Transforming habit: revolution, routine and social change

Social Media and Citizen Social Movement Process for Political Change: The Case of 2011 Egyptian Revolution

The power and role played by social media in developing social and political movements for political changes in North Africa and the Middle East have transformed how social media viewed and used. To date, few IS studies have investigated the role of Information Systems in the context of politics. The goal of this paper is to understand the role of social media including micro-blogs and social n...

Transforming guidelines in routine practice.

Transforming Guidelines in Routine Practice To the Editor: We have read with great interest the AHA/ASA guidelines on the early management of acute stroke patients,1,2 and we wish to report our experience as regards to the role of Emergency Medical Services (ES) personnel in the management of acute stroke patients. In order to evaluate the role of training on the accesses to our University Hosp...

Social Influence and Smoking Habit in Adolescent

Material and Method: The sample of the study consisted of high school students aged 13-18 years old, from two cities of central Greece (LamiaLarisa). Data were collected during the period 01/10/2011-25/02/2012. The questionnaire includes questions on the demographic data of participants and their smoking habits as well as 20 questions relating to social influence, as expressed through and shape...

Technology-assisted Persuasion for Dietary Habit Change

New technology provides an opportunity for people to accesstheir shopping data digitally. With an increasing prevalenceof overweight and obesity and the implications that follow,research on diet interventions is in high demand. This paperdescribes a study of the Food4Thought system: an approachto persuasive technology that focuses on providing informa-tion to users j...

The therapeutic revolution: medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America.