Social Media and the Empowering of Opponents of Medical Technologies: The Case of Anti-Vaccinationism

Social media has contributed positively to the interaction between proponents of medical products and technologies and the public by permitting more direct interaction between these two groups. However, it has also provided opponents of these products a new mechanism to organize opposition. Using th...

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Autores principales: Wilson, Kumanan, Keelan, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications Inc. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3668617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23715762
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.2409
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description Social media has contributed positively to the interaction between proponents of medical products and technologies and the public by permitting more direct interaction between these two groups. However, it has also provided opponents of these products a new mechanism to organize opposition. Using the example of anti-vaccinationism, we provide recommendations for how proponents of medical products and technologies should address this new challenge.
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spelling pubmed-36686172013-06-03 Social Media and the Empowering of Opponents of Medical Technologies: The Case of Anti-Vaccinationism Wilson, Kumanan Keelan, Jennifer J Med Internet Res Viewpoint Social media has contributed positively to the interaction between proponents of medical products and technologies and the public by permitting more direct interaction between these two groups. However, it has also provided opponents of these products a new mechanism to organize opposition. Using the example of anti-vaccinationism, we provide recommendations for how proponents of medical products and technologies should address this new challenge. JMIR Publications Inc. 2013-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3668617/ /pubmed/23715762 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.2409 Text en ©Kumanan Wilson, Jennifer Keelan. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 28.05.2013. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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