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Promoting health in a virtual world: Impressions of health
WEBThe purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the use of the online virtual world Second Life (SL) for the delivery of health communication messages designed to encourage individuals to make healthy lifestyle choices regarding physical activity and nutrition. Research questions addressed participants’ impressions of the usefulness and …
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View of Promises and premises: Emoji in youth mental health and
WEBIntroduction. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that roughly 14 percent of the world’s youth experience some kind of mental disorder at any given time [].This rate is nearly doubled compared to the general population.
The Health Heritage Index findings on digital collections
WEBThe Heritage Health Index, the first comprehensive survey of the condition of U.S. collections, concluded that immediate action is needed to save millions of artifacts held by archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and archaeological and scientific research organizations. The study, conducted by Heritage Preservation in partnership …
Promises and premises: Emoji in youth mental health and …
WEBIn recent years rapid technological change has produced increasingly complex forms of communication, which hold out great promise in this area. Emoji have the potential to play a key role in the communication of mental health-related information in areas such as: self-disclosure, engagement, treatment intervention, and mental health …
View of Framing 'digital well-being' as a social good First Monday
WEBIntroduction. This article is a theoretical and critical examination of the concept of “digital well-being”. As we outline below, digital well-being has recently been conceptualised by media, computer science, and behavioural addictions scholars and relates to aspirational digital media use and debates concerning links between screen time and mental ill …
How to build an HIV out of care watch list: Remaking HIV …
WEBThis paper describes how state and local departments of public health (DPHs) in the United States build HIV “out of care” lists using “Data to Care” guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). DPHs use these lists in prevention outreach and contact tracing. DPHs build out of care lists using data sent to them by …
Taking Action Across the Divide
WEBFigure 1: Afya Community Action Plan. Establish Action Circle to develop a Web site featuring jargon-free culturally appropriate health information for our physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual well-being; chat and bulletin board space; news; tips; and public policy information;
Understanding the role of social media in online health: A global
WEBAround the globe, people are increasingly using social media for the provision of online social support. Online social support may be especially relevant for parents who have children that are afflicted with rare chronic diseases such as MECP2 Duplication Syndrome. Despite increasing evidence that online social support enhances a person’s …
The Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) in
WEBThe Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) aims to reduce financial and legal barriers to scholarship by providing Internet access to full text biomedical and health research articles for scholars in economically developing countries. In this study citation data was used to evaluate if HINARI journals have had greater use …
“You may have a cancer-causing virus and not even know it” Fear …
WEBMost explanations of health risks are presented as “fear appeals,” messages that attempt to arouse fear to modify personal behavior. The central goal of this research is to assess fear appeal performance in online news while examining several research-design issues. Looking at digital news content as fear appeals will expand the scope of …
Celebrity-politicians as health promoting role models: A case …
WEBIn this exploratory study we examine the hypothesis that health-promoting politician role-models positively influence an individual’s personal health habits. By examining the Facebook comments of individuals exposed to health-promoting personal accounts of politicians, we examine whether these individuals regard these politicians as …
Digital inequalities 3.0: Emergent inequalities in the information …
WEBThese inequalities are woven throughout the digital inequality stack in many ways including differentiated access, use, consumption, literacies, skills, and production. While many users are competent prosumers who nimbly work within different layers of the stack, very few individuals are “full stack engineers” able to create or recreate
How knowledge contributors are legitimizing their posts on
WEBTraditionally, journalists, government agencies, and medical professionals have acted as mediators, facilitating the transfer of scientific knowledge from scientists to the general public. More recently, however, ordinary citizens are circumventing top-down mediation and contributing directly to discussions about scientific topics online. For the …
Digital inequalities 2.0: Legacy inequalities in the information age
WEBIndeed, legacy digital inequalities persist vis-à-vis economic class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, aging, disability, healthcare, education, rural residency, networks, and global geographies. At the same time, emergent forms of inequality now appear alongside legacy inequalities such that notions of digital inequalities must be
ACT UP: A network’s resistance through constitutive rhetoric
WEBUsing constitutive rhetoric (Charland, 1987), the narrative capacities of the rhetorical strategies that appear to be embodied on ACT UP’s Web site are reviewed. The impact that ACT UP has on health and social policy globally has wide reaching ramifications, making the current investigation into its rhetorical strategies viable and …
Effects of social media motivations on women’s psychological well …
WEBSocial media use has been increasing apace regardless of geographical and economic boundaries. In particular, its penetration has occurred more rapidly in developing and low-income countries with abounding health and psychological disadvantages. Given the understanding that women are more prone to psychological disorders than men, the …
The UGC-CARE initiative: Indian academia's quest for research and
WEBThis paper discusses the reasons for emergence of predatory publications in India, engendered by mandates of higher educational institutions: that require stipulated number of research publications for employment and promotions. Predatory journals have eclipsed the merits of open access publishing, compromised ethical practices, and left …
Americans’ willingness to adopt a COVID-19 tracking app
WEBThe COVID-19 global pandemic led governments, health agencies, and technology companies to work on solutions to minimize the spread of the disease. One such solution concerns contact-tracing apps whose utility is tied to widespread adoption. Using survey data collected a few weeks into lockdown measures in the United States, we …
Exposure to thin-ideal, fitspirational, and plus-size Instagram …
WEBWe conducted an experiment with 185 women and 118 men 18–40 years old into the effects of viewing thin-idealized, fitspirational, and plus-size bodies sourced from Instagram on their body image and body-change cognitions. Analyses revealed post-exposure changes in body image, outcome evaluations (the desirability of the ideal …
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