Practices suggested in social media for birth plans

Suggested Cultural Practices for Eggplant

Similarity measurement for describe user images in social media

Online social networks like Instagram are places for communication. Also, these media produce rich metadata which are useful for further analysis in many fields including health and cognitive science. Many researchers are using these metadata like hashtags, images, etc. to detect patterns of user activities. However, there are several serious ambiguities like how much reliable are these informa...

Birth Plans: Birth Preferences or Labor Manifesto

A woman’s preferences for labor, childbirth, and postpartum can be communicated by means of a documented birth plan. Written birth plans have become an increasingly common component of antepartum preparation with the idea that planning provides an opportunity for education, empowerment, and developing confidence about labor [1,2]. This document, often created in childbirth education classes, ai...

Censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media

With Twitter and Facebook blocked in China, the stream of information from Chinese domestic social media provides a case study of social media behavior under the influence of active censorship. While much work has looked at efforts to prevent access to information in China (including IP blocking of foreign websites or search engine filtering), we present here the first large-scale analysis of p...

Crisis communication, learning and responding: Best practices in social media

As noted by Seeger (2006) the notion of best practices is often use to improve professional practice; to create research and functional recommendations to use in a specific situation. This essay describes best practices in crisis communication specifically through the use of social media. It provides suggestions and approaches for improving the effectiveness of crisis communication and learning...