Social Media – History and Components

Determining Social Media Components for Scalable Healthcare

The issue of access is an essential concern for any health care policy formulation and reform, especially in emerging nations such as India. It has been recognized that all people deserve access to similar levels and quality of health care services. Penchansky and Thomas (1981) recognized five dimensions of access to health services as affordability, acceptability, accommodation, availability a...

Family History, Social Media, and a Diagnostic Surprise.

Some Comments on ‘Social Media Trends in Medical History’

the NSA’s archiving of all of our private emails, telephone calls and Skype conversations no matter where we live in the world highlights this question in perhaps even starker forms. I find myself thus in the awkward position of being both on the cutting-edge of using tweets as sources in the history of science, and as a technological curmudgeon at the same time. Not having a Twitter account my...

Digital Histories of Disasters: History of Technology through Social Media.

Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of Social Technologies in Organizations

Social media are increasingly implemented in work organizations as tools for communication among employees. It is important that we develop an understanding of how they enable and constrain the communicative activities through which work is accomplished because it is these very dynamics that constitute and perpetuate organizations. We begin by offering a definition of enterprise social media an...