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Public reactions to celebrity cancer disclosures via social media: Implications for campaign message design and strategy:
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Social media users’ reactions to a celebrity’s cancer announcement may serve as de facto cancer awareness campaigns as well as highlight how to effectively craft coordinating strategic campaigns launched after a celebrity cancer disclosure.Abstract:
Objective:The aim of this study was to analyse social media users’ reactions to a celebrity’s cancer announcement in order to inform future cancer-related campaigns.Design:A content analysis of Fac...read more
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Prescribing in Dermatology: Skin cancer
Polly Buchanan,Molly Courtenay +1 more
TL;DR: The incidence of skin cancer is increasing and nurses are in an ideal position to help patients prevent and identify the disease at an early stage.
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Celebrity Cancer on Twitter: Mapping a Novel Opportunity for Cancer Prevention:
TL;DR: Analysis of how a celebrity cancer announcement influenced Twitter conversations in terms of the volume of social media messages and the type of content found that messages related to prostate cancer increased significantly more than expected for 2 days following Stiller’s announcement.
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Entertainment, Social Media Use and Young Women's Tanning Behaviours.
TL;DR: This paper found that media use is positively associated with skin-damaging behaviours, especially among US college-aged women, but less is known about the role of specific media types in p...
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Learning about cardiac arrest from 'Dr. Google': a pre- and peri-pandemic infodemiology study in Nigeria
TL;DR: Notable increases in search activity aligned with the timing of heart-related illnesses and deaths of Nigerian celebrities during the COVID-19 pandemic, which could inform the development of health promotion interventions and support health-related information seeking for cardiovascular diseases.
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Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means
TL;DR: This article examines health promotion and disease prevention from the perspective of social cognitive theory, a multifaceted causal structure in which self-efficacy beliefs operate together with goals, outcome expectations, and perceived environmental impediments and facilitators in the regulation of human motivation, behavior, and well-being.
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Mass communication and para-social interaction; observations on intimacy at a distance.
Donald Horton,R. Richard Wohl +1 more
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What Makes Online Content Viral
TL;DR: This paper examined how emotion shapes virality and found that content that evokes high-arousal positive (awe) or negative (anger or anxiety) emotions is more viral.
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Defining Identification: A Theoretical Look at the Identification of Audiences With Media Characters
TL;DR: The authors argue that although the notion of identification with media characters is widely discussed in media research, it has not been carefully conceptualized or rigorously tested in empirical audience studies and suggest that a useful distinction can be made between identification and other types of reactions that media audiences have to media characters.