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Publication technologies: blogs and wikis in health and medicine …a look at potential applications in public health Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/archives/dmp/archivesmonth/favorites_koop.html
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Page 1: Publication technologies: blogs and wikis in health and medicine

Publication technologies: blogs and wikis in health and medicine

…a look at potential applications in public health

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/archives/dmp/archivesmonth/favorites_koop.html

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To share is to learn

“…a student’s colleagues often represent the least recognized, least used and most important of all the resources available to him”

… a student’s ability to find information online, create content and work with others to achieve his or her learning goals is under-utilized by educators….

MacKenzie N , Eraut M. (1972)

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

Collaborative editing of “health informatics” in Wikipedia …

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What is a blog?

“…a blog or weblog is a personal diary, collaborative space, breaking-news outlet and a collection of links to your own private views memos to the world… in short, your blog is whatever you want it to be. In simple terms, a blog is a website, where you write on an ongoing basis. New posts show up at the top, so your visitors can read what is new... they comment on it or link to it or email you... weblogs are used to satisfy a variety of communication needs and favour e-learning practices (Susana & Sergio 2007)…”

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

e.g., CDC Social Media ToolkitImage: http://bit.ly/9YxYtV

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What is a wiki?

“…wikis allow asynchronous communication and group collaboration across the Internet. Variously described as a composition system, a discussion medium, a repository, a mail system, and a tool for collaboration, wikis provide users with both author and editor privileges; the overall organization of contributions can be edited as well as the content itself. Wikis are able to incorporate sounds, movies, and pictures; they may prove to be a simple tool to create multimedia presentations and simple digital stories….”

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

WikiDoc The Living Textbook of MedicineThe Original Medical Wiki / Encyclopedia

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Wikis vs. blogs – what are the differences?

“…wikis are often compared to blogs because they are both characterized by easy publishing capabilities. They both started about the same time, about a decade ago, and both offer an easy publishing tool for disseminating information as well as getting feedback to and from the public. Early wikis were intended for multiple users to create knowledge repositories, while blogs were intended for writing personal diaries. Although they are different in several ways, the distinctions between them are subtle because they are converging in functionality. There are a number of main differences between wikis and blogs, among them being the way they organize their information, and the number of contributors and what the contributors intend to achieve (Doyle, 2006)…”

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

http://www.wikimatrix.org/

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Blogs & wikis in public health

Blogs

• Creating a Road Map: Local Public Health 2.0 http://www.lib.umich.edu/creating-road-map-local-public-health-20

• Dr. Buttery’s Public Health blog http://blog.vcu.edu/cbuttery/

• GetReady blog http://getreadyforflu.blogspot.com/

• Public Health Science Communication 2.0 http://bjerglund.wordpress.com/about/

Wikis

• Public Health wiki http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/publichealth/index.php/Main_Page

• WikiPH http://wikiph.org/index.php?title=Wiki_Public_Health

• Toxipedia http://toxipedia.org

Aggregator sites

• Social Media for Public Health - http://www.lib.umich.edu/social-media-public-health

• Ning Network: http://smforph.ning.com/

• Webicina: Public Health and Web 2.0 http://www.webicina.com/public-health

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

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Think-Pair-Share

• Spend five (5) minutes on your own

• List the advantages / disadvantages of using a blog

• Pair up with someone (or two people)

• Share your list of advantages / disadvantages

• Present some ideas to the instructor

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

Repeat same exercise – this time listing advantages / disadvantages of wikis

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Any one can publish

Any one can

edit

It stays only if

there is consensus

Infinite memo

ry

Open access

No one owns the content

Asymtotically

accurate

Risk at any one time that it is

inaccurate

Requires active

committed community

Benefits of social publishing

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

…in public health

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Old media – 20th century Publishing format(s)

Newspapers • Local, national, international• Uniformity

Paid ads, press releases, Op-Eds, letters to the editor, media events, press conferences

Radio – local & national mostly• synchronous broadcasting

Paid ads, talk shows, public service announcements, media events, press conferences

Television – local & often US-biased• synchronous broadcasting

Paid ads, talk shows, media events, press conferences

New media – 21st century Publishing format(s)

Publishing technologies: blogs & wikis • Geographic, temporal & spatial flexibility• Multiplicity of views

Syndication, “pushing” information to the public Public health: information comes to you

Multimedia • (a)synchronous broadcasting

Platforms: YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia Virtual platforms “learning environments”

Aggregation functionality RSS syndication, wikis, blogsSocial bookmarking & bibliography

Interactive ‘two-way’ spaces Twitter, Facebook, wikis, blogs

Health promotion | old vs. new media

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

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Extremes

cancel out

The median

guess of a group

approaches the best

estimate

Takeaway: “wisdom of the crowd”

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

New understanding is achieved by finding a ‘middle ground’

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Potential Advantages

Potential Disadvantag

es

Blogs & wikis

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

Weighing the pros & cons of social technologies

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Trusted Source• But can it really

be trusted?

Empirical data aggregation• Specific• Applicable?• Current?• Irrefutable?• Conflicting?• Meta analysis of

meta-analyses

Collaborative approach• Applicable to less well

defined problems and complex interventions

• Recognises flux in knowledge and state of the art

• Recognises contestability of all research.

• Employs concept of wisdom of the crowd

Publishing technologies – blogs & wikis

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

Sources of information in scientific discourse

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Get involved

• Write• Edit• Seed topics

Become a topic editor

• Get more formally involved

• Recruit your colleagues

Organise

• Promote• Strategy• Support

Blogs & wikis

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | September 2011

How can you contribute to public health?

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