Abstract
Background: On May 5, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized a rule extending its authority to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco and pipe tobacco, among others, which aims to help protect Americans from the dangers of tobacco and nicotine, especially the youth. The policy can be seen as a new intervention and become a hot discussion topic among the users in Twitter. Objective: This paper aims to examine the tweets related to the FDA's new policy in the social media, and gain a systematic understanding of users' responses to the intervention and the regulation. Methods: A total of 13864 tweets related to the policy from May 1st, 2016 to May 31st, 2016 were collected and analyzed, the support and opposition viewpoints about the six aspects including Regulation, Health, Industry, Democracy, Science, and Children were summarized, the time-sequence co-occurrence pattern of high-frequency words and the analysis of retweet and user dissemination network were analyzed. Results: Tweets are classified into six broad themes: Regulation, Health, Children, Industry, Science, and Democracy, the number of tweets about the six themes is 7547, 2764, 1678, 795, 670, 45. There are more supports on Regulation, Health, Science, and Children, the ratio of support(opposition) on the four themes are 80.6%(19.4%), 74.9%(25.1%), 85.9%(14.1%), 75.8%(24.2%), respectively, as for the themes of industry and democracy, most users hold the opposing view. The co-occurrence frequencies of gvaping. and "vape", "stocks" and "bigTobacco", "vapingsaveslives" and "vapeivote" are 328, 61, 104. A network with 222 retweets and 361 replies is constructed. Among the 361 replies, there are 62 negative replies accounting for 17.2%, 120 positive replies accounting for 33.2%, and 179 neutral replies accounting for 49.6%. It shows clearly that social media such as Twitter can be employed to gather valuable user feedback effectively and response on the government regulation.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | ICMHI 2018 - Proceedings of 2018 the 2nd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450363891 |
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| State | Published - Jun 8 2018 |
| Event | 2nd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics, ICMHI 2018 - Tsukuba, Japan Duration: Jun 8 2018 → Jun 10 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series |
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Conference
| Conference | 2nd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics, ICMHI 2018 |
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| Country | Japan |
| City | Tsukuba |
| Period | 6/8/18 → 6/10/18 |
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Keywords
- Deeming rule
- E-cigarette
- Intervention
- Regulations
- Social media
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Software
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Understanding of users' response to the intervention of FDA's new deeming rules in twitter. / Luo, Yin; Li, Qiudan; Sun, Song; Zeng, Dajun; Leischow, Scott J.
ICMHI 2018 - Proceedings of 2018 the 2nd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 1-8 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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T1 - Understanding of users' response to the intervention of FDA's new deeming rules in twitter
AU - Luo, Yin
AU - Li, Qiudan
AU - Sun, Song
AU - Zeng, Dajun
AU - Leischow, Scott J.
PY - 2018/6/8
Y1 - 2018/6/8
N2 - Background: On May 5, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized a rule extending its authority to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco and pipe tobacco, among others, which aims to help protect Americans from the dangers of tobacco and nicotine, especially the youth. The policy can be seen as a new intervention and become a hot discussion topic among the users in Twitter. Objective: This paper aims to examine the tweets related to the FDA's new policy in the social media, and gain a systematic understanding of users' responses to the intervention and the regulation. Methods: A total of 13864 tweets related to the policy from May 1st, 2016 to May 31st, 2016 were collected and analyzed, the support and opposition viewpoints about the six aspects including Regulation, Health, Industry, Democracy, Science, and Children were summarized, the time-sequence co-occurrence pattern of high-frequency words and the analysis of retweet and user dissemination network were analyzed. Results: Tweets are classified into six broad themes: Regulation, Health, Children, Industry, Science, and Democracy, the number of tweets about the six themes is 7547, 2764, 1678, 795, 670, 45. There are more supports on Regulation, Health, Science, and Children, the ratio of support(opposition) on the four themes are 80.6%(19.4%), 74.9%(25.1%), 85.9%(14.1%), 75.8%(24.2%), respectively, as for the themes of industry and democracy, most users hold the opposing view. The co-occurrence frequencies of gvaping. and "vape", "stocks" and "bigTobacco", "vapingsaveslives" and "vapeivote" are 328, 61, 104. A network with 222 retweets and 361 replies is constructed. Among the 361 replies, there are 62 negative replies accounting for 17.2%, 120 positive replies accounting for 33.2%, and 179 neutral replies accounting for 49.6%. It shows clearly that social media such as Twitter can be employed to gather valuable user feedback effectively and response on the government regulation.
AB - Background: On May 5, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized a rule extending its authority to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco and pipe tobacco, among others, which aims to help protect Americans from the dangers of tobacco and nicotine, especially the youth. The policy can be seen as a new intervention and become a hot discussion topic among the users in Twitter. Objective: This paper aims to examine the tweets related to the FDA's new policy in the social media, and gain a systematic understanding of users' responses to the intervention and the regulation. Methods: A total of 13864 tweets related to the policy from May 1st, 2016 to May 31st, 2016 were collected and analyzed, the support and opposition viewpoints about the six aspects including Regulation, Health, Industry, Democracy, Science, and Children were summarized, the time-sequence co-occurrence pattern of high-frequency words and the analysis of retweet and user dissemination network were analyzed. Results: Tweets are classified into six broad themes: Regulation, Health, Children, Industry, Science, and Democracy, the number of tweets about the six themes is 7547, 2764, 1678, 795, 670, 45. There are more supports on Regulation, Health, Science, and Children, the ratio of support(opposition) on the four themes are 80.6%(19.4%), 74.9%(25.1%), 85.9%(14.1%), 75.8%(24.2%), respectively, as for the themes of industry and democracy, most users hold the opposing view. The co-occurrence frequencies of gvaping. and "vape", "stocks" and "bigTobacco", "vapingsaveslives" and "vapeivote" are 328, 61, 104. A network with 222 retweets and 361 replies is constructed. Among the 361 replies, there are 62 negative replies accounting for 17.2%, 120 positive replies accounting for 33.2%, and 179 neutral replies accounting for 49.6%. It shows clearly that social media such as Twitter can be employed to gather valuable user feedback effectively and response on the government regulation.
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KW - E-cigarette
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KW - Regulations
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