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Preliminary Evidence for the Emergence of a Health Care Online Community of Practice: Using a Netnographic Framework for Twitter Hashtag Analytics

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Internet Research, July 2017
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Title
Preliminary Evidence for the Emergence of a Health Care Online Community of Practice: Using a Netnographic Framework for Twitter Hashtag Analytics
Published in
Journal of Medical Internet Research, July 2017
DOI 10.2196/jmir.7072
Pubmed ID
Authors

Damian Roland, Jesse Spurr, Daniel Cabrera

Abstract

Online communities of practice (oCoPs) may emerge from interactions on social media. These communities offer an open digital space and flat role hierarchy for information sharing and provide a strong group identity, rapid flow of information, content curation, and knowledge translation. To date, there is only a small body of evidence in medicine or health care to verify the existence of an oCoP. We aimed to examine the emergence of an oCoP through the study of social media interactions of the free open access medical education (FOAM) movement. We examined social media activity in Twitter by analyzing the network centrality metrics of tweets with the #FOAMed hashtag and compared them with previously validated criteria of a community of practice (CoP). The centrality analytics of the FOAM community showed concordance with aspects of a general CoP (in terms of community, domain, and practice), as well as some specific traits of a health care community, including social control, common purpose, flat hierarchy, and network-based and concrete achievement. This study demonstrated preliminary evidence of an oCoP focused on education and based on social media interactions. Further examination of the topology of the network is needed to definitely prove the existence of an oCoP. Given that these communities result in significant knowledge translation and practice change, further research in this area appears warranted.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 97 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 15%
Student > Master 11 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 10%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Other 7 7%
Other 26 27%
Unknown 20 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 25%
Social Sciences 12 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 10%
Computer Science 8 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 5%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 23 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 130. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 August 2020.
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#320,618
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Medical Internet Research
#193
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#6,820
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Internet Research
#7
of 113 outputs
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