Women Win Facebook, Twitter, Zynga; Men Get LinkedIn, Reddit [INFOGRAPHIC] When it comes to the sexes on social media, there are a few places where the battle lines seem settled. It probably won't surprise you to learn, for example, that men are from Google+ and women are from Pinterest. But when it comes to the two dominant social networks — Facebook and Twitter — you may be shocked to discover that women are now in the majority on both services. Online gaming, once a bastion of men, has fallen to the females as well. But take heart, guys. Check out this infographic for more details, including the one social network where the gender distribution is equal.
RT @mc_hankins: "Twitter users are already extensively sharing their experiences of toothache" <-It's not just about breakfast http:/ ... The microblogging service Twitter is a new means for the public to communicate health concerns and could afford health care professionals new ways to communicate with patients. With the growing ubiquity of user-generated online content via social networking Web sites such as Twitter, it is clear we are experiencing a revolution in communication and information sharing. In a study titled "Public Health Surveillance of Dental Pain via Twitter," published in the Journal of Dental Research -- the official publication of the International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR), researchers demonstrated that Twitter users are already extensively sharing their experiences of toothache and seeking advice from other users. The researchers investigated the content of Twitter posts meeting search criteria relating to dental pain. After excluding ambiguous tweets, spam and repeat users, 772 tweets were analyzed and frequencies calculated.
Going viral: Using social media to publicise academic research | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional A research team led by Paul Crowther at the University of Sheffield discovered the most massive stars ever found, using the European Southern Observatory's very large telescope. Photograph: ESO/P Crowther/CJ Evans Only a tiny fraction of the research done in universities gets covered by newspapers. Take the story about, Alex Baker and Chris Rose, two PhD students that sent a helium balloon up to the edge of space, with two cameras in an insulated box suspended below. What's most remarkable about this story was how I came across it – one of their fellow students posted it on Twitter, and I happened to come across the tweet as it mentioned @sheffielduni. Once I'd got the extra details from the students and chosen the pictures, the release needed to be written. Over the next week, it was featured on the BBC and Channel 4 news websites, various local papers and radio stations, Coverage for a story tends to generate interest from other media, so the news release was only the springboard.
Top 20 Most Popular Social Networking Websitess Here are the top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's U.S. Traffic Rank from Quantcast and Global Traffic Rank from both Alexa and SimilarWeb."*#*" Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data. 1 | facebook3 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,500,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 5 - Quantcast Rank | 3 - Alexa Rank | 2 - SimilarWeb Rank | Last Updated: May 1, 2017. The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA 2 | YouTube3 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,499,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 2 - Quantcast Rank | 4 - Alexa Rank | 3 - SimilarWeb Rank | Last Updated: May 1, 2017. 3 | Twitter11 - eBizMBA Rank | 400,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 11 - Quantcast Rank | 16 - Alexa Rank | 7 - SimilarWeb Rank | Last Updated: May 1, 2017.
RT @SeattleMamaDoc: "We treat patients, we do not treat MRI findings" @hjluks take on NYT article on MRI overuse in athletes ... I have utilized this blog on multiple occasions to discuss the issue of overuse and over-utilization of technology in healthcare. In a very broad sense this has tremendous implications not only with regards to the obvious cost involved— but over-utilization and overuse will foster further overuse and over-utilization because an *abnormal* finding will frequently lead to further testing and perhaps even unnecessary surgical intervention or invasive testing. I have discussed these issues, both here, here and here. This very important article which came out of the New York Times yesterday, and was pointed out to me by my friend Wendy Swanson discusses the overutilization and overuse of MRI scans in the athletic population. What Dr. Now is not a far reach to see how this affects you and the general population at large. Please do not approach your physician with the thought that an MRI is necessary in all situations where your knee, your elbow, or your shoulder bother you.
Using social media tools for research | biggerbrains.com Prof. Adrian David Cheok is a Full Professor at Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design. He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics. He has successfully obtained approximately $20 million dollars in funding for externally funded projects in the area of wearable computers and mixed reality from Media Development Authority, Nike, National Oilwell Varco, Defense Science Technology Agency, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Communications and Arts, National Arts Council, Singapore Science Center, and Hougang Primary School. Biggerbrains had an opportunity to speak to Prof.
Multi Platform Social Media – diagram-by-diagram Over the years I have been creating lots of confusing, busy yet at the same time, meaningful and insightful emergent media diagrams. These attempt to help the uninitiated heritage media folk, get to grips with a multiplatform, shifting-social-media-sands, transmogodified entertainment landscape…breathe. So I have been uploading a bunch of these diagrams onto my flickr account over the past weeks, partly to make them more accessible to me too (oh the joys of the cloud) but with the creative commons tag, for all and sundry to use (attributed of course – the only way to power & fame nowadays – cackles!). Here is a short selection of the 25 or so already up, with brief descriptions – the main bunch is in a set called ‘Emergent Media’ here. The above diagram is intended to help storytellers simply understand a range of key places to distribute their story fragments or triggers online. The above is one of my favourite diagrams from way back in early 2006.
@HealthIsSocial thanks for adding me to this meaningless list;) Social Media for Research: Open Resource and Reflection for #MASocialMedia | Jennifer M Jones I would like to share the session that I had prepared for a guest workshop that I was to deliver to this year’s MA in Social Media. Something, judging on last year’s session – and the 6 other sessions that I’ve delivered over the last 3-4 weeks, I was looking forward to trying out and exploring using social media as a research context. As it never got past the initial discussion “what is research?” I can safely say that it didn’t work well for this particular cohort’s expectations. What I can do, instead, is offer up the entire workshop as a resource and hope that perhaps others might find it more useful. Social Media for Research: Workshop Plan Level: Masters/PhD Overview Explore social media’s role when compiling a research methodology from an academic and commercial perspective. Materials ProjectorWhiteboard paper and pens (if available) Procedures Slides: For me, I’m always quite embedded in my research, where I’m not only a participant, I also take an active role in steering the results.
List of social networking websites From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A social networking service is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. This is a list of notable active social network services, excluding online dating services, that have Wikipedia articles. For defunct social networking websites, see List of defunct social networking services. See also References