providers’ curriculum by the higher educational institutions are emphasized in order to aware of the ethical and professional aspect.

With rapid, grassroots adoption of social media in medical education, concerns are emerging about potential risks, while benefits may be unclear.

This article discusses the socio-political implications of user-generated applications and platforms through the prism of the Arab revolutions. Popular postmodern conceptualisations such as (post-nation state) network societies, (postclass) immaterial economies and (horizontal) political resistance through multitudes requires rigorous reassessment in the aftermath of the events in the MENA. Although the revolutions have led to a resurgence of debates about the power of new media, such arguments (or rather assertions) are echoes of earlier suggestions related to peculiar fetishisations of ICT i...

Different aspect of social media to enhance education, research and clinical practice in modern medicine is discussed.

This article raises two questions: How are social media deployed to both undermine and enhance public trust in scientific expertise during a health crisis and how can medical experts and professionals navigate this new media dynamic that has partly replaced the institutional flow of communication between experts and citizens.

It is concluded that the implementation of the pharmacist in the health teams is necessary for the correct orientation of the proper use of drugs in order to avoid and alleviate the practice of self-medication influenced by social media.

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is partnering with its journals —Health Policy and Technology and the Postgraduate Medical Journal —to launch international awards for well-informed, clear writing on health matters in social media.

This work proposes multiple approaches to infer the medical persona associated with a social media post as a supervised multi-label text classification problem and proposes multiple neural network based architectures to extract useful features from these posts using pre-trained word embeddings.

Healthcare providers especially Physicians and all other stakeholders should focus on this changing face of healthcare and try to develop guidelines which can lessen fears, promote optimal use, and can help maintain ethos of practice of medicine on social media.

Abstract: This article discusses the socio-political implications of user-generated applications and platforms through the prism of the Arab revolutions. Popular postmodern conceptualisations such as (post-nation state) network societies, (post-class) immaterial economies and (horizontal) political resistance through multitudes requires rigorous reassessment in the aftermath of the events in the MENA. Although the revolutions have led to a resurgence of debates about the power of new media, such arguments (or rather assertions) are echoes of earlier suggestions related to peculiar fetishisatio...

Today, social media is being used aggressively by medical publishers to promote knowledge, spread ideas and create platforms, where they can communicate their message to increase their scope by broadening the readership with a larger population viewing the recent journal articles.

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This editorial introduces a thematic issue on “Rethinking Media and Social Space”. By critically rethinking the relationship between media and social space this issue takes initial steps towards ensuring that media studies is appropriate for a mediatized world. Contemporary societies are permeated by media that play important roles in how people maneuver and position themselves in the social world. Yet, analyses of media-related social change too often fail to engage with the complex and situated nature of power relations. This editorial highlights three enduring problems: (1) the annihilation...

Socialization of new generations which are growing-up in media societies is defined as media socialization. Specifics and risks of media socialization in modern media environments are analyzed.

  This brief essay aims to rescue part of the very diverse research agendas, oriented from the thematic trajectories “social medias” and “sociability”. These trajectories illustrate quite clearly the importance of this theoretical-methodological framework for the investigation of a wide range of issues in the contemporary social sciences. We are particularly interested in the construction of sociabilities mediated by the internet, from online communication platforms, in which it´s possible to establish social interactions with multiple actors, recovering conversation rooms, spaces of convivial...

Among types of social media used in medical education, blogging is the most common tool studied for its outcomes and has been used to improve learner engagement, stimulate interaction with faculty, maintain students’ humanism and empathy, and enhance collaboration.

It is found that an ecology of social media tools such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Google Docs mediated undercurrents that served to ground the public discourse of the movement.

The researcher’s major focus was on social media platforms as a mediator element for medical tourists, as well as their effect on decision-making, and how new technologies are adopted and utilised.

In the midst of an ever-changing world that we inhabit today, many facets that were once viewed as ‘intruding’, ‘alien’, or utter anomalies, have turned into integral linchpins of our day-to-day lives, and without them, the modern dynamics of human essence are portrayed as incompetent. Amongst those pivotal factors are the emergence of the Internet, social media platforms, and the inevitable ascendancy of the virtual world. That is, the perception of what is deemed incongruent is primarily dependent on how well one seems to utilize social media, as it is the cutting edge of the contemporary me...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the mediating role of attachment to social media influencer between authenticity and enjoyment and then travel intention while watching social media influencer video. Design/methodology/approach This study used the survey approach to collect responses from respondents who have watched the social media influencer video. Partial least squares structural equation modeling technique was applied for the data analysis. Findings The results indicated that authenticities positively impact tourist attachment to social media influencer, enjoyment and hence vis...

The results of three studies indicated that social media use was rarely considered social interaction, and social interactions through social media were usually talk-focused, one-on-one exchanges with closer relational partners, and rarely undifferentiated, broadcasted, or passively consumed information shared with acquaintances.

The depiction of alcohol is the focus of a growing number of content analyses in the field of social media research and entails the phenomenon of alcohol brands and social media influencers marketing alcohol as well as ordinary social media users providing alcohol-related self-presentations.

Social media are becoming increasingly integrated into political practices around the world. Politicians, citizens and journalists employ new media tools to support and supplement their political goals. This report examines the way in which social media are portrayed as political tools in Australian mainstream media in order to establish what the relations are between social media and mainstream media in political news reporting. Through the close content-analysis of 93 articles sampled from the years 2008, 2010 and 2012, we provide a longitudinal insight into how the perception by Australian ...

It is proposed that, in order to improve future patient-practitioner and patient-researcher relationships for endometriosis, the authors must understand, not dismiss, the social media practices of those with endometiosis.

It is argued that bioethicists should turn their attention to the ways in which consumer engagement, bias, and profit maximization shape online content and, consequently, human behavior and health.

It is likely that a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach, using a wide range of interventions, will be required to counter the spread of medical misinformation on social media.

This study aimed to review the current literature relating to social media in postgraduate training, and establish core trainees perceived value and role of social media as an educational tool.

Social media is effective as a medical teaching tool improving enthusiasm in academics, kindling interest in clinical learning, making learning fun and lively, without much distraction to students and can be integrated in the medical educational context.

The #Me is a common hashtag on social media signifying personal practices and images of the self and so the title signified at once our personal research interests: selfies (Cambre, 2016; Warfield, 2016a, b, 2017), self-presentation on Instagram (Abidin 2018a, b; Leaver et al., 2019), hook-up apps (Cambre and David, 2016), and tumblr (Warfield, 2020), and political images of faces that circulate subversively online (Cambre, 2016). #Me also reflected some of the core themes we explore in this book: selfhood, social media, identities, the feeling, and fleshy body. The bracketed (inter), in the o...

<p align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB">The demographic changes taking place in the most developed countries in Europe show a dynamic process of aging societies. Seniors (i.e. according to WHO, people over 65 years of age) are sometimes affected due to the limiting conditions of constantly progressing social changes. One of the most significant transformations is the presence of media in the everyday life of individuals. Development of technology and media communication lead to the spread of the mediatization of s...

SNSs are used by the majority of students to enhance their learning, but to use them to their fullest; the material posted has to be concise, engaging and aligned with the learning objectives.

It was found that the highest percentages of students in all groups used Facebook and YouTube more than other types of social media and spend about 2 hours on internet, and in most of students there was a benefit from site of medical college.

Medical students are not sufficiently knowledgeable about the dangers of online social media, and education about how to use it responsibly may be beneficial.

This article provides an analysis of celebrity politics within the public sphere. As there has been a commodification of digital media services, the lines between politics and entertainment have been blurred. With the rise of talent shows, rolling news channels, Web 2.0 networks and user-generated online content, celebrity has become instantaneous and may be orchestrated in viral terms. Therefore, this analysis will consider how politicized celebrities (CP2s) have received a greater amount of coverage with reference to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to associate themselves with e...

Using social media to describe the social media usage patterns of medical students and to identify factors associated with their posting of unprofessional content on social media is described.

The advantages and trend of social media in medical field of China were analyzed and the challenges facing medical social media were pointed out and their countermeasures were proposed.

Alternative metrics (altmetrics) represents a new way of measuring the impact of scientific research in relation to the diffusion of science that is increasingly done both in general and in specific social networks.

Alternative metrics (altmetrics) represents a new way of measuring the impact of scientific research in relation to the diffusion of science that is increasingly done both in general and in specific social networks.

Social media is a quick and economic tool in promoting medical conferences and instant messenger systems offer immediate communication amongst associates, which enhances the training and education of microsurgeons.