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Socially Shared Health Information

Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Digital Health, 2018
In this PhD project, I'm investigating how health organizations are sharing health information on social media. My PhD project is divided into two parts, but in this paper, I will only focus on the first part: To understand current practices of how health organizations engage with health information and users on social media (empirical studies 1,2,3 ...
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Public information and social choice [PDF]

Social Choice and Welfare, 2000
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The social implications of information processing

Information & Management, 1978
Abstract This paper suggests that the growing use of computer and communications technologies has serious long and short term implications for Canadian society. Of immediate concern to a broad spectrum of Canadian society is the inadequacy of many of today's information systems to meet the test of social acceptability.
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Information recycling for social creativity

2011 3rd International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST), 2011
Social brainstorming has become a popular group creativity technique to create a large number of ideas for solving problems. The social computing, for its advance in information processing and network communication, collaborates the social intelligence and enhances the social creativity in brainstorming.
Yilang Wu, Takanobu Watanabe
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Approach and avoidance of social information.

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 1989
The present study examined how an approach or avoidance tendency to information influences the perception of related behaviours. The sexual attitudes of 104 male and female subjects were assessed prior to viewing either a birth control, conservative social values, or educational issues lecture. Subjects indicated the number of meaningful actions in the
Todd Hogue, Michael L. Atkinson
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Social and informational proxies in a fishtank

CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2001
This paper describes an interactive fishtank that displays on a large screen in a shared space in our research lab. Fish represent people and informational resources. People can interact with fish by tapping on the tank or typing. Fish can be personalized or extended to reveal whatever a particular person wants to reveal about his or herself.
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Information: Commodity or Social Good

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2001
Considers the dichotomy that exists in the general attitude of governments and policy-makers towards the role of information and information technology in society. Information is seen by some as a social good, enhancing the social, political and cultural life of citizenry and forming a de facto ‘fourth right of citizenship’ and by others as an economic
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Social information: the person is the message

Biosystems, 1998
Assumptions that Shannon's concepts cannot extend to social systems are challenged by showing that social information measures the reduced uncertainties individuals have about the systemic effects of each other's behavior. The 'meaning' of individual actions is their collective consequences, which also measure reductions in systemic uncertainties about
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On the informational basis of social choice

Social Choice and Welfare, 2003
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Information processing in social networks

Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 2012
In the current social network, a user may have hundreds of friends and find it very time consuming to categorize and tag every friend manually. When a user is going to initiate an activity by issuing a corresponding query, he/she needs to consider the relationship among candidate attendees to find a group of mutually close friends.
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