What Do People Like to “Share” About Obesity? A Content Analysis of Frequent Retweets About Obesity on Twitter

Health Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 193-206

  So, Jiyeon ^a   Prestin, Abby ^b   Lee, Lyndon ^a   Wang, Yafei ^c   Yen, John ^c   Chou, Wen Ying Sylvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMOR; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIUM; OBESITY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL MEDIA;

ALGORITHMS; EMOTIONS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIA; OBESITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 84945440211     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.940675     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. T.Agurs-Collins,, & C.Bouchard, (2008). Gene–nutrition and gene–physical activity interactions in the etiology of obesity. Obesity,16, S2–S4. doi:10.1038/oby.2008.510
2. J.Bardzell,, S.Bardzell,, & T.Pace, (2009). Understanding affective interaction: Emotion, engagement, and internet videos. In Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. New York, NY: IEEE. doi:10.1109/ACII.2009.5349551
3. H.Berenbaum, (2002). Varieties of joy-related pleasurable activities and feelings. Cognition & Emotion,16, 473–494. doi:10.1080/0269993014000383
4. J.Berger,, & K.L.Milkman, (2012). What makes online content viral? Journal of Marketing Research,49, 192–205. doi:10.1509/jmr.10.0353
5. R.J.Blendon,, K.Hunt,, J.M.Benson,, C.Fleischfresser,, & T.Buhr, (2006). Understanding the American public’s health priorities: A 2006 perspective. Health Affairs,25, w508–w515. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.25.w508
6. N.Boero, (2007). All the news that’s fat to print: The American “obesity epidemic” and the media. Qualitative Sociology,30, 41–60. doi:10.1007/s11133-006-9010-4
7. D.Boyd,, S.Golder,, & G.Lotan, (2010). Tweet, tweet, retweet: Conversational aspects of retweeting on Twitter. In Proceedings of HICSS’10. New York, NY: ACM Press. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2010.412
8. M.R.Brown,, R.K.Bhadury,, & N.K.L.Pope, (2010). The impact of comedic violence on viral advertising effectiveness. Journal of Advertising,39, 49–65. doi:10.2753/JOA0091-3367390104
9. M.Buijzen,, & P.Valkenburg, (2004). Developing a typology of humor in audiovisual media. Media Psychology,6, 147–167. doi:10.1207/s1532785xmep0602_2
10. C.Chew,, & G.Eysenbach, (2010). Pandemics in the age of Twitter: Content analysis of tweets during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak. PLoS ONE,11, 1–13. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014118
11. W.S.Chou,, A.Prestin,, & S.Kunath, (2014). Obesity in social media: A mixed methods analysis. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 1–10. doi:10.1007/s13142-014-0256-1.
12. V.Christophe,, & B.Rimé, (1997). Exposure to the social sharing of emotion: Emotional impact, listener responses and secondary social sharing. European Journal of Social Psychology,27, 37–54. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(199701)27:1<37::AID-EJSP806>3.0.CO;2-1
13. E.L.Cohen,, M.D.Shumate,, & A.Gold, (2007). Anti-smoking media campaign messages: Theory and practice. Health Communication,22, 91–102. doi:10.1080/10410230701453884
14. A.Dobele,, A.Lindgreen,, M.Beverland,, J.Vanhamme,, & R.van Wijk, (2007). Why pass on viral messages? Because they connect emotionally. Business Horizons,50, 291–304. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2007.01.004
15. P.Eckler,, & P.Bolls, (2011). Spreading the virus: Emotional tone of viral advertising and its effect on forwarding intentions and attitudes. Journal of Interactive Advertising,11, 1–11. doi:10.1080/15252019.2011.10722180
16. L.Festinger, (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
17. B.Fischhoff,, P.Slovic,, S.Lichtenstein,, S.Read,, & B.Combs, (1978). How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits. Policy Sciences,9, 127–152. doi:10.1007/BF00143739
18. M.Fishbein,, K.Hall-Jamieson,, E.Zimmer,, I.Haeften,, & R.Nabi, (2002). Avoiding the boomerang: Testing the relative effectiveness of antidrug public service announcements before a national campaign. American Journal of Public Health,92, 238–245. doi:10.2105/AJPH.92.2.238
19. K.M.Flegal,, M.D.Carroll,, C.L.Ogden,, & C.L.Johnson, (2002). Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999–2000. Journal of the American Medical Association,288, 1723–1727. doi:10.1001/jama.288.14.1723
20. B.L.Fredrickson, (1998). What good are positive emotions? Review of General Psychology,2, 300–319. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.2.3.300
21. V.Freimuth,, S.L.Hammond,, T.Edgar,, & J.L.Monahan, (1990). Reaching those at risk: A content-analytic study of AIDS PSAs. Communication Research,17, 775–791. doi:10.1177/009365029001700604
22. N.H.Frijda, (1986). The emotions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
23. C.Heath,, C.Bell,, & E.Sternberg, (2001). Emotional selection in memes: The case of urban legends. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,81, 1028–1041. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.81.6.1028
24. A.Holton,, & S.Lewis, (2011). Journalists, social media, and the use of humor on Twitter. Electronic Journal of Communication,21, 1–21.
25. R.Hornik, (2002). Public health communication: Making sense of contradictory evidence. In R.Hornik (Ed.), Public health communication: Evidence for behavior change (3rd ed., pp. 1–19). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
26. B.Huberman,, D.M.Romero,, & F.Wu, (2009). Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope. First Monday,14, 1–5. doi:arXiv:0812.1045v1
27. D.J.Hughes,, M.Rowe,, M.Batey,, & A.Lee, (2012). A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage. Computers in Human Behavior,28, 561–569. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2011.11.001
28. S.Jeong,, & Y.Hwang, (2007, November). News about obesity: A content analysis of news coverage of the issue of obesity from 1985 to 2005. Chicago, IL: National Communication Association.
29. R.F.S.Job, (1988). Effective and ineffective use of fear in health promotion campaigns. American Journal of Public Health,78, 163–167. doi:10.2105/AJPH.78.2.163
30. S.-H.Kim,, & L.A.Willis, (2007). Talking about obesity: News framing of who is responsible for causing and fixing the problem. Journal of Health Communication,12, 359–376. doi:10.1080/10810730701326051
31. S.Knobloch-Westerwick,, & J.Meng, (2009). Looking the other way: Selective exposure to attitude-consistent and counterattitudinal political information. Communication Research,36, 426–448. doi:10.1177/0093650209333030
32. K.Krippendorff, (2004). Reliability in content analysis: Some common misconceptions and recommendations. Human Communication Research,30, 411–433. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.2004.tb00738.x
33. H.Kwak,, C.Lee,, H.Park,, & S.Moon, (2010). What is Twitter: A social network or a news media. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 591–600). New York, NY: ACM. doi:10.1145/1772690.1772751
34. E.Lee,, & S.Y.Oh, (2013). Seek and you shall find? How need for orientation moderates knowledge gain from Twitter use. Journal of Communication,63, 745–765. doi:10.1111/jcom.12041
35. J.Y.Lee,, & S.S.Sundar, (2013). To tweet or to retweet? That is the question for health professionals on Twitter. Health Communication,28, 509–524. doi:10.1080/10410236.2012.700391
36. A.Lindgreen,, & J.Vanhamme, (2005). Viral marketing: The use of surprise. In I.C.Clarke & T.B.Flaherty (Eds.), Advances in electronic marketing (pp. 122–138). Hershey, PA: Idea Group.
37. E.Masland, (2001). Viral marketing word of mouth comes of age. Websolvers, Inc. Retrieved from http://www.websolvers.com/portfolio/papers/viral.asp
38. Merriam-Webster Online. (2014). Definition of “derogatory.” Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/derogatory
39. National Research Corporation. (2011). 1 in 5 Americans use social media for health care information. Retrieved from http://hcmg.nationalresearch.com/public/News.aspx?ID=9
40. N.Naveed,, T.Gottron,, J.Kunegis,, & A.C.Alhadi, (2011). Bad news travels fast: A content-based analysis of interestingness on Twitter. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Web Science Conference (pp. 1–7). Koblenx, Germany. doi:10.1145/2527031.2527052
41. B.Neiger,, R.Thackeray,, S.Van Wagenen,, C.Hanson,, J.West,, M.Barnes,, & M.Fagen, (2012). Use of social media in health promotion: Purposes, key performance indicators, and evaluation metrics. Health Promotion Practice,13, 159–164. doi:10.1177/1524839911433467
42. C.L.Ogden,, M.D.Carroll,, B.K.Kit,, & K.M.Flegal, (2014). Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States, 2011–2012. Journal of American Medical Association,311, 806–814. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.732
43. J.E.Oliver,, & T.Lee, (2005). Public opinion and the politics of obesity in America. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law,30, 923–954. doi:10.1215/03616878-30-5-923
44. H.Park,, S.Rodgers,, & J.Stemmle, (2013). Analyzing health organizations’ use of Twitter for promoting health literacy. Journal of Health Communication,18, 410–425. doi:10.1080/10810730.2012.727956
45. M.J.Paul,, & M.Dredze, (2011). You are what you tweet: Analyzing Twitter for public health. In Proceedings of the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (pp. 265–272). Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.
46. K.E.Peterson, (1992). The use of humor in AIDS prevention, in the treatment of HIV-positive persons, and in the remediation of caregiver burnout. In M.R.Seilson & K.E.Peterson (Eds.), AIDS prevention and treatment: Hope, humor, and healing (pp. 37–57). New York, NY: Hemisphere.
47. J.E.Phelps,, R.Lewis,, L.Mobilio,, D.Perry,, & N.Raman, (2004). Viral marketing or electronic word-of-mouth advertising: Examining consumer responses and motivations to pass along email. Journal of Advertising Research,44, 333–348. doi:10.1017/S0021849904040371
48. L.Porter,, & G.J.Golan, (2006). From subservient chickens to brawny men: A comparison of viral advertising to television advertising. Journal of Interactive Advertising,6, 4–33. doi:10.1080/15252019.2006.10722116
49. R.M.Puhl,, & K.D.Brownell, (2003). Ways of coping with obesity stigma: Review and conceptual analysis. Eating Behaviors,4, 53–78. doi:10.1016/S1471-0153(02)00096-X
50. R.M.Puhl,, & C.A.Heuer, (2009). The stigma of obesity: A review and update. Obesity,17, 941–964. doi:10.1038/oby.2008.636
51. B.Rimé, (1995). The social sharing of emotion as a source for the social knowledge of emotion. In J.A. Russell, J.-M. Fernández-Dols, A.S.R. Manstead, & J.C. Wellenkamp (Eds.), Everyday conceptions of emotion: An introduction to the psychology, anthropology, and linguistics of emotion (pp. 475–489). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.
52. B.Rimé,, B.Mesquita,, S.Boca,, & P.Philippot, (1991). Beyond the emotional event: Six studies on the social sharing of emotion. Cognition and Emotion,5, 435–465. doi:10.1080/02699939108411052
53. B.Rimé,, P.Philippot,, S.Boca,, & B.Mesquita, (1992). Long-lasting cognitive and social consequences of emotion: Social sharing and rumination. European Review of Social Psychology,3, 225–258. doi:10.1080/14792779243000078
54. W.Ruch, (1993). Exhilaration and humor. In M.Lewis & J.M.Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (pp. 605–616). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
55. M.Salathé, & S.Khandelwal, (2011). Assessing vaccination sentiments with online social media: Implications for infectious disease dynamics and control. PLoS Computational Biology,7, 1–7. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002199
56. D.Scanfeld,, V.Scanfeld,, & E.L.Larson, (2010). Dissemination of health information through social networks: Twitter and antibiotics. American Journal of Infection Control,38, 182–188. doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2009.11.004
57. D.Shamma,, J.Yew,, L.Kennedy,, & E.F.Churchill, (2011). Viral actions: Predicting video view counts using synchronous sharing behaviors. In Proceedings of the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (pp. 618–621). New York, NY: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/2527031.2527052
58. P.Shaver,, J.Schwartz,, D.Kirson,, & C.O’Connor, (1987). Emotion knowledge: Further exploration of a prototype approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,52, 1061–1086. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.52.6.1061
59. R.S.Strauss,, & H.A.Pollack, (2003). Social marginalization of overweight children. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,157, 746–752. doi:10.1001/archpedi.157.8.746
60. Twitter. (2013). Celebrating #Twitter7. Retrieved from https://blog.twitter.com/2013/celebrating-twitter7
61. C.Wang,, & E.J.Coups, (2010). Causal beliefs about obesity and associated health behaviors: Results from a population-based survey. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity,7, 19. doi:10.1186/1479-5868-7-19
62. J.H.Yoo,, & J.Kim, (2012). Obesity in the new media: A content analysis of obesity videos on YouTube. Health Communication,27, 86–97. doi:10.1080/10410236.2011.569003