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Building Health Information Networks Using Facebook: A Pilot Study with New Mothers in Rural Appalachia

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This qualitative inquiry studies the key factors influencing the process of building, growing, and sustaining a health information network among new mothers on Facebook, who live in Appalachian Tennessee. Grounded theory analysis of in-depth phone interviews reveal that (i) realizing information needs, (ii) turning to the Internet and social media, (iii) joining the Facebook group, (iv) building a community of practice on the group, (v) information practices of users, and (vi) deriving benefits to meet the information needs, help them build the health information network.

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Potnis, D., Chengalur-Smith, I., & Mishra, G. (2017). Information networks for bridging information divide in isolated communities of farmers in rural India, Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 781--783.

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SIGMIS-CPR'18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research

June 2018

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ISBN:9781450357685

DOI:10.1145/3209626

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Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
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Dalhousie University, Canada
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