Twitter and health in the Australian context: What types of information are health-related organizations tweeting?

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2666-2675

  Dumbrell, Dan ^a   Steele, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CONDITION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; MICRO-BLOG; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

HEALTH;

EID: 84875497936     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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