BACKGROUND As the use of social media (SM) tools becomes increasingly widespread, medical trainees need guidance on applying principles of professionalism to their online behavior. OBJECTIVE To develop a curriculum to improve knowledge and skills regarding professionalism of SM use by medical students. METHODS This project was conducted in 3 phases: (1) a needs assessment was performed via ...

Based on social exchange theory, this study develops a research model to examine why people disclose personal information on health social networks. The observations collected from a survey study provide supporting evidence for most of the hypothesized relationships among emotional intensity, informational needs, social needs, informational privacy concerns, social privacy concerns and self-dis...

As more scholarly content is being born digital or digitized, digital libraries are becoming increasingly vital to researchers leveraging scholarly big data for scientific discovery. Given the abundance of scholarly products—especially in environments created by the advent of social networking services—little is known about international scholarly information needs, informationseeking behavior,...

Trust computing has become more important on Web-based Social Networks (WBSNs), such as MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn where people interact and seek information based on trust. On existing WBSN platforms, users can explicitly specify trust value to which they have direct relationship with. The user can then make a decision based on this trust value of others and their opinions. However, the u...

This article explores informal information exchange in social care, and implications for formal monitoring with an electronic social care record (ESCR). Six homecare settings were studied over 14 months between 2001 and 2002. Participant observation methods were used with the recipients of homecare (n = 7) and in-depth interviews plus participant observation with formal care workers (n = 31). A...

Social media is continually emerging as a platform of information exchange around health challenges. We study mental health discourse on the popular social media: reddit. Building on findings about health information seeking and sharing practices in online forums, and social media like Twitter, we address three research challenges. First, we present a characterization of self-disclosure in ment...