E-Cigarette Surveillance With Social Media Data: Social Bots, Emerging Topics, and Trends.

Journal: JMIR public health and surveillance
Published Date: Dec 20, 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND: As e-cigarette use rapidly increases in popularity, data from online social systems (Twitter, Instagram, Google Web Search) can be used to capture and describe the social and environmental context in which individuals use, perceive, and are marketed this tobacco product. Social media data may serve as a massive focus group where people organically discuss e-cigarettes unprimed by a researcher, without instrument bias, captured in near real time and at low costs.

Authors

  • Jon-Patrick Allem
    Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
  • Emilio Ferrara
    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • Sree Priyanka Uppu
    Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
  • Tess Boley Cruz
    Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
  • Jennifer B Unger
    Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

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