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Understanding Social Media: Opportunities for Cardiovascular Medicine

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the basics of social media usage (with the focus on Twitter), provide perspective on best social media practices in academic and clinical cardiovascular medicine, and present a vision for social media and the future of cardiovascular medicine.
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This article is published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The article was published on 2019-03-12 and is currently open access. It has received 110 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media.

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Insights From Twitter Conversations on Lupus and Reproductive Health: Protocol for a Content Analysis

TL;DR: A content analysis of Twitter data published by users in English in the United States from September 1, 2017, to October 31, 2018, is conducted in order to examine people’s perspectives on reproductive health among patients with lupus to shed light on whether Twitter is a promising data source for learning about reproductive health issues expressed among Patients with Lupus.
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The pragmatics of text-emoji co-occurrences on Chinese social media

TL;DR: It is proposed that emojis are used to perform speech acts, highlight subjective interpretations, and enhance informality, while substituting, reinforcing, and complementing the meanings conveyed by verbal language.
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Social media as source of information for Spanish-speaking patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

TL;DR: Most of the information shown in YouTube® videos on SLE tends to be useful, however, audience engagement parameters are larger for misleading videos, and the videos uploaded by independent users had lower rates of reliability, comprehensiveness and quality.
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Social Media Scholarship and Alternative Metrics for Academic Promotion and Tenure

TL;DR: The current state of academic promotion and the definition, nature, and merit of digital scholarship are described and new strategies and tools for the assessment of dissemination and impact of these works, such as altmetrics are outlined.
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Correlation of Altmetric Attention Score With Article Citations in Cardiovascular Research.

TL;DR: Social media outlets, particularly Twitter, have gained interest among the cardiovascular community as a modality for dissemination of cardiovascular research as well as a tool to assess the performance of scholarly articles on Web-based media and social media.
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Medical Journals in the Age of Ubiquitous Social Media.

TL;DR: Concerns remain regarding how to assess the impact of journal social media outreach, abundant but unclear metrics, and the magnitude of benefit (if any), particularly given the substantial work required for substantive interactive engagement.
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Social Media and Cardiology.

TL;DR: Social media has become an increasingly important method of communication in medicine, and the field of cardiology is no different, and Twitter, in particular, has become a forum for communication among health care clinicians and scientists.
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Academic Cardiology and Social Media: Navigating the Wisdom and Madness of the Crowd.

TL;DR: It was a sleepy Thursday morning at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference, typical for the final morning of a conference; exhibitor booths had been disassembled, and most attendees had long since departed, but for one Late Breaking Clinical Trial session that remained, the size of the live audience was hardly relevant.
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