Social Media in Healthcare Information

Paula Younger

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2025
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Aimed at new and existing users of social media in their services and LIS students, this essential guide will provide readers with in-depth social media knowledge and authoritative guidance on how it applies to library services in a healthcare environment.

Social media has now been an integral part of life for over 20 years, revolutionizing so many aspects of our lives that it is now difficult to imagine a world without it. As smartphone technology has matured and users have grown more sophisticated in their use of various social media platforms, concerns about privacy, ethics, censorship, and misinformation have grown and become more complex.

Social Media in Healthcare Information provides an overview of current and recent developments in social media, concentrating on the most influential and well-established platforms. In addition to drawing together some of the most recently published scholarship in this area, this necessary book includes practical tips and considerations of how the platforms can be used to support knowledge and library service provision in healthcare settings as well as

  • the use of social media in healthcare research and medical education;
  • COVID-19 and misinformation;
  • digital inequalities and technological barriers;
  • confidentiality, privacy and security;
  • social media campaigns, data analysis and trends; and
  • AI, big data and the future-proofing the profession.

Introduction

Chapter One: The Internet: The Story So Far
Chapter Two: What is Social Media?
Chapter Three: Social Media in Healthcare Settings
Chapter Four: Social Media in Healthcare Research
Chapter Five: The Use of Social Media in Medical Education
Chapter Six: COVID-19 and Misinformation on Social Media
Chapter Seven: Barriers to the Use of Social Media in Healthcare Settings
Chapter Eight: Ethics of social media in healthcare information
Chapter Nine: The Future of Social Media in Healthcare Information

Conclusion

Paula Younger

Paula Younger is a UK Chartered Librarian with several years of experience in NHS, academic, and government libraries and information services. Her interests include the use of technology, health literacy, and healthcare information in languages other than English. Since the 1990s, she has published several articles, which have appeared in several professional LIS and nursing journals as well as on international websites. In 2010, she co-edited Using Web 2.0 for Health Information with Peter Morgan of Cambridge University. Paula is currently Library Manager at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Teaching Hospitals in Greater Manchester, UK.