Perceptions of Food Hypersensitivity Expertise on Social Media: Qualitative Study

Social Media-Based Expertise Evidence

Social media provides a fertile ground for expertise location. The public nature of the data supports expertise inference with little privacy infringement and, in addition, presentation of direct and detailed evidence for an expert’s skillfulness in the queried topic. In this work, we study the use of social media for expertise evidence. We conducted two user surveys of enterprise social media ...

French Social Media Mining: Expertise and Sentiment

Social Media has changed the way we communicate between individuals, within organizations and communities. The availability of these social data opens new opportunities to understand and influence the user behavior. Therefore, Social Media Mining is experiencing a growing interest in various scientific and economic circles. In this thesis, we are specifically interested in the users of these ne...

Consumer Perceptions toward Genetically Modified Food Products: A Qualitative Study in Tehran

Background and Objectives: Currently, increases in population of the world increase supply and food demands. Production of transgenic plants is one of the relative achievements. The aim of this study was to describe the consumer perceptions towards transgenic products.  Materials & Methods: The study was carried out by sampling with the maximum diversity and participants enrolled until data sa...

Professional Use of Social Media by Pharmacists: A Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND Social media is frequently used by consumers and health care professionals; however, our knowledge about its use in a professional capacity by pharmacists is limited. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to investigate the professional use of social media by pharmacists. METHODS In-depth semistructured interviews were conducted with practicing pharmacists (N=31) from nine countries. Interviews ...

The media and food-risk perceptions.