Measuring audience engagement for public health Twitter chats: Insights from #LiveFitNOLA

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Rabarison, Kristina M ^a   Croston, Merriah A ^a   Englar, Naomi K ^b   Bish, Connie L ^a   Flynn, Shelbi M ^c   Johnson, Carolyn C ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c New Orleans Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Content analysis; Public health; Social media; Social network analysis; Twitter; Twitter chat

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102389983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.7181     Document Type: Article

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