Merchant Raina M, Ha Yoonhee P, Wong Charlene A, Schwartz H Andrew, Sap Maarten, Ungar Lyle H, Asch David A
Raina M. Merchant, Yoonhee P. Ha, and Charlene A. Wong are with the Penn Medicine Social Media and Health Innovation Lab, Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. H. Andrew Schwartz, Lyle H. Ungar, and Maarten Sap are with the Department of Computer and Information Science, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania. David A. Asch is with the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Am J Public Health. 2014 Dec;104(12):2248-50. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302118. Epub 2014 Oct 16.
In October 2013, multiple United States (US) federal health departments and agencies posted on Twitter, "We're sorry, but we will not be tweeting or responding to @replies during the shutdown. We'll be back as soon as possible!" These "last tweets" and the millions of responses they generated revealed social media's role as a forum for sharing and discussing information rapidly. Social media are now among the few dominant communication channels used today. We used social media to characterize the public discourse and sentiment about the shutdown. The 2013 shutdown represented an opportunity to explore the role social media might play in events that could affect health.
2013年10月，美国多个联邦卫生部门和机构在推特上发文称：“很抱歉，政府停摆期间我们将不会发推文或回复@评论。我们会尽快回来！”这些“最后的推文”以及它们引发的数百万条回复揭示了社交媒体作为快速分享和讨论信息的平台所发挥的作用。社交媒体如今已成为当下少数几个主要的沟通渠道之一。我们利用社交媒体来描述关于政府停摆的公众话语和情绪。2013年的政府停摆为探索社交媒体在可能影响健康的事件中可能发挥的作用提供了一个契机。
