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Article: Chinese Social Media Reaction to Information about 42 Notifiable Infectious Diseases
| Title | Chinese Social Media Reaction to Information about 42 Notifiable Infectious Diseases |
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| Issue Date | 2015 |
| Publisher | Public Library of Science. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.plosone.org/home.action |
| Citation | PLOS ONE, 2015, v. 10 n. 5, article no. e0126092 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | This study aimed to identify what information triggered social media users' responses regarding infectious diseases. Chinese microblogs in 2012 regarding 42 infectious diseases were obtained through a keyword search in the Weiboscope database. Qualitative content analysis was performed for the posts pertinent to each keyword of the day of the year with the highest daily count. Similar posts were grouped and coded. We identified five categories of information that increased microblog traffic pertaining to infectious diseases: news of an outbreak or a case; health education / information; alternative health information / Traditional Chinese Medicine; commercial advertisement / entertainment; and social issues. News unrelated to the specified infectious diseases also led to elevated microblog traffic. Our study showcases the diverse contexts from which increased social media traffic occur. Our results will facilitate better health communication as causes underlying increased social media traffic are revealed. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212340 |
| ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.839 |
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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Fung, ICH | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Hao, Y | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Cai, J | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Ying, Y | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Schaible, BJ | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Yu, CM | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Tse, ZTH | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Fu, KW | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-21T02:32:50Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2015-07-21T02:32:50Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | PLOS ONE, 2015, v. 10 n. 5, article no. e0126092 | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212340 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | This study aimed to identify what information triggered social media users' responses regarding infectious diseases. Chinese microblogs in 2012 regarding 42 infectious diseases were obtained through a keyword search in the Weiboscope database. Qualitative content analysis was performed for the posts pertinent to each keyword of the day of the year with the highest daily count. Similar posts were grouped and coded. We identified five categories of information that increased microblog traffic pertaining to infectious diseases: news of an outbreak or a case; health education / information; alternative health information / Traditional Chinese Medicine; commercial advertisement / entertainment; and social issues. News unrelated to the specified infectious diseases also led to elevated microblog traffic. Our study showcases the diverse contexts from which increased social media traffic occur. Our results will facilitate better health communication as causes underlying increased social media traffic are revealed. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | Public Library of Science. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.plosone.org/home.action | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | PLoS ONE | - |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
| dc.title | Chinese Social Media Reaction to Information about 42 Notifiable Infectious Diseases | - |
| dc.type | Article | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Fu, KW: kwfu@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Fu, KW=rp00552 | - |
| dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0126092 | - |
| dc.identifier.pmid | 25946020 | - |
| dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC4422708 | - |
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84929180308 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 244293 | - |
| dc.identifier.volume | 10 | - |
| dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
| dc.identifier.spage | article no. e0126092 | - |
| dc.identifier.epage | article no. e0126092 | - |
| dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000354049700111 | - |
| dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
| dc.relation.erratum | doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129525 | - |
| dc.identifier.issnl | 1932-6203 | - |