Social Networks and Popular Understanding of Science and Health: Sharing Disparities

by Brian G. Southwell

Book Overview

A data-driven analysis of how different people share information about health through social media.

Using social media and peer-to-peer networks to teach people about science and health may seem like an obvious strategy. Yet recent research suggests that systematic reliance on social networks may be a recipe for inequity. People are not consistently inclined to share information with others around them, and many people are constrained...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421413248
• ISBN13: 9781421413242
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"