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Ebola on Instagram and Twitter: How health organizations address the health crisis in their social media engagement

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While both platforms were utilized by all three health organizations, the results suggest that Instagram may be a particularly useful platform for establishing meaningful, interactive communication with the publics in times of global health crises, as evidenced by significantly greater levels of engagement on the part of health organizations and thepublics.
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This article is published in Public Relations Review.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 230 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media & Public health.

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Prevalence of Health Misinformation on Social Media: Systematic Review

TL;DR: Health misinformation is a health-related claim that is based on anecdotal evidence, false, or misleading owing to the lack of existing scientific knowledge as mentioned in this paper, and it is defined as a health related claim that can be classified into six principal categories: vaccines, drugs or smoking, non-communicable diseases, eating disorders, and medical treatments.
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The COVID-19 risk perception: A survey on socioeconomics and media attention

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of socioeconomic factors and use of social media on the risk perception about COVID-19 in Vietnam, which shares a common border with China.
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Global Infodemiology of COVID-19: Analysis of Google Web Searches and Instagram Hashtags.

TL;DR: Internet search behaviors related to COVID-19 and the circulation of infodemic monikers through two platforms—Google and Instagram—during the current global pandemic are investigated to encourage mass media regulators and health organizers to be vigilant and diminish the use and circulation of these infodemia monikers to decrease the spread of misinformation.
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Lessons for Crisis Communication on Social Media: A Systematic Review of What Research Tells the Practice

TL;DR: In this paper, explicit pieces of advice for effective social media crisis communication given by researchers in various sub-disciplines of strategic communication are analyzed, and the themes are identified b...
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Understanding consumers’ social media engagement behaviour: An examination of the moderation effect of social media context

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse 721 survey responses using PLS-SEM to understand the various levels of engagement behaviors that are influenced by key social media contextual factors, namely media richness and content trustworthiness.
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Multiple Comparisons Using Rank Sums

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of rank sums from a combined ranking of k independent samples in order to decide which populations differ is suggested as a convenient alternative to making separate rankings for each pair of samples and the two methods are compared.
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The role of pictures in improving health communication: A review of research on attention, comprehension, recall, and adherence

TL;DR: Pictures closely linked to written or spoken text can, when compared to text alone, markedly increase attention to and recall of health education information and improve comprehension when they show relationships among ideas or when they shows spatial relationships.

Social Media Update 2016

TL;DR: Pew Research Center has documented the wide variety of ways in which Americans use social media to seek out information and interact with others, and half of the public has turned to these sites to learn about the 2016 presidential election.
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Helping Crisis Managers Protect Reputational Assets: Initial Tests of the Situational Crisis Communication Theory.

TL;DR: In this article, a situational crisis communication theory (SCCT), which articulates the variables, assumptions, and relationships that should be considered in selecting crisis response strategies to protect an organization's reputation, is advanced.
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