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Transtracker bookmarked on 2009-05-21 microblogging social media surveillance crowd mining science2.0

Evgeny Morozov's latest, totally uninformed ramblings about the lack of usefulness of social media in general, and Twitter in particular, as tools for public health surveillance.

  • Twitter-disinformation aside, there still remains an important question of whether we could actually use the Internet to spot new epidemics. I haven't yet formed a firm opinion; perhaps, once data from mobiles is well-integrated into our tools this would be possible -- but for now, we are, probably, still are quite far fromfiguring out how to predict epidemics with the Web tools alone (the point being that epidemics usually break out in places with limited internet access).
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      Transtracker on 2009-05-21
      Haven't made up your mind, huh? Actually, it sounds like you have made up your mind...you think it doesn't work. Luckily, people who actually know something about public health and "infodemiology" (a term and area of research you don't even know exists) have made up their minds. And they think, and have in some cases demonstrated in published, peer reviewed scientific articles, that these techniques hold great promise.

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    Evgeny Morozov's latest, totally uninformed ramblings about the lack of usefulness of social media in general, and Twitter in particular, as tools for public health surveillance.

    microblogging social media surveillance crowd mining science2.0

    • Twitter-disinformation aside, there still remains an important question of whether we could actually use the Internet to spot new epidemics. I haven't yet formed a firm opinion; perhaps, once data from mobiles is well-integrated into our tools this would be possible -- but for now, we are, probably, still are quite far fromfiguring out how to predict epidemics with the Web tools alone (the point being that epidemics usually break out in places with limited internet access).
      • TransTracker

        TransTracker on 2009-05-21

        Haven't made up your mind, huh? Actually, it sounds like you have made up your mind...you think it doesn't work. Luckily, people who actually know something about public health and "infodemiology" (a term and area of research you don't even know exists) have made up their minds. And they think, and have in some cases demonstrated in published, peer reviewed scientific articles, that these techniques hold great promise.