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Analysis of online social networks to understand information sharing behaviors through social cognitive theory
2014
Proceedings of the 2014 Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Conference
Analyzing the contents of online social networks is an effective process for monitoring and understanding peoples' behaviors. Since the nature of conversation and information propagation is similar to traditional conversation and learning, one of the popular socio-cognitive methods, social cognitive theory was applied to online social networks to. Two major news topics about colon cancer were chosen to monitor traffic of Twitter messages. The activity of "leaders" on the issue (i.e., news
doi:10.1109/bsec.2014.6867744
pmid:25973446
pmcid:PMC4426385
fatcat:ou4m2iezybfzzg2ahxw2yjq2fa