TY - JOUR
T1 - Organizing online health content
T2 - Developing hashtag collections for healthier internet-based people and communities
AU - Katz, Matthew S.
AU - Anderson, Patricia F.
AU - Thompson, Michael A.
AU - Salmi, Liz
AU - Freeman-Daily, Janet
AU - Utengen, Audun
AU - Dizon, Don S.
AU - Blotner, Charlie
AU - Cooke, David T.
AU - Sparacio, Dee
AU - Staley, Alicia C.
AU - Fisch, Michael J.
AU - Young, Colleen
AU - Attai, Deanna J.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Twitter use has increased among patients with cancer, advocates, and oncology professionals. Hashtags, a form of metadata, can be used to share content, organize health information, and create virtual communities of interest. Cancer-specific hashtags modeled on a breast cancer community, #bcsm, led to the development of a structured set of hashtags called the cancer tag ontology. In this article, we review how these hashtags have worked with the aim of describing our experience from 2011 to 2017. We discuss useful guidelines for the development and maintenance of health-oriented communities on Twitter, including possible challenges to community sustainability and opportunities for future improvement and research.
AB - Twitter use has increased among patients with cancer, advocates, and oncology professionals. Hashtags, a form of metadata, can be used to share content, organize health information, and create virtual communities of interest. Cancer-specific hashtags modeled on a breast cancer community, #bcsm, led to the development of a structured set of hashtags called the cancer tag ontology. In this article, we review how these hashtags have worked with the aim of describing our experience from 2011 to 2017. We discuss useful guidelines for the development and maintenance of health-oriented communities on Twitter, including possible challenges to community sustainability and opportunities for future improvement and research.
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U2 - 10.1200/CCI.18.00124
DO - 10.1200/CCI.18.00124
M3 - Article
C2 - 31251658
VL - 3
JO - JCO clinical cancer informatics
JF - JCO clinical cancer informatics
SN - 2473-4276
ER -