Seeking alcohol information on the Internet

Joinson, Adam; Banyard, Philip

doi:10.1108/00012530310498888

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“…Past research has indicated that online environments serve as platforms to facilitate both information and social-emotional activities (Burnett, 2000;Liu and Larose, 2008). Indeed, the ability of online environments such as discussion forums and blogs to provide emotional and social support for their participants has been widely noted ( Joinson and Banyard, 2003;Coursaris and Liu, 2009). We uncovered two primary reasons for the reliance on online social support from our literature review.…”

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An analysis of tweets in response to the death of Michael Jackson

Goh

Lee

2011

Aslib Proceedings

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Purpose -Grieving resulting from the death of a loved one or someone familiar is a painful process and individuals invariably seek support to help them through this difficult period. In this study, the paper investigates the role microblogs play by exploring the types of messages following the death of a public figure, Michael Jackson, "the King of Pop". Design/methodology/approach -Content analysis was conducted using 50,000 tweets harvested from Twitter from the first 12 days after Michael Jackson's death. A coding instrument characterizing a set of categories that users posted about Jackson's death was inductively constructed, and then applied to the entire dataset of tweets. Findings -About 50 per cent of tweets fell into categories commonly associated with expressions of emotions or thoughts due to death. However, as the single largest category, Twitter was used primarily as a platform for sharing news and other information. Surprisingly, categories not normally associated with grieving, such as spreading of rumours, expressions of hatred and spam, also occupied a high proportion of tweets. Originality/value -There has been little work done in examining microblogs as platforms for giving and receiving support in general and, more specifically, for the expression of grief. Therefore, the present research is timely, as it seeks to understand the role microblogs play in the grieving process.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Indeed, the ability of online environments such as discussion forums and blogs to provide emotional and social support for their participants has been widely noted ( Joinson and Banyard, 2003;Coursaris and Liu, 2009). We uncovered two primary reasons for the reliance on online social support from our literature review.…”

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confidence: 95%

An analysis of tweets in response to the death of Michael Jackson

Goh

Lee

2011

Aslib Proceedings

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“…Do at‐risk, self‐affirmed participants differ in how they search for and select material on the Internet, for example? The Internet contains information that both threatens and reassures, and there is evidence that people may be more naturally drawn to the latter (Dutta‐Bergman, 2004; Joinson & Banyard, 2003; Sillence, Briggs, Harris, & Fishwick, 2007); it would be reasonable to predict that self‐affirmation changes this in favour of more balanced data‐gathering, but this has yet to be tested.…”

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The Impact of Self‐Affirmation on Health‐Related Cognition and Health Behaviour: Issues and Prospects

Harris

Epton

2010

Social & Personality Psych

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In a recent paper (Harris & Epton, 2009) we reviewed the evidence showing that selfaffirming Ð the act of reflecting upon cherished values or attributes Ð can reduce resistance to health-risk information. In this companion paper we extend the discussion of issues arising from that review and describe key questions for future research. Overall, we regard the picture emerging from this nascent literature as encouraging. Nevertheless, more needs to be discovered about how self-affirming achieves its effects and their limits. Despite lowering an important barrier to health behaviour change by reducing message resistance, there is currently only limited evidence that self-affirming changes subsequent health behaviour. We consider why.We also discuss issues to address in interventions involving self-affirmation and examine evidence that self-affirming alters relationships between variables. There is also scope for extending the range of samples, health information, and health behaviours examined and for assessing more spontaneous self-affirmation.

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“…This is particularly problematic in the eHealth context, where consumers can often find conflicting advice and are able to navigate to websites that tell them what they would prefer to hear. In one study, for example, a population struggling to modify their drinking behavior sought pro-drinking rather than anti-drinking material when left free to choose via the Internet [ 14 ]. In our own study, we are interested in the fact that Internet material often contains visual design elements, or cues, that are unrelated to the quality of the health information presented but that could be used to influence credibility judgments about the site and that may also subsequently influence acceptance and adherence to health advice.…”

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The Effect of Credibility-Related Design Cues on Responses to a Web-Based Message About the Breast Cancer Risks From Alcohol: Randomized Controlled Trial

Harris¹,

Sillence²,

Briggs³

2009

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundInternet sites typically contain visual design elements that are unrelated to the quality of the health information presented but that could influence credibility judgments and responses to health advice. To assess the effects of such design elements, or credibility cues, experimentally, we exposed women with different levels of weekly alcohol consumption to a website containing high quality but unpalatable information about a related health risk (breast cancer). The information was presented alongside either positive or negative credibility cues unrelated to information content.ObjectivesWe explored four research questions: (1) Did the cues influence how the women engaged with the site? (2) Did they influence how the women responded cognitively and emotionally? (3) Did they influence whether the women subsequently acted on the advice? (4) Did the impact of the cues vary with how much alcohol the women reported drinking?MethodA total of 85 women were randomly assigned to view one of two versions of a website containing the same high-quality content but different cues. One version had positive credibility cues (trustmarks), the other had negative ones (adverts, pharmaceutical sponsorship, and a donation button). Objective measures included visual attention (using eye-tracking equipment), time studying the material, and recall. Subjective measures included cognitive and affective responses and intention to change. Measures of subsequent behavior were taken 1 week later.ResultsFirst, the cues did not affect how long the women spent on the site or how long they spent reading the text. However, women in the negative cues condition spent more time looking at a donation button than those in the positive cues condition spent looking at a TRUSTe seal (β = −.43, P < .001) but less time looking at a logo (β = .43, P < .001) or at certain other features of the site. Those in the negative cues condition also recalled more site content (β = −.22, P = .048). Second, there were no effects of the cues on any of the measures of cognition, affect, vulnerability, or intentions. However, third, at follow-up, the positive cues had promoted greater alcohol reduction than the negative cues among those women who had previously reported drinking more heavily (β = −.22, P = .02). So, fourth, the responses to the cues did vary with how much alcohol the women typically drank.ConclusionsContent-irrelevant images and logos can influence the behavioral response to quality health-risk information. These effects may be subtle, changing with time.

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Seeking alcohol information on the Internet

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

An analysis of tweets in response to the death of Michael Jackson

An analysis of tweets in response to the death of Michael Jackson

The Impact of Self‐Affirmation on Health‐Related Cognition and Health Behaviour: Issues and Prospects

The Effect of Credibility-Related Design Cues on Responses to a Web-Based Message About the Breast Cancer Risks From Alcohol: Randomized Controlled Trial

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