Murthy, Dhiraj; Gross, A. and Oliveira, D.. 2011. 'Understanding Cancer-Based Networks in Twitter Using Social Network Analysis'. In: Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2011 Fifth IEEE International Conference on. Palo Alto, United States. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Web-based social media networks have an increasing frequency of health-related information, resources, and networks (both support and professional). Although we are aware of the presence of these health networks, we do not yet know their ability to (1) influence the flow of health-related behaviors, attitudes, and information and (2) what resources have the most influence in shaping particular health outcomes. Lastly, the health research community lacks easy-to-use data gathering tools to conduct applied research using data from social media websites. In this position paper we discuss and sketch our current work on addressing fundamental questions about information flow in cancer-related social media networks by visualizing and understanding authority, trust, and cohesion. We discuss the development of methods to visualize these networks and information flow on them using real-time data from the social media website Twitter and how these networks influence health outcomes by examining responses to specific health messages.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	social network analysis, virtual social networks, cancer-based Twitter networks, data visualization, trust inference, information-flow
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 2011 Published
Event Location:	Palo Alto, United States
Item ID:	9316
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2013 11:20
Last Modified:	18 Feb 2014 09:50
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/9316

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