Trends in Twitter Use by Physicians at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, 2010 and 2011

Aafia Chaudhry · Leonard Michael Glodé · Matt Gillman · Robert Stephen Miller

97 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Oncology Practice

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Social Media in Health Education Academic Publishing and Open Access Social Media and Politics

Abstract

PURPOSE: Social media channels such as Twitter are gaining increasing acceptance as mechanisms for instantaneous scientific dialogue. Professional medical societies such as ASCO are using social media to expand the reach of scientific communications at and around their scientific meetings. This article examines the how Twitter use by oncologists expanded at the ASCO Annual Meetings from 2010 to 2011. METHODS: In both years, tweets that were specifically generated by physicians and that incorporated the official meeting hashtag were harvested from the public domain, and a discourse analysis was performed by three independent raters. Follow-up surveys were conducted to assess physician attitudes toward Twitter and its potential role in clinical practice. RESULTS: A combined total of 12,644 tweets were analyzed for 2010 and 2011. Although the number of physicians authoring tweets was small (14 in 2010, 34 in 2011), this group generated nearly 29% of the total meeting dialogue examined in this analysis in 2010 and 23% in 2011. Physicians used Twitter for reporting clinical news from scientific sessions, for discussions of treatment issues, for promotion, and to provide social commentary. The tangible impact of Twitter discussions on clinical practice remains unclear. CONCLUSION: Despite the 140-character limit, Twitter was successfully used by physicians at the 2010 and 2011 ASCO Annual Meetings to engage in clinical discussions, whether or not an author was on site as a live attendee. Twitter usage grew significantly from 2010 to 2011. Professional societies should monitor these phenomena to enhance annual meeting attendee user experience.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 97 citations exist upstream.

References

2010Dissemination of health information through social networks: Twitter and antibiotics 2011Physicians on Twitter 2010Social media policies at US medical schools 2011Professionalism in the Digital Age 2011Overthrowing the Protest Paradigm? How The New York Times, Global Voices and Twitter Covered the Egyptian Revolution

Cited by

2016ReCAP: Social Media Use Among Physicians and Trainees: Results of a National Medical Oncology Physician Survey 2014European Association of Urology (@Uroweb) Recommendations on the Appropriate Use of Social Media 2017Social Media and Pathology: Where Are We Now and Why Does it Matter?2017Analysis of the Use and Impact of Twitter During American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meetings From 2011 to 2016: Focus on Advanced Metrics and User Trends 2016Tweeting the Meeting: Twitter Use at The American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting 2013–2016 2014Early adopters or laggards? Attitudes toward and use of social media among urologists 2014Use of Twitter to document the 2013 Academic Surgical Congress 2014

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.