Disinformation by design: The use of evidence collages and platform filtering in a media manipulation campaign by Krafft, PM, Donovan, J

“…To examine how disinformation spreads amidst skepticism in this case, we employ a document-driven multi-site trace ethnography to analyze a contested rumor that crossed anonymous message boards, the conservative media ecosystem, and other platforms. …”

Negative impressions of childbirth in a North-West England student population by Gill Thomson, Kathrin Stoll, Soo Downe, Wendy A. Hall

“…Methods: All students received a survey link via an online messaging board and/or direct e-mail. Female students who were 18–40 years of age and childless (but planned to have children in the future) were invited to participate. …”
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Severe COVID-19 anxiety among adults in the UK: protocol for a cohort study and nested feasibility trial of modified cognitive–behavioural therapy for health anxiety by Peter Tyrer, Helen Tyrer, Richard G Watt, Mike J Crawford, Verity C Leeson, Aisling McQuaid, Oluwaseun Samuel, Jacob D King, Martina Di Simplicio, Kirsten Barnicot

“…We excluded people from the trial if they had had COVID-19 within the previous 4 weeks, if they were currently self-isolating or if they were already receiving psychological treatment.We publicised the study nationally through adverts, social media and posts on message boards. We also recruited participants via clinicians working in primary and secondary care NHS services in London. …”
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Supporting instructional change in mathematics: using social network analysis to understand online support processes following professional development workshops by Charles N. Hayward, Sandra L. Laursen

“…Most available studies about ongoing support following professional development on teaching merely state that facilitators made an effort to offer support, or report how frequently participants engaged with online support mechanisms through counting postings on listservs or message boards. Such measures do not show evidence that participants actually received positive reinforcement or intellectual and emotional support, which are crucial to refreezing, nor do these frequency analyses help other professional developers learn how to create productive ongoing support mechanisms that yield high participant engagement. …”
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Research priorities in children requiring elective surgery for conditions affecting the lower limbs: a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership. by Vella-Baldacchino, M, Perry, D, Roposch, A, Nicolaou, N, Cooke, S, Ellis, P, Theologis, T

“…</p> <p><strong>INTERVENTIONS:</strong> Surveys were distributed using various media resources such as newsletters, internet messaging boards and the 'Paediatric Lower Limb Surgery Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) website. …”

Novel interactive text-messaging curriculum for endocrinology board review by Priyanka Majety, Ayodele Ajayi, Anna M. Modest, Maria Vamvini, Jason A. Freed

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Patient perceptions of disease burden and treatment of myasthenia gravis based on sentiment analysis of digital conversations by Ashley Anderson, Jacqueline Pesa, Zia Choudhry, Caroline Brethenoux, Patrick Furey, Louis Jackson, Liliana Gil Valleta, Laura Gonzalez Quijano, Alex Lorenzo

“…The 13,234 conversations were extracted from message boards (51%), social media networks (22%), topical sites (21%), and blogs (6%). …”
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Analyzing annual changes in network structures of a social media application-based information-sharing system in a Japanese community by Junji Haruta, Sho Tsugawa, Kazunari Ogura

“…Methods We analyzed data on SNS-based information sharing networks with online message boards for healthcare professionals for 2018, 2019, and 2020 in a Japanese community. …”
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Making local connections : the development of social capital through place-based virtual groups by Hulsman, Maryann (Maryann Madeline)

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Analysis of practical use of modern internet technology as a mean of marketing communications in the field of B2B and B2C by Yu.M. Melnyk, D.V. Korinсhenko

“…Internet marketing complex includes traditional communication tools: advertising, sales promotion, public relations, direct marketing, personal selling, sponsorship and modern facilities due to the specifics of the Internet resource (own corporate site, content sites, portals, banners, virtual communities, social networks, forums, message boards, search engines, etc.) that are implemented using Internet technology (social media marketing, viral marketing, product placement, lead generation, search engine optimization, targeting, etc.). …”
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Classification of basic forms and types of marketing on-line communications by Yu.M. Melnik, L.Yu. Saher, N.S. Illiashenko, Yu.M. Ryazantseva

“…More over, a website was proposed to be considered as the only means of communication on the Internet, but the information (communicative message) can be presented online in various forms, hence the need to distinguish various means of Internet communications occurs: electronic media, banners, portals, Rich media, blogs, forums search engines, message boards, e-mail, articles, video blocks, files, cookies, personal pages, virtual communities and so on. …”
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