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Information Overload and Information Appreciation Across News, Entertainment, and Personal Communication

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
The advent of digital information communication technologies (ICTs) has created an unprecedented abundance of information across news, entertainment, personal communication, and other media contexts. While prior research has emphasized negative outcomes
Anne Schulz, Sophia Charlotte Volk, Sina Blassnig, Sabrina Heike Kessler, Sarah Marschlich, Minh Hao Nguyen, Lea Stahel, Nadine Strauß   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

If a Tree Falls in the Forest: Presidential Press Conferences and Early Media Narratives about the COVID-19 Crisis

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, as we confronted questions about social distancing, masking wearing, and vaccines, public safety experts warned that the consequences of a misinformed population would be particularly dire due to the serious nature of the
Masha Krupenkin, Kai Zhu, Dylan Walker, David Rothschild   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterizing the Reaction of Doctors to COVID-19 on Twitter

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
With the surge of the Delta variant of COVID-19, clear public health messaging on social media has become more vital than ever. We demonstrate how unique Twitter data can be used to explore doctors’ reactions to the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Katie Hsia, Edward Kong
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People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: evidence from users in 46 countries

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
A growing body of literature has noted an age pattern in the sharing of false news in social media, with older people sharing more often misinformation than younger users.
Marcio Moretto, Pablo Ortellado, Gabriel Kessler, Gabriel Vommaro, Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Raga, Juan Pablo Luna, Eduarth Heinen, Laura Fernanda Cely, Sergio Toro   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the “infodemic”: People turned to trustworthy news outlets during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
How did the 2020 coronavirus pandemic affect people's online news consumption? To understand this, we present a comparative analysis of data on an estimated 905B desktop and mobile visits to news outlets, and 54B Facebook engagements, generated by news ...
Sacha Altay, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pandemics, Protests, and Publics

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2021
As an integral component of public discourse, Twitter is among the main data sources for scholarship in this area. However, there is much that scholars do not know about the basic mechanisms of public discourse on Twitter, including the prevalence of ...
Sarah Shugars, Adina Gitomer, Stefan McCabe, Ryan J. Gallagher, Kenneth Joseph, Nir Grinberg, Larissa Doroshenko, Brooke Foucault Welles, David Lazer   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pronoun Lists in Profile Bios Display Increased Prevalence, Systematic Co-Presence with Other Keywords and Network Tie Clustering among US Twitter Users 2015-2022

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2023
Over the past few years, pronoun lists have become more prevalent in online spaces. Currently, various LGBT+ activists, universities, and corporations encourage people to share their preferred pronouns.
Liam Tucker, Jason Jones
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Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani, Rachel K. Peterson, Avani D. Rao, Laurie J. McKenzie, Ahmed Magdy Elmotayam, Leslie Chang, Michael Roth, Susan L. McGovern   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hope College Abstracts: 10th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance [PDF]

, 2011
The abstracts...are representative of student-faculty collaborative research and creative work that takes place throughout the year at ...
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