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What are the ways in which social media is used in the context of complementary and alternative medicine in the health and medical scholarly literature? a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2023
Background Despite the increased use of social media to share health-related information and the substantial impact that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can have on individuals’ health and wellbeing, currently, to our knowledge, there is no ...
J. Y. Ng, Natasha Verhoeff, J. Steen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Platform Effects on Alternative Influencer Content: Understanding How Audiences and Channels Shape Misinformation Online

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science, 2021
People are increasingly exposed to science and political information from social media. One consequence is that these sites play host to “alternative influencers,” who spread misinformation. However, content posted by alternative influencers on different
Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice   +2 more
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Amplifying Counter-Public Spheres on Social Media: News Sharing of Alternative Versus Traditional Media After the 2019 Chilean Uprising

open access: yesSocial Media + Society, 2022
While much research exists on the role of digital media use in protest movements, few studies compare the long-term impact of protests on online use of alternative and mainstream digital media.
J. Luna, Sergio Y. Toro, S. Valenzuela
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Digital Memory and Populism| Commemorative Populism in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Strategic (Ab)use of Memory in Anti-Corona Protest Communication on Telegram

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, self-proclaimed resistance movements have organized protests against containment measures both in digital media and on the streets.
Christian Schwarzenegger, Anna Wagner
doaj   +2 more sources

News Media Trust and Sources of Political Information in West Africa: Mainstream vs. New Media in Ghana and Nigeria

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2022
Like many other developed democracies, most democratic countries in West Africa are facing challenges of trust in news media for political information, particularly with the emergence of the non-mainstream media - new social media.
Jamiu M. Mustapha   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building an alternative social currency: Dematerialising and rematerialising digital money across media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper reports on the user experience and design of physical and digital forms of a mixed-media local currency. We reconceive digitally mediated transactions as social interactions and report on the development of conceptual designs informed by user ...
Ferreira, J, Perry, M
core   +2 more sources

Geo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2023
Social media messages posted by people during natural disasters often contain important location descriptions, such as the locations of victims. Recent research has shown that many of these location descriptions go beyond simple place names, such as city
Yingjie Hu   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media: A case study of the 2016 U.S. presidential election [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Social media has become an emerging alternative to opinion polls for public opinion collection, while it is still posing many challenges as a passive data source, such as structurelessness, quantifiability, and representativeness.
Cai, Tengteng   +4 more
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YouTube Channel: An Alternative Social Media to Enhance EFL Students’ Speaking Skill

open access: yes, 2020
The use of YouTube channel allows students to comprehend lessons easier and motivates students in learning. The aim of this study is to know whether or not there is a significant effect of using YouTube channel to students’ speaking achievement.
M. Ilyas, M. Putri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Engagement, user satisfaction, and the amplification of divisive content on social media [PDF]

open access: yesPNAS Nexus, 2023
Social media ranking algorithms typically optimize for users’ revealed preferences, i.e. user engagement such as clicks, shares, and likes. Many have hypothesized that by focusing on users’ revealed preferences, these algorithms may exacerbate human ...
S. Milli   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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