On the Impact of Twitter-based Health Campaigns: A Cross-Country Analysis of Movember

N. Dwi Prasetyo, C. Hauff, Dong-Phuong Nguyen, T. van den Broek, Djoerd Hiemstra

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Abstract

Health campaigns that aim to raise awareness and subsequently raise funds for research and treatment are commonplace. While many local campaigns exist, very few attract the attention of a global audience. One of those global campaigns is Movember, an annual campaign during the month of November, that is directed at men’s health with special foci on cancer & mental health. Health campaigns routinely use social media portals to capture people’s attention. Recently, researchers began to consider to what extent social media is effective in raising the awareness of health campaigns. In this paper we expand on those works by conducting an investigation across four different countries, while not only restricting ourselves to the impact on awareness but also on fundraising. To that end, we analyze the 2013 Movember Twitter campaigns in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Original languageUndefined
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi)
Place of PublicationLisbon, Portugal
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages55-63
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - Sep 2015
EventSixth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi) - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 17 Sep 201517 Sep 2015

Publication series

Name
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics

Workshop

WorkshopSixth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi)
Period17/09/1517/09/15
Other17 Sept 2015

Keywords

  • twitterhealth campaignsocial mediamovember
  • health campaign
  • EWI-26678
  • METIS-315153
  • Social Media
  • Movember
  • IR-99124
  • Twitter

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