INTRODUCTION This study examined electronic cigarette (e-cig) content in visual materials posted on the social-media platforms Instagram and Pinterest. Both platforms allow users to upload pictures to the internet and share them globally. Users can search for pictures tagged with specific keywords and phrases. METHODS Using content analysis, this study identified themes in image postings of e...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy of using "Instagram application" with a "home-exercise program" as a motivational stimulus in improving physical activity (PA) adherence levels among female college students. METHODS Fifty-eight female undergraduate students with the mean age 20.3 ± 0.96 years participated. Participants were divided into two groups: intervention and the control group; bot...

Post streams from public social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter have become precious but noisy data sources to discover what is happening around us. In this paper, we focus on the problem of detecting and presenting local events in real time using social media content. We propose a novel framework for real-time city event detection and extraction. The proposed framework first appl...

Selfies (self-portrait photographs often taken with a camera phone) are popularly used for selfpresentation in social media like Facebook and Instagram. These modern user-generated self-portraits have the potential to draw a more versatile picture of the genders instead of reproducing traditional gender stereotypes often presented in mainstream media and advertising. To investigate the degree o...

BACKGROUND Social media presents an important means for social interaction, especially among adolescents, with Instagram being the most popular platform in this age-group. Pictures and communication about non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) can frequently be found on the internet. METHODS During 4 weeks in April 2016, n = 2826 (from n = 1154 accounts) pictures which directly depicted wounds on In...

Information about events happening in the real world are generated online on social media in real-time. There is substantial research done to detect these events using information posted on websites like Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram. The information posted depends on the type of platform the website relies upon, such as short messages, pictures, and long form articles. In this paper, we exten...

Œedemowill illustrate the features of awebGIS interface to support the rapid mapping activities a‰er a natural disaster, with the goal of providing additional information from social media to the mapping operators. Œis demo shows the €rst results of the E2mC H2020 European project, where the goal is to extract precisely located information from available social media sources, providing accurate...

Fuorisalone during Milano Design Week, with almost three thousands events spread around more than six hundreds venues, attracts half a million visitors: what do they say and feel about those events? Twindex Fuorisalone is a mash-up that listens what all those visitors posted on Twitter and Instragram in that week. In this paper, we briefly report on how Twindex Fuorisalone works and on its abil...

Highlights: The key accomplishments achieved during Phase I of this Nayar Prize II project are as follows: (1.) Conducted dozens of interviews with parents, school administrators, and law enforcement to understand where cyberbullying takes place, what types of cyberbullying are the most important to detect, who is the most appropriate person to alert, and how the output of a forecasting system ...

Introduction In 2015, there was an outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil that spread throughout the Americas. The association of Zika virus with birth defects in infants born to infected pregnant women created concern for women of childbearing age. Social media is an important platform for health promotion, communication, and education on preventative methods during Zika virus outbreaks. Methods We ...