Social Media Use in the United States: Implications for Health Communication

Health-related Internet use among cancer survivors: data from the Health Information National Trends Survey, 2003–2008

“…First, in the multivariate regression models, we found no statistical racial/ethnic and education-level differences in general HRIU patterns with the exception of emailing the providers. The lack of racial/ethnic differences in specific healthrelated Internet usage echoes previous findings on participation in social media and health information seeking online [3,27]. One exception is that higher education is associated with likelihood of emailing the providers, after controlling for the other study variables.…”

Social media and online health services: A health empowerment perspective to online health information

“…(c) How confusing is the information? (Cronbach's Alpha = .796); Control variables: Gender: Women seem to search for health information using all types of media, including online medical information (Chou, Hunt, Beckjord, Moser, & Hesse, 2009;Renahy et al, 2008). Men tend to search more than women to inquire about physicians, whereas women look for information for family members (Rice, 2006).…”

What could possibly go wrong? A multi-panel Delphi study of organizational social media risk

“…While research has primarily explored social media as an intriguing phenomenon with a wide range of potential benefits from knowledge sharing, innovation, communications, and organizational strategy across multiple industries (Dahlander and Piezunka 2014;Kallinikos and Tempini 2014;Kane et al 2014;Leonardi et al 2013), social media risks have largely been ignored with the exception of a few notable studies (e.g., Chou et al 2009;Kaplan and Haenlein 2010;Aula 2010) and, to date, no study has provided a comprehensive synthesis of the literature on social media to identify the potential risks to organizations. Toward mitigating this gap, we followed Templier and Paré's (2015) guidance for conducting a comprehensive literature search to identify all relevant organizational social media risks and then structured those risks within a typology framework.…”