Conferences

Attended Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)
Friday, September 16, 2011 to Sunday, September 18, 2011
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)

You Follow?: An Analysis of Problem Drinking and Twitter
Kyle W. Prier, Joshua H. West, Carl L. Hanson, Michael D. Barnes, P. Cougar Hall, Christophe Giraud-carrier, Shannon Neeley

Background: Twitter is a prominent web 2.0 application. A normative belief refers to an individual’s perception about what people important to that individual think she should do. Whereas most Twitter content is senseless rambling, Twitter may be a platform upon which individuals communicate subjective norms about problem drinking. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which Twitter users tweet about problematic alcohol-related behaviors. Method: Data from ...

Health-Promoting Apps: a Content Analysis
James Barrett, Joshua West, Cougar Hall, Matthew Morgan, Carl Hanson, Michael Barnes

Background The advent of the iPhone opened the mobile device platform for freelance developers to design third-party apps, which greatly expand the device’s functionality and utility. In the health and fitness category on Apple’s iTunes, developers have created thousands of apps for download. Despite the apps’ popularity, little is known about the potential health utility of the many third-party apps being designed to interface with them. The purpose of this study was to provide a pano...

Protecting Health in a Social Media World: Healthcare and Human Service Responses to Online Threats
Carl Hanson, James Barrett, Michael Barnes, Joshua West

Background Social media applications are often used for the purpose of communication, collaboration, and multimedia sharing and include blogs, microblogging (e.g., Twitter), social networking (e.g., Facebook), wikis (e.g., PBworks), and video sharing applications (e.g., Youtube). These applications have exploded in popularity as they have empowered the lay public to join online conversations. Evidence suggests that health practitioners have become more involved in using social media for heal...

Full Paper Publications

Journal of Medical Internet Research

There’s an App for That: Content Analysis of Paid Health and Fitness Apps
Joshua H. West, P. Cougar Hall, Carl L. Hanson, Michael D. Barnes, Christophe Giraud-Carrier, James Barrett
J Med Internet Res 2012;14(3):e72

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