Social media definition and the governance challenge: An introduction to the special issue

Using Product Variables of Business-to-Business (B2B) Media to Assess the Impacts of Social Media

“…User power was a concern of the minority of interviewees. The UGC, lifeblood of social media (Obar and Wildman (2015), was only mentioned once. Regarding the free content on social media, the interviewees considered it as a potential competition for audiences' time and attention without further considering their quality values.…”

“…Only by emphasising the information utility of SNS in the second step has the concept of social media concept been fully developed. The concept of user-generated content (UGC) enabled by Web 2.0 technology was critical in all attempts to define social media (e.g., Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010;Kietzmann, Hermkens, McCarthy & Silvestre, 2011;Obar & Wildman, 2015).…”

Social media in medical education: How far have we come?

“…The definition of social media is often misconstrued . In essence social media references technology that enables online interactivity .…”

“…introduced the concept of FOAMed (Free Open Access Medical education) into medical education nomenclature. They affirmed that their reasons were twofold; first, to emphasise gratis access to information, and second, to remove the movement from the negative connotations that the term Social Media had already started conveying in 2012 . The research community has also become more concise with its definitions, now referring to those technologies with a focus on sharing being called Social Networking Sites …”

The future of social media in orthopedic surgery

“…These social media platforms have expanded to become vital networks for patients and physicians to communicate with each other, among each other, and learn from each other's experiences. With an estimated 6.5 million health-related search engine queries per day [4], we believe that the contemporary practicing physician must be aware of these social media outlets and ideally have a deeper understanding and utilization that will allow for the improvement of patient care, patient and physician education, and increases in practice outreach, scope, and volume.…”