Towards understanding how individuals with inflammatory bowel disease use contemporary social media platforms for health-related discourse

O'Leary, Kate; Coulson, Neil; Perez-Vallejos, Elvira; McAuley, Derek

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2020.106463

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“…Articles in this category include research of affordances for a specific field (e.g. O’Leary et al, 2020; Valenzuela et al, 2018) and the analysis of one affordance (or a few) across multiple platforms (e.g. Duffy et al, 2017; Kligler-Vilenchik et al, 2020).…”

Section: Affordances In Social Media Research: Review and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review

Ronzhyn

Cardenal

Rubio

2022

New Media & Society

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An increasingly influential strand of research on social media relies on the concept of affordances to account for effects. However, hindering the possibility of a unified theory of affordances in social media is the conceptual blurring surrounding the concept. This article engages in a comprehensive review of the affordances literature in social media, aiming to provide an overview of the current state of the art and clarify the use of the concept. Through a systematic literature review, the characteristics of affordances research in social media are uncovered: the most prominent areas of application, research approaches, and dominant typologies and conceptualisations. Significant blurriness of the term ‘affordance’ is identified as well as an inconsistent use in research. To tackle these problems, a unified definition of affordances in social media is proposed based on the synthesis of knowledge on affordances in technology and social media. The suggested definition captures the core aspects of the concept to reduce ambiguity in the use of the concept and further the research on affordances of social media. The article provides the groundwork for future use of affordances theory in social media research.

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Section: Affordances In Social Media Research: Review and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review

Ronzhyn

Cardenal

Rubio

2022

New Media & Society

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“…They separate public posting on one's news feed which is open to all Facebook friends and posting in a closed group with a common denominator and deeper meaning, whose members disclose and share private information while expecting and trusting members not to take the information out of the group. O'Leary et al. (2020) have shown that members are sometimes concerned that disclosing private medical information will damage their reputation, employment opportunities and personal safety.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Medical support groups encourage their members to take better care of themselves by providing information on healthy living and positive thoughts, and subsequently, they better assess their health status. On the other hand, members sometimes fear that exposing private medical information will harm their reputation, employment opportunities and personal safety and may be abused by other group members, admins or third parties (O'Leary et al, 2020). Moreover, exposure to erroneous medical information can be dangerous, may strengthen preexisting misinformed beliefs and lead to unhealthy decisions (Pagoto et al, 2019).…”

Section: Facebook Medical Support Groupsmentioning

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Facebook medical support groups: the communication privacy management perspective

Avizohar

Gazit

Aharony

2022

AJIM

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PurposeExploring the considerations that guide and influence members of Facebook medical support groups to disclose private information.Design/methodology/approachThe sample included 293 participants, aged 18–85 years, who answered an online survey, 155 members of Facebook medical support groups and 138 members of other Facebook groups.FindingsMembers of medical support groups attach greater importance to privacy policy, give greater value to privacy and reveal more private information, compared to members of other groups. Members of medical support groups tend to feel that they receive more support and feel that the privacy policy preserves their privacy much more. These feelings are associated with greater self-disclosure of groups' members.Originality/valueThe research insights will help medical support groups' members and admins to put into action the fundamental right to privacy and build a set of rules tailored to their individual and group needs.

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“…For example, users may use private or encrypted communication for talking to certain people but might opt for public-facing platforms to reach a wider audience. Different affordances of platforms can also contribute to a greater degree of the disclosure; for example, if users feel as if what they say will not be shared beyond that group (O’Leary et al, 2020). This can be good, as platforms can specialize in different types of content and build both mass and niche user bases.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Comparing the #StopTheSteal Movement across Multiple Platforms: Differentiating Discourse on Facebook, Twitter, and Parler

Chen,

Lukito,

Koo

2023

Social Media + Society

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Given that political groups are dispersed across platforms, resulting in different discourses, there is a need for more studies comparing communication across platforms. In this study, we compared posts about #StopTheSteal from three social media platforms after the 2020 US Presidential election and preceding the January 6 Capitol Riot. To do so, we utilized Snow and Benford’s typology of social movement frames—diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational frames—in the context of far-right movements and an additional frame device: violence cues. This study focused on the following three social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and Parler. We built three corpora of social media data: 26,093 Facebook posts, 248,643 tweets, and 400,600 Parler posts. Using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) classifiers, dictionary methods, and qualitative text analysis, we find that the use of these frames varies by platform, with users on the alt-tech platform Parler using violence cues such as “smash” and “combat,” suggesting a greater call to action relative to the mainstream platforms.

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Towards understanding how individuals with inflammatory bowel disease use contemporary social media platforms for health-related discourse

Cited by 14 publications

References 58 publications

Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review

Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review

Facebook medical support groups: the communication privacy management perspective

Comparing the #StopTheSteal Movement across Multiple Platforms: Differentiating Discourse on Facebook, Twitter, and Parler

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