Seeking and sharing health information online: comparing search engines and social media

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Artificial Intelligence for Mental Healthcare: Clinical Applications, Barriers, Facilitators, and Artificial Wisdom (2021, background): “Examining the content, language, and consumption patterns of social media provide novel insights into relationships and communication, as well as create new opportunities for seeking help (73,74).”
Detecting Changes in Suicide Content Manifested in Social Media Following Celebrity Suicides (2015, background): “Online social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Tumblr, are popular outlets for people seeking information and social support, including issues around a variety of psychological and health challenges [37, 38, 13].”
Surveillance, Panopticism, and Self-Discipline in the Digital Age (2018, background): “Another issue with respect to presence of the ‘chilling effect’ and of self-censorship that has been identified is health (see De Choudhury et al. 2014; Young and Quan-Haase 2009).”
From internet access to internet skills: digital inequality among older adults (2019, methodology): “aged 60 and older whom we reached through the Cint’s OpinionHUB, an online survey panel service also used by others in the literature [24, 79].”
Exploring Time-Dependent Concerns about Pregnancy and Childbirth from Search Logs (2015, background): “pregnancy continues to top the list of health-related search topics [11,34].”