COMM 611: Communication Technology and Healthcare Weeks 1-15, Thursdays 12:30-3:20 pm, ASC 230 Instructor: Margaret McLaughlin margaretlmclaughlin@gmail.com Office Phone: 213-740-3938 Office Hour: 1:30 pm Mondays or by appointment Office: 301-D Annenberg School Description: Class Requirements: There will be two primary assignments First, each student will be responsible for preparing slides on the readings for two class days (40% of grade). The student should select five of the articles to report on, or pick them all where only five are listed. The student should be prepared to lead the class discussion and to supplement his or her presentation with interesting relevant materials from the web including videos, web sites, etc. Students not presenting will be expected to have read at least two of the listed articles prior to coming to class and to be prepared to discuss them The second assignment is to be completed on the last class day: an oral presentation with slides of a literature review on a topic area of their choice within the larger field of health and social media (60% of grade). The topic should be different from the one for which they prepared the class discussion. Possible topics might be online hospital review sites, how medical students use professional social networks, self-tracking with friends, crowdfunding for clinical trials, proprietary health and fitness social networks, etc. The presentation should focus on the principal findings of the literature review. It should include at least fifteen references and conclude with suggested research questions or testable hypotheses that would advance the conversation in that research area. Students should upload their slides to Blackboard on the day of the presentation.

Week 1 Thursday January 11 Overview

Week 2 Thursday January 18 Online Interventions to Change Health Behavior

Week 3 Thursday January 25 Diversity and Disparities in Health Communication Technology

Week 4 Thursday February 1 Physicians on Social Media

Week 5 Thursday Febraary 8 Use of Social Media by Hospitals and Public Health Agencies

Week 6 Thursday February 15 Online Reviews of Doctors and Hospitals

Week 7 Thursday February 22 Health Information Seeking on Social Media

Week 8 Thursday March 1 Use of Social Media for Social Support

Week 9 Thursday March 8 Use of Social Media to Promote Unhealthy Choices, 1

Spring Break!!

Week 10 Thursday March 22 Use of Social Media to Promote Unhealthy Choices, 2

Week 11 Thursday March 29 Infodemiology and Infoveillance, 1

Week 12 Thursday April 5 Infodemiology and Inforveillance, 2

Week 13 Thursday April 12 Using Social Media for Health Promotion

Week 14 Thursday April 19 Optional Topic

Week 15 Thursday April 26 Presentation of Final Projects

Overview Loiselle CG, Ahmed S (2017) Is Connected Health Contributing to a Healthier Population? J Med Internet Res 2017;19(11):e386 http://www.jmir.org/2017/11/e386 Zhang Y, Lauche R, Sibbritt D, Olaniran B, Cook R, Adams J. (2017). Comparison of Health Information Technology Use Between American Adults With and Without Chronic Health Conditions: Findings From The National Health Interview Survey 2012 J Med Internet Res 2017;19(10):e335 http://www.jmir.org/2017/10/e335 Petrič G, Atanasova S, Kamin T (2017). Ill Literates or Illiterates? Investigating the eHealth Literacy of Users of Online Health Communities. J Med Internet Res 2017;19(10):e331 http://www.jmir.org/2017/10/e331 Iftikhar R,, & Abaalkhail B (2017). Health-Seeking Influence Reflected by Online Health-Related Messages Received on Social Media: Cross-Sectional Survey J Med Internet Res 2017;19(11):e382 http://www.jmir.org/2017/11/e382 Grajales, F. J., III, Sheps, S., Ho, K., Novak-Lauscher, H., & Eysenbach, G. (2014). Social media: A review and tutorial of applications in medicine and health care. Journal of Medical Internet Research,16(2), 452-474. Korda, H., & Itani, Z. (2013). Harnessing social media for health promotion and behavior change. Health Promotion Practice, 14(1), 15-23. Moorhead, S. A., Hazlett, D. E., Harrison, L. Carroll, J. K., Irwin, A., & Hoving, C. (2013). A new dimension of health care: Systematic review of the uses, benefits, and limitations of social media for health communication. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 15(4), e85. Fox, S. The social life of health information (2014). Pew Internet and American Life Project. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/15/the-social-life-of-health-information Pew Research Center (2015). US smartphone use in 2015. http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2015/03/PI_Smartphones_0401151.pdf CDC SocialWorks. (2015). http://www.cdc.gov/healthcommworks/ Online Interventions to Change Health Behavior Gustafson DH, DuBenske LL, Atwood AK, Chih MY, Johnson RA, McTavish F, Quanbeck A, Brown RL, Cleary JF, Shah D. (2017). Reducing Symptom Distress in Patients With

Advanced Cancer Using an e-Alert System for Caregivers: Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Clinical Trials J Med Internet Res 2017;19(11):e354 http://www.jmir.org/2017/11/e354 Scholten MR, Kelders SM, Van Gemert-Pijnen JE (2017). Self-Guided Web-Based Interventions: Scoping Review on User Needs and the Potential of Embodied Conversational Agents to Address Them. J Med Internet Res 2017;19(11):e383 http://www.jmir.org/2017/11/e383 Shaw, J. M, Mitchell, C. A., Welch, A. J., & Williamson, M. J. (2015). Social media used as a health intervention in adolescent health: A systematic review of the literature. Digital Health, 0(0), 1-10. doi:10.1177/2055207615588395 Shaw, J. M, Mitchell, C. A., Welch, A. J., & Williamson, M. J. (2015). Social media used as a health intervention in adolescent health: A systematic review of the literature. Digital Health, 0(0), 1-10. doi:10.1177/2055207615588395 Maher, V. S., Lewis, L. K., Ferrar, K., Marshall, S., De Bourdeaudhuij,I., & Vandelanotte, C. (2014). Are health behavior change interventions that use online social networks effective? A systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16(2), e40. Napolitano, M. A., Hayes, S., Bennett, G. G., Ives, A. K., & Foster, G. D. (2013). Using Facebook and text messaging to deliver a weight loss program to college students. Obesity, 21(1), 25-31. Bull, S. S., Levine, D. K., Black, S. R., Schmiege, S.J., & Santelli, J. (2012). Social media–delivered sexual health intervention: A cluster randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 43(5), 467-474. Moreno, M. A., Grant, A., Kacvinsky, L., Egan, K.G., & Fleming, M. F. (2012). College students’ alcohol displays on Facebook: Intervention considerations. Journal of American College Health, 60(5), 388-394. Sociotechnical Challenges and Progress in Using Social Media for Health Sean A Munson, Hasan Cavusoglu, Larry Frisch, Sidney Fels J Med Internet Res 2013 (Oct 22); 15(10):e226 HTML (open access): http://www.jmir.org/2013/10/e226/ PDF (members only): http://www.jmir.org/2013/10/e226/PDF Diversity and disparities in health communication technology

Jashinsky, J., Burton, S. H., Hanson, C. L., West, J., Giraud-Carrier, C., Barnes, M. D., & Argyle, T. (2015). Tracking suicide risk factors through Twitter in the US. Crisis, 35(1), 51-59. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000234

Ems, L., & Gonzales, A. L. (2015). Subculture-centered public health communication: A social media strategy. New Media & Society, 1-18, doi: 10.1177/1461444815570294 Mitchell, S. J., Godoy, L., Shabazz, K., & Horn, I. B. (2014). Internet and mobile technology use among urban African American parents: Survey study of a clinical population. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16(1), e9.

O’Mara, B. (2013). Social media, digital video and health promotion in a culturally and linguistically diverse Australia. Health Promotion International, 28(3), 466-476. Spence, P. R., Lachlan, K. A., Spates, S. A., & Lin, X. (2013). Intercultural differences in responses to health messages on social media from spokespeople with varying levels of ethnic identity. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(3), 1255-1259. Justice-Gardiner, H., Nutt, S., Rechis, R., McMillan, B., & Warf, R. (2012). Using new media to reach Hispanic/Latino cancer survivors. Journal of Cancer Education, 27(1), 100-104. Physicians on social media

Panahi, S., Watson, J., & Partridge, H. (2014). Social media and physicians: Exploring the benefits and challenges. Health informatics journal, 1460458214540907. http://jhi.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/07/16/1460458214540907.full.pdf Narayanaswami, P., Gronseth, G., Dubinsky, R., Penfold-Murray, R., Cox, J., Bever Jr, C., ... & Getchius, T. S. (2015). The impact of social media on dissemination and implementation of clinical practice guidelines: a longitudinal observational study. Journal of medical Internet research, 17(8), e193. http://www.jmir.org/2015/8/e193

Frankish, K., Ryan, C., & Harris, A. (2012). Psychiatry and online social media: Potential, pitfalls and ethical guidelines for psychiatrists and trainees. Australasian Psychiatry, 20(3), 181-187. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856212447881

Moubarak, G., Guiot, A., Benhamou, Y., Benhamou, A., & Hariri, S. (2011). Facebook activity of residents and fellows and its impact on the doctor-patient relationship. Journal of Medical Ethics: Journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics, 37(2), 101-104. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.2010.036293

Stewart, S. , & Abidi, S. (2012). Applying social network analysis to understand the knowledge sharing behaviour of practitioners in a clinical online discussion forum. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(6):e170) doi:10.2196/jmir.1982. http://www.jmir.org/2012/6/e170/

Use of social media by hospitals, medical centers and public health agencies

Woods SS, Forsberg CW, Schwartz EC, Nazi KM, Hibbard JH, Houston TK, Gerrity M (2017) The Association of Patient Factors, Digital Access, and Online Behavior on Sustained Patient Portal Use: A Prospective Cohort of Enrolled Users J Med Internet Res 2017;19(10):e345 http://www.jmir.org/2017/10/e345 Griffis, H. M., Kilaru, A. S., Werner, R. M., Asch, D. A., Hershey, J. C., Hill, S., ... & Merchant, R. M. (2014). Use of social media across US hospitals: descriptive analysis of adoption and utilization. Journal of medical Internet research, 16(11). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4260061/

Van de Belt, T., Berben, S., Samsom, M., Engelen, L., & Schoonhoven, L. (2012). Use of social media by Western European hospitals: Longitudinal study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(3):e61) doi:10.2196/jmir.1992. http://www.jmir.org/2012/3/e61/

Merchant, R. M., Elmer, S., & Lurie, N. (2011). Integrating social media into emergency-preparedness efforts. The New England Journal of Medicine, 365(4), 289-291. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1103591

Anderson, N. B., & Söderqvist, T. (2012). Social media and public health research. http://www.museion.ku.dk/wp-content/uploads/FINAL-Social-Media-and-Public-Health-Research.pdf

Nelson, R., Joos, I., & Wolf, D. (2013). Social media for nurses. New York: Springer Publishing Company. Chapter 9: Professional Guidelines, Policies, Regulations, and Laws Impacting Health-Related Social Media Communication

Kordzadeh, N., & Young, D. (2015). Understanding How Hospitals Use Social Media: An Exploratory Study of Facebook Posts. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2015/VirtualComm/GeneralPresentations/4/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s Hospital Compare tool

Online reviews of doctors and hospitals

Okike K, Peter-Bibb TK, Xie KC, Okike, ON. Association Between Physician Online Rating and Quality of Care J Med Internet Res 2016;18(12):e324 DOI: 10.2196/jmir.6612

Wallace, B. C., Paul, M. J., Sarkar, U., Trikalinos, T. A., & Dredze, M. (2014). A large-scale quantitative analysis of latent factors and sentiment in online doctor reviews. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 21(6), 1098-1103. http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/6/1098.short Kilaru, A. S., Meisel, Z. F., Paciotti, B., Ha, Y. P., Smith, R. J., Ranard, B. L., & Merchant, R. M. (2015). What do patients say about emergency departments in online reviews? A qualitative study. BMJ quality & safety, bmjqs-2015. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Austin_Kilaru/publication/280447732_What_do_patients_say_about_emergency_departments_in_online_reviews_A_qualitative_study/links/55d12a1c08ae6a881385ea5a.pdf Hanauer, D. A., Zheng, K., Singer, D. C., Gebremariam, A., & Davis, M. M. (2014). Parental awareness and use of online physician rating sites. Pediatrics, 134(4), e966-e975. Segal, J., Sacopulos, M., Sheets, V., Thurston, I., Brooks, K., & Puccia, R. (2012). Online doctor reviews: Do they track surgeon volume, a proxy for quality of care? Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(2):e50) doi:10.2196/jmir.2005. http://www.jmir.org/2012/2/e50/ Gao, G. G., McCulloch, J. S., Agarwal, R., & Jha, A. (2012). A changing landscape of physician quality reporting: Analysis of patients’ online ratings of their physicians over a 5-year period, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(1), e38.

Bardach, N. S., Asteria-Penaloza, R., Boscardin, W. J., & Dudley, R. A. (2012).The relationship between commercial website ratings and traditional hospital performance measures in the USA. BMJ Qual Saf bmjqs-2012-001360Published Online First: 23 November 2012 Greaves, F., Pape, U., King, D., Darzi, A., Majeed, A., Wachter, R., & Millett, C. (2012). Associations between internet-based patient ratings and conventional surveys of patient experience in the English NHS: An observational study. BMJ Qual Saf;21:600e605. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2012-000906 Health information seeking and sharing on social media McLaughlin, M. L., Hou, J., Meng, J., Hu, C. W., An, Z., Park, M., & Nam, Y. (2016). Propagation of information about Preexposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention through Twitter. Health communication, 31(8), 998-1007.

Agree, E. M., King, A. C., Castro, C. M., Wiley, A., & Borzekowski, D. L. (2015). “It’s Got to Be on This Page”: Age and Cognitive Style in a Study of Online Health Information Seeking. Journal of medical Internet research, 17(3). http://www.jmir.org/2015/3/e79/ Li, N., Orrange, S., Kravitz, R. L., & Bell, R. A. (2014). Reasons for and predictors of patients’ online health information seeking following a medical appointment. Family practice, 31(5), 550-556. http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/5/550.full Marton, C., & Choo, C. (2012). A review of theoretical models of health information seeking on the web. Journal of Documentation, 68 (3), 330-352. 10.1108/00220411211225575 Lee, Y. J., Boden-Albala, B., Larson, E., Wilcox, A., & Bakken, S. (2014). Online health information seeking behaviors of Hispanics in New York City: a community-based cross-sectional study. Journal of medical Internet research, 16(7). http://www.jmir.org/2014/7/e176/ Rhebergen, M., Lenderink, A. F., vanDijk, F., & Hulshof, C. (2012). Comparing the use of an online expert health network against common information sources to answer health questions. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(1):e9) doi:10.2196/jmir.1886 Hu, X., Bell, R., Kravitz, R., & Orrange, S. The Prepared Patient: Information Seeking of Online Support Group Members Before Their Medical Appointments (2012). Journal of Health Communication, 17(8), 960-978. doi:10.1080/10810730.2011.650828 Use of social media for social support Yin, Z., Fabbri, D., Rosenbloom, S. T., & Malin, B. (2015). A scalable framework to detect personal health mentions on Twitter. Journal of medical Internet research, 17(6). DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4305 Chong, E. S. K., Zhang, Y., Mak, W. W. S., & Pang, I. H. Y. (2015). Social media as social capital of LGB individuals in Hong Kong—Its relations with group membership, stigma,

and mental well–being. American Journal of Community Psychology, 55(1), 228-238. doi:10.1007/s10464-014-9699-2 Walker, K. K. (2015). A content analysis of cognitive and affective uses of patient support groups for rare and uncommon vascular diseases: Comparisons of May Thurner, thoracic outlet, and superior mesenteric artery syndrome. Health Communication, 30(9), 859-871. doi:10.1080/10410236.2013.853225 Chung, J. (2014). Social networking in online support groups for health: How online social networking benefits patients. Journal of Health Communication, 16(6), 639-659. Han, J. Y., Hou, J., Kim, E., & Gustafson, D.H. (2014). Lurking as an active participation process: A longitudinal investigation of engagement with an online cancer support group. Health Communication, 29(9), 911-923. Can Anonymous Posters on Medical Forums be Reidentified? Victoria Bobicev, Marina Sokolova, Khaled El Emam, Yasser Jafer, Brian Dewar, Elizabeth Jonker, Stan Matwin J Med Internet Res 2013 (Oct 03); 15(10):e215 HTML (open access): http://www.jmir.org/2013/10/e215/ PDF (members only): http://www.jmir.org/2013/10/e215/PDF

De la Torre-Díez I, Díaz-Pernas FJ, & Antón-Rodríguez M. (2012). A content analysis of chronic diseases social groups on Facebook and Twitter. Telemedicine and e-Health, 18(6), 404-408. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2011.0227

Prochaska, J. J., Pechmann, C., Kim, R., & Leonhardt, J. M. (2012). Twitter = quitter? An analysis of twitter quit smoking social networks. Tobacco Control: An International Journal, 21(4), 447-449. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.2010.042507

Kerson, T. S. (2012). Epilepsy postings on YouTube: Exercising individuals' and organizations' right to appear. Social Work in Health Care, 51(10), 927-943. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2012.712634

Use of social media to promote unhealthy choices, 1

Tangherlini TR, Roychowdhury V, Glenn B, Crespi CM, Bandari R, Wadia A, Falahi M, Ebrahimzadeh E, Bastani R “Mommy Blogs” and the Vaccination Exemption Narrative: Results From A Machine-Learning Approach for Story Aggregation on Parenting Social Media Sites JMIR Public Health Surveill 2016;2(2):e166 DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.6586

McNaughton, E. C., Coplan, P. M., Black, R. A., Weber, S. E., Chilcoat, H. D., & Butler, S. F. (2014). Monitoring of Internet forums to evaluate reactions to the introduction of reformulated OxyContin to deter abuse. Journal of Medical Internet Research,16(5):e119 Hanson, C. L., Cannon, B., Burton, S. & Giraud-Carrier. C. (2013). An exploration of social circles and prescription drug abuse through Twitter. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 15(9):e189

**Luxton, D. D., June, J. D., & Fairall, J. M. (2012). Social media and suicide: A public health perspective. American Journal of Public Health, 102, S195-S200. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300608

**Yom-Tiv, E., Fernandez-Luque, L., Weber, I., & Crain, S. (2012).Pro-anorexia and Pro-recovery photo sSharing: A tale of two warring tribes. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(6):e151) doi:10.2196/jmir.2239. http://www.jmir.org/2012/6/e151/

Thomson, G., Wilson, N., & Hoek, J. (2012). Pro-tobacco content in social media: The devil does not have all the best tunes. Journal of Adolescent Health, 50(4), 319-320. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.02.002

*Seidenberg, A. B., Rodgers, E. J., Rees, V. W., & Connolly, G. N. (2012). Youth access, creation, and content of smokeless tobacco ("dip") videos in social media. Journal of Adolescent Health, 50(4), 334-338. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.09.003

**Lewis, S. P., Heath, N. L., Sornberger, M. J., & Arbuthnott, A. E. (2012). Helpful or harmful? An examination of viewers' responses to nonsuicidal self-injury videos on youtube. Journal of Adolescent Health, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.01.013

Use of social media to promote unhealthy choices, 2 Seidenberg, A. B., Rodgers, E. J., Rees, V. W., & Connolly, G. N. (2012). Youth access, creation, and content of smokeless tobacco ("dip") videos in social media. Journal of Adolescent Health, 50(4), 334-338. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.09.003

Elkin, L., Thomson, G., & Wilson, N. (2010). Connecting world youth with tobacco brands: YouTube and the Internet policy vacuum on Web 2.0. Tobacco Control: An International Journal, 19(5), 361-366. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.2010.035949

Kim, K., Paek, H., & Lynn, J. (2010). A content analysis of smoking fetish videos on YouTube: Regulatory implications for tobacco control. Health Communication, 25(2), 97-106. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410230903544415

Daphna Yeshua-Katz & Nicole Martins (2012): Communicating stigma: The pro-ana paradox. Health Communication, DOI:10.1080/10410236.2012.699889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2012.699889

Yoo, J. H., & Kim, J. (2012). Obesity in the new media: A content analysis of obesity videos on YouTube. Health Communication, 27(1), 86-97. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2011.569003

McNeil, K., Brna, P. M., & Gordon, K. E. (2012). Epilepsy in the Twitter era: A need to re-tweet the way we think about seizures. Epilepsy & Behavior, 23(2), 127-130. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.10.020

Briones, R., Nan, X., Madden, K., & Waks, L. (2012). When vaccines go viral: An analysis of HPV vaccine coverage on YouTube. Health Communication, 27(5), 478-485. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2011.610258

“Infodemiology” and “Infoveillance”, 1 Kandula S, Hsu D, Shaman J. (2017). Subregional Nowcasts of Seasonal Influenza Using Search Trends. J Med Internet Res 2017;19(11):e370 http://www.jmir.org/2017/11/e370 Sarker A, Chandrashekar P, Magge A, Cai H, Klein A, Gonzalez G, (2017).Discovering Cohorts of Pregnant Women From Social Media for Safety Surveillance and Analysis. J Med Internet Res 2017;19(10):e361 http://www.jmir.org/2017/10/e361 Jashinsky, J., Burton, S. H., Hanson, C. L., West, J., Giraud-Carrier, C., Barnes, M. D., & Argyle, T. (2015). Tracking suicide risk factors through Twitter in the US. Crisis, 35(1), 51-59. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000234 Gu, H., Chen, B., Zhu, H., Jiang, T., Wang, X., Chen, L., Jiang, Z., Zheng, D., & Jiang, J. (2014). Importance of Internet surveillance in public health emergency control and prevention: evidence from a digital epidemiologic study during Avian Influenza A H7N9 outbreaks. Journal of Medical Internet Research,16(1), e20. Nascimento, T. D., DosSantos, M. F., Danciu, T., DeBoer, M., van Holsbeeck, H., Lucas, S. R., et al. (2014). Real-time sharing and expression of migraine headache suffering on Twitter: A cross-sectional infodemiology study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16(4), e96. Infodemiology and Infoveillance, 2 Schrempft S, van Jaarsveld CH, Fisher A (2017).Exploring the Potential of a Wearable Camera to Examine the Early Obesogenic Home Environment: Comparison of SenseCam Images to the Home Environment Interview J Med Internet Res 2017;19(10):e332 http://www.jmir.org/2017/10/e332 Little, M., Wicks, P., Vaughan, T., & Pentland, A. (2013).Quantifying short-term dynamics of Parkinson’s Disease using self-reported symptom data from an Internet social network. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 15(1), e20. Nakamura, C., Bromberg, M., Bhargava, S., Wicks, P., & Zeng-Treitler, Q. (2012). Mining online social network data for biomedical research: A comparison of clinicians’ and patients’ perceptions about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis treatments. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(3):e90) doi:10.2196/jmir.2127. http://www.jmir.org/2012/3/e90/ Swan, M (2012). Crowdsourced health research studies: An important emerging complement to clinical trials in the public health research ecosystem. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(2):e46) doi:10.2196/jmir.1988. http://www.jmir.org/2012/2/e46/

Fernandez-Luque, L., Karlsen, R., & Melton, G. B. (2012). HealthTrust: A social network approach for retrieving online health videos. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(1), 369-386. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1985

Dredze, M. (2012). Models for mining public health information from social media. (video lecture). https://smartech.gatech.edu/xmlui/handle/1853/45592

Yang, C. C., Yang, H., Jiang, L, & Tang, X. (2012). Detecting signals of adverse drug reactions from health consumer contributed content in social media. HI-KDD’12, August 12–16, 2012, Beijing, China. http://wan.poly.edu/KDD2012/forms/workshop/HI-KDD12/doc/paper_14.pdf

Using social media for health promotion

Neiger, B. L., Thackeray, R., Van Wagenen, S. A., Hanson, C. L., West, J. H., Barnes, M. D., & Fagen, M. C. (2012). Use of social media in health promotion: Purposes, key performance indicators, and evaluation metrics. Health Promotion Practice, 13(2), 159-164. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839911433467

Usher, W. (2011). Types of social media (Web 2.0) used by Australian allied health professionals to deliver early twenty-first-century practice promotion and health care. Social Work in Health Care, 50(4), 305-329. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2010.534317

Wolynn, T. (2012). Using social media to promote and support breastfeeding. Breastfeeding Medicine, 7(5), 364-365. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/bfm.2012.0085

Carrillo-Larco, R. (2012). Social networks and public health: Use of Twitter by ministries of health. International Journal of Public Health, 57(4), 755-756. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-012-0387-4

Freeman, B. (2012). New media and tobacco control. Tobacco Control: An International Journal, 21(2), 139-144. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050193

*Turner, A.. M., Kirchhoff, K., & Capurro, D. (2012). Using crowdsourcing technology for testing Multilingual public health promotion materials. Journal of Medical Internet Research,14(3):e79) doi:10.2196/jmir.2063. http://www.jmir.org/2012/3/e79/ *van Mierlo, T., Voci, S., Lee, S. Fournier, R., & Selby, P.(2012).. Superusers in social networks for smoking cessation: Analysis of demographic characteristics and posting behavior from the Canadian Cancer Society's Smokers' Helpline Online and StopSmokingCenter.net. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(3):e66) doi:10.2196/jmir.1854. http://www.jmir.org/2012/3/e66/ Bull, S. S., Levine, D. K., Black, S. R, Schmiege, S. J., & Santelli, J. (2012). Social nedia–delivered sexual health intervention: A cluster randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 43(5), 467-474 DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.07.022. http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(12)00526-0/abstract Paton, C., Hansen, M., Fernandez-Luque, L., & Lau, Y. S. (2012). Self-tracking, social media and personal health records for patient empowered self-care. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, pp. 16-24. http://www.schattauer.de/de/magazine/uebersicht/zeitschriften-a-z/imia-yearbook/imia-yearbook-2012/issue/special/manuscript/17937/show.html

Statement on Academic Conduct and Support Systems

Academic Conduct: Plagiarism – presenting someone else’s ideas as your own, either verbatim or recast in your own words – is a serious academic offense with serious consequences. Please familiarize yourself with the discussion of plagiarism in SCampus in Part B, Section 11, “Behavior Violating University Standards” policy.usc.edu/scampus-part-b. Other forms of academic dishonesty are equally unacceptable. See additional information in SCampus and university policies on scientific misconduct, http://policy.usc.edu/scientific-misconduct. Support Systems: Student Counseling Services (SCS) – (213) 740-7711 – 24/7 on call Free and confidential mental health treatment for students, including short-term psychotherapy, group counseling, stress fitness workshops, and crisis intervention. engemannshc.usc.edu/counseling National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1 (800) 273-8255 Provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Services (RSVP) – (213) 740-4900 – 24/7 on call Free and confidential therapy services, workshops, and training for situations related to gender-based harm. engemannshc.usc.edu/rsvp Sexual Assault Resource Center For more information about how to get help or help a survivor, rights, reporting options, and additional resources, visit the website: sarc.usc.edu Office of Equity and Diversity (OED)/Title IX Compliance – (213) 740-5086 Works with faculty, staff, visitors, applicants, and students around issues of protected class. equity.usc.edu Bias Assessment Response and Support Incidents of bias, hate crimes and microaggressions need to be reported allowing for appropriate investigation and response. studentaffairs.usc.edu/bias-assessment-response-support The Office of Disability Services and Programs Provides certification for students with disabilities and helps arrange relevant accommodations. dsp.usc.edu Student Support and Advocacy – (213) 821-4710 Assists students and families in resolving complex issues adversely affecting their success as a student EX: personal, financial, and academic. studentaffairs.usc.edu/ssa Diversity at USC Information on events, programs and training, the Diversity Task Force (including representatives for each school), chronology, participation, and various resources for students. diversity.usc.edu USC Emergency Information Provides safety and other updates, including ways in which instruction will be continued if an officially declared emergency makes travel to campus infeasible. emergency.usc.edu

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