Hashtags for gatekeeping of information on social media

Potnis, Devendra; Tahamtan, Iman

doi:10.1002/asi.24467

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“…Attributes of network gatekeeping theory focus on the position, roles and processes used by network gatekeepers to hold on to the political power and reinforce it over gated members (see 2.1.4). For instance, network gatekeeping processes on social media can diminish the power of authorities as a primary source of information (Kwon et al, 2012;Potnis and Tahamtan, 2021). In contrast, our study found the increasing reliance of VBAC members on their group administrators for making data-driven decisions.…”

Section: Value Creation Using Non-value-adding Mechanismscontrasting

confidence: 61%

Role of gatekeeping on Facebook in creating information benefits for vulnerable, pregnant women in the rural United States

Potnis

Halladay

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate why and how gatekeepers on social networking sites (SNS) create what types of information benefits for gated, vulnerable, pregnant women in the rural United States.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative study adopts “network gatekeeping” as a theoretical lens to implement a combination of deductive and inductive qualitative approaches for analyzing in-depth interviews with members and administrators of a Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) Group on Facebook with a membership of over 500 pregnant women in rural Appalachia in the United States.FindingsThe VBAC group administrators' (a) vision of transforming the existing doctor-centric birth culture to a more mother-centric birth culture in the rural United States, (b) expertise and experience in healthcare and (c) valuing scientific, evidence-based information lead to recurring, authoritative but evolving manifestations of combinations of nine network gatekeeping mechanisms. Implementations of nine network gatekeeping mechanisms (i.e. localization, infrastructure, cost effect, channeling, censorship, regulation, editorial, user-interaction and value adding mechanisms) help VBAC group administrators control interactions and information on the group, thereby creating 16 information benefits for the gated, vulnerable women before, during and after pregnancy.Originality/valueThis sociological study of network gatekeeping posits and proves an “information value chain” (i.e. Why to create information benefits? – How to create information benefits? – What types of information benefits?) for vulnerable, pregnant women on Facebook. Rarely any study shows the role of network gatekeeping mechanisms in implementing an information value chain.

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Section: Value Creation Using Non-value-adding Mechanismscontrasting

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Role of gatekeeping on Facebook in creating information benefits for vulnerable, pregnant women in the rural United States

Potnis

Halladay

2021

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“…Hashtags and the stories that form around them can become part of people’s social reality and inform their worldviews [ 24 ]. For instance, Twitter and hashtags can be used to enhance information dissemination, publicize the movement, invite new people to the movement, enhance its visibility, broadcast messages to broader audiences, and attract people’s attention [ 25 , 26 ].…”

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The Mutual Influence of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Twitter Users During COVID-19: Network Agenda-Setting Analysis

Tahamtan¹,

Potnis²,

Mohammadi³

et al. 2022

J Med Internet Res

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Background Little is known about the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in communicating with the public on social media during a global health emergency. More specifically, there is no study about the relationship between the agendas of the WHO and Twitter users during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective This study utilizes the network agenda-setting model to investigate the mutual relationship between the agenda of the WHO’s official Twitter account and the agenda of 7.5 million of its Twitter followers regarding COVID-19. Methods Content analysis was applied to 7090 tweets posted by the WHO on Twitter from January 1, 2020, to July 31, 2020, to identify the topics of tweets. The quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) was used to investigate the relationship between the WHO agenda network and the agenda network of the 6 Twitter user categories, including “health care professionals,” “academics,” “politicians,” “print and electronic media,” “legal professionals,” and the “private sector.” Additionally, 98 Granger causality statistical tests were performed to determine which topic in the WHO agenda had an effect on the corresponding topic in each Twitter user category and vice versa. Results Content analysis revealed 7 topics that reflect the WHO agenda related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including “prevention,” “solidarity,” “charity,” “teamwork,” “ill-effect,” “surveillance,” and “credibility.” Results of the QAP showed significant and strong correlations between the WHO agenda network and the agenda network of each Twitter user category. These results provide evidence that WHO had an overall effect on different types of Twitter users on the identified topics. For instance, the Granger causality tests indicated that the WHO tweets influenced politicians and print and electronic media about “surveillance.” The WHO tweets also influenced academics and the private sector about “credibility” and print and electronic media about “ill-effect.” Additionally, Twitter users affected some topics in the WHO. For instance, WHO followers affected “charity” and “prevention” in the WHO. Conclusions This paper extends theorizing on agenda setting by providing empirical evidence that agenda-setting effects vary by topic and types of Twitter users. Although prior studies showed that network agenda setting is a “one-way” model, the novel findings of this research confirm a “2-way” or “multiway” effect of agenda setting on social media due to the interactions between the content creators and audiences. The WHO can determine which topics should be promoted on social media during different phases of a pandemic and collaborate with other public health gatekeepers to collectively make them salient in the public.

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“…The use of hashtags in tweets can also bring users with similar interests together on social media, form communities (Potnis & Tahamtan, 2021), and consequently set a public agenda on social media (Hemsley, 2019;Potnis & Tahamtan, 2021). Nevertheless, this study provides some preliminary evidence on the presence of a network agenda-setting effect on social media by the shared scholarly publications.…”

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Investigating dissemination of scientific information on Twitter: A study of topic networks in opioid publications

Haunschild

Bornmann

Potnis

et al. 2021

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While previous research has mostly focused on the “number of mentions” of scientific research on social media, the current study applies “topic networks” to measure public attention to scientific research on Twitter. Topic networks are the networks of co-occurring author keywords in scholarly publications and networks of co-occurring hashtags in the tweets mentioning those publications. This study investigates which topics in opioid scholarly publications have received public attention on Twitter. Additionally, it investigates whether the topic networks generated from the publications tweeted by all accounts (bot and non-bot accounts) differ from those generated by non-bot accounts. Our analysis is based on a set of opioid publications from 2011 to 2019 and the tweets associated with them. Results indicated that Twitter users have mostly used generic terms to discuss opioid publications, such as “Pain,” “Addiction,” “Analgesics,” “Abuse,” “Overdose,” and “Disorders.” There was a substantial overlap between the topic networks based on the tweets by all accounts and non-bot accounts. This result indicates that it might not be necessary to exclude bot accounts for generating topic networks as they have a negligible impact on the results. This study provided some preliminary evidence that scholarly publications have a network agenda-setting effect on Twitter.

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Hashtags for gatekeeping of information on social media

Cited by 29 publications

References 59 publications

Role of gatekeeping on Facebook in creating information benefits for vulnerable, pregnant women in the rural United States

Role of gatekeeping on Facebook in creating information benefits for vulnerable, pregnant women in the rural United States

The Mutual Influence of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Twitter Users During COVID-19: Network Agenda-Setting Analysis

Investigating dissemination of scientific information on Twitter: A study of topic networks in opioid publications

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