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Media Mention
Apr 18, 2011Dose of Digital
Somewhere along the way, I began to notice that I developed a really low tolerance for the abuse of legitimate research and statistics in an effort to garner a great headline. When I see these headlines, I’m usually among the first to dig into the...
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Presentation
Dec 14, 2010Susannah Fox
Susannah Fox presented the Pew Internet Project’s latest health and social media research at an open session of the President’s Cancer Panel meeting, “The Future of Cancer Research: Accelerating Scientific Innovation,” on the campus of the Nationa...
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Commentary
Nov 17, 2010Susannah Fox
What is the reach and scope of online social networks? A CNN story prompts debate.
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Presentation
Nov 12, 2010Susannah Fox
HealthCampDC is the latest in the HealthCamp un-conference series addressing the transformation of health care to a participatory model with active patient engagement through the use of social networking sites, open standards and web 2.0.
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Media Mention
Nov 8, 2010WBUR's Here and Now
When you get sick, is your first stop Google or WebMD? According to a survey by Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, 61 percent of Amer...
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Commentary
Nov 1, 2010Susannah Fox
Consumers are often described as the greatest untapped information resource in medicine, but our research shows that patients and caregivers are already accessing that knowledge.
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Presentation
Oct 25, 2010Lee Rainie
This keynote will explore the Pew Internet Project’s latest findings on health searches and sharing on the internet and smart phones, as well as how digital technologies allow patient-centered communities to emerge and give care to those who are s...
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More in: Communities, Health, Mobile
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Commentary
Oct 11, 2010Susannah Fox
Spot the opportunity: Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Nearly half of American adults use online social network sites. Networks magnify whatever they are seeded with, for good or for ill.
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Presentation
Sep 13, 2010Susannah Fox
Susannah Fox will discuss the social life of health information and its potential for transforming health care.
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Commentary
Aug 30, 2010Susannah Fox
The phenomenon of using the internet to gather and share health information is now mainstream. It's time to change how we talk about it, revising and maybe even retiring certain terms.
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