the #hcsm report: promise and perils of content curation
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The #HSCM ReportThe Promise and Perils of Content Curation
Dr Richard McCrory MRCP(UK)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust@iamdoctord
Nothing to Declare…
“The Internet has turned the news industry upside down, making it more participatory, social, diverse and partisan –as it used to be before the arrival of the mass media.”
The Economist, July 7th, 2011
Link#Hashtag
Tweet Activity on #hcsm
Node Colour= Modularity = Density of connections within groups
Node Size= Eigenvector Centrality ≈ ‘PageRank’= Influence of a Node in a Network
Source @nytimes
What should I Remember?
I need to act fast!
Not enough meaning!
There’s too much
information!
There is a hunger for Nutritious Social Media
Credit: Joel Topf (@kidney_boy)
“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.”
Alan Alda