Finding meaning in social media: Content-based social network analysis of QuitNet to identify new opportunities for health promotion

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 192, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 807-811

  Myneni, Sahiti ^a   Cobb, Nathan K ^b   Cohen, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior change; content analysis; Online social networks; smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTENT OF MESSAGES; HEALTH PROMOTION; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SMOKING CESSATIONS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEANINGFUL USE CRITERIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEANINGFUL USE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84894348733     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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