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Social Web and Evidence Based Health Practice Arindam Basu, HLTH 301, July-August 2012
What is Social Media? WEB 2.0 USER GENERATED CONTENT SOCIAL MEDIA
WEB 2.0 Click on the Image above to visit the seminal article on Web 2.0 by Tim O’Reilly and read about it
COMPARISON BETWEEN WEB 1.0 AND 2.0 SOURCE: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=1
User Generated Content • Content Made Publicly Available Over the Internet • Should Reflect Certain Amount of Creative Effort • Created Outside of Professional Routines and Practices Source: http://www.oecd.org/internet/interneteconomy/38393115.pdf
Types of Social Media • Blogs • Social Networking Sites • Collaborative Projects • Content Communities • Virtual Social Media • Virtual Game Worlds
Steps of Evidence Based Health • Frame an Answerable Question • Search the Literature • Critically Appraise Literature • Synthesize Literature • Do Collaborative Decision Making
Frame Answerable Question • Ask Questions Collaboratively (Web 2.0 part) • Store Questions in a central repository (User Generated Content)
Search Literature • Search Literature Collaboratively (Web 2.0) • Store Search Results (User Generated Content) • Share search results
Critically Appraise Literature • Jointly Annotate and Mark Up • Store Annotations • Discuss and Retrieve Annotations
Literature Synthesis • Synthesize Data Collaboratively (Web 2.0) • Write Collaboratively (Web 2.0) • Store and Share Results (User Generated Content)
SharedDecision Making • Present Data to facilitate responses and participation (Web 2.0: blogs, Twitter) • Participate in Discussion Groups (Web 2.0: Google Groups, Yahoo Groups) • Utilize Social Networking (Web 2.0: Facebook, others) • Develop a corpus of such decision making and make available this shared decision making process to others (User Generated Content; Social Networking)
Key Points • Social Media = Web 2.0 + User Generated Content • Web 2.0 represents participatory web where users can collaborate and create content • Created content together with participation is central to shared decision making • In all steps and phases of Evidence Based Healthcare and practice, it is possible to take advantage of the emerging social media