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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Melanie Hayman, Marian Keppel, Robert Stanton, Tanya L. Thwaite, Kristie-Lee Alfrey, Stephanie Alley, Cheryce Harrison, Shelley E. Keating, Stephanie Schoeppe, Summer S. Cannon, Lene A. H. Haakstad, Christina Gjestvang, Susan L. Williams
Summary: This study explored attitudes towards exercise during pregnancy depicted by social media influencers on Facebook and user engagement with the posted content. The results showed that users had positive attitudes towards exercise during pregnancy and the influencers. However, there were mixed opinions regarding the types of exercise performed by the influencers. This study highlights the need for continued education on exercise during pregnancy and the potential for social media influencers to disseminate evidence-based information to pregnant women.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Kelsey M. Cochrane, Jennifer A. Hutcheon, Crystal D. Karakochuk
Summary: This study evaluated the recruitment of pregnant women for a clinical trial in Vancouver, Canada, using social media compared to offline methods. The results showed that social media was more efficient and effective in recruiting participants. The study also provided insights for optimizing social media campaigns, although the number of enrolments depended more on study-specific factors.
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Nursing
Danielle M. Gleeson, Alison Craswell, Christian M. Jones
Summary: This study explores the experiences of participation and support within a closed online mothers' group. The findings show that the group allows childbearing women to overcome isolation and form sustained friendships. The depth of sharing is enhanced in this private online space, and virtual support feels safer and more controllable than face-to-face interactions.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Chloe Pekarsky, Janice Skiffington, Lara M. Leijser, Donna Slater, Amy Metcalfe
Summary: Paid social media advertisements, especially on Facebook and Instagram, are effective and cost-effective for recruiting a large sample of pregnant women for survey-based research. However, potential issues with fraudulent responses should be considered.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2022)
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Surgery
Dimitrios Athanasiadis, Alexandra Roper, William Hilgendorf, Adam Voss, Taylor Zike, Marisa Embry, Ambar Banerjee, Don Selzer, Dimitrios Stefanidis
Summary: This study describes the experience of managing a Facebook social support group for bariatric patients, and shows through analysis of posts and survey results that the group has significant perceived value. Patients reported that the group helped them maintain the results of their surgery, motivated them, and made them feel understood, although the help with controlling eating habits was limited.
SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gizem Ceylan, Ian A. Anderson, Wendy Wood
Summary: In this research, it is shown that the structure of online sharing on social platforms is more influential than individual deficits in critical reasoning and partisan bias in driving the sharing of misinformation. The reward-based learning systems on social media lead users to form habits of sharing attention-seeking information, regardless of its accuracy. These habits account for a significant portion of false news sharing and are established by social media platforms. However, it is suggested that social media sites can be restructured to promote the sharing of accurate information.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
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Communication
Gina M. Masullo
Summary: This two-study package examines the relationship between sense of common humanity - a subcomponent of self-compassion - and political divisiveness. Study 1 (n = 1010) shows that recognizing that feeling bad about oneself is a common human experience is associated with feeling competent to form relationships with those one disagrees with politically. Study 2 (n = 955) demonstrates that sense of common humanity can be primed using meme-like posts on Facebook, leading to more positive attitudes toward political outgroups. This study highlights the relevance of self-compassion in addressing political divisions and the potential of priming common humanity in online platforms like Facebook.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Karen G. Chartier, Jeanine P. D. Guidry, Catherine A. Lee, Thomas D. Buckley
Summary: The study found that Twitter and Instagram users, as well as users of multiple social media platforms, but not Facebook users, drank more frequently in the third wave. Additionally, for Instagram users, more frequent alcohol use in the third wave was at least partially attributed to drinking frequency in the first wave. Working/studying from home and employment (rather than job loss) were associated with greater consumption in the third wave.
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Business
Mark J. Pelletier, Alisha Blakeney Horky, Alexa K. Fox
Summary: Although Facebook is popular globally, public trust in the site is decreasing, leading to some users exiting the platform or reducing their engagement. Brands relying on social media may need to adapt their marketing strategies due to changing consumer behaviors and algorithm changes on Facebook. The research explores why users decrease or eliminate their use of Facebook in the post-trust era, using exiting behavior, social capital, and closeness as theoretical frameworks. The findings indicate that users are more likely to express themselves freely and stay on Facebook when interacting with non-family members, but brand-focused and political posts can negatively impact future use.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
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Communication
Patricia Rossini, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Erica Anita Baptista, Vanessa Veiga de Oliveira
Summary: In this study, dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook was found to be common, with nearly a quarter reporting sharing misinformation. However, social corrections were also relatively frequent, especially on WhatsApp. The intimate nature of WhatsApp communication has important implications for facilitating social corrections in misinformation sharing dynamics.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Michael Peer, Mordechai Hayman, Bar Tamir, Shahar Arzy
Summary: Using social media data and fMRI, researchers discovered that the brain encodes social network distance, personal affiliation, and personality traits in different cortical regions, indicating a division in neural representation of social knowledge.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Communication
Paolo Gerbaudo, Ciro Clemente De Falco, Giulia Giorgi, Silvia Keeling, Antonia Murolo, Federica Nunziata
Summary: The rise of right-wing populists in Western Europe has been linked to their ability to exploit social media to fuel anger. This article provides empirical proof that right-wing populists on Facebook have more Angry reactions and shares compared to their political adversaries, especially on topics like immigration and security. These findings highlight the mobilizational effectiveness of negative campaigning and the importance of triggering high-threshold interactions for political message diffusion.
SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
(2023)
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Communication
Benjamin N. Jacobsen, David Beer
Summary: This article explores the impact of social media on shaping people's memories of the past, and the relationship between memory, data, and metrics. It examines how metrics influence memory making and reconstruction of the digital past. Additionally, it discusses the effects of social media likes on emotional memory attachments, and how quantified engagements lead to a sense of competition in approaching the digital past.
SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
(2021)
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Communication
Kenza Lamot, Tim Kreutz, Michael Opgenhaffen
Summary: Social media has become a crucial platform for news presentation and consumption. News media share news on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to reach a wide audience. This study focuses on the conversion and adaptation of news headlines from online news sites to a news medium's Facebook page. The findings show that rewriting headlines on Facebook is common and aims to align with social media logic to increase engagement.
SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
(2022)
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Oceanography
Gouliano Menegale Martnazzo, Eloisa Pinheiro Giareta, Hugo Bornatowski, Vinicius Abilhoa, Matheus Freitas
Summary: Brazil is facing one of the worst environmental crises in history, and data on recreational fishing activities in the coastal area highlight the need for an efficient monitoring system and co-management plans to control and reduce the capture of threatened species.
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Family Studies
Tammy S. Harpel, Kari Gentry Barras
JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES
(2018)
Meeting Abstract
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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Social Work
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(2016)
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Family Studies
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JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES
(2010)
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Economics
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(2008)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Alyssa L. Welte, Tammy Harpel, Julie Schumacher, Jennifer L. Barnes
NUTRITION RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
(2019)