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Get Social Health

October 9, 2018 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

A group of adults sitting around a campfire in the woods

Janet Kennedy recently hosted me on the Get Social Health podcast, which focuses on how social media is being used to help hospitals, clinicians, caregivers, and patients connect and engage. We discuss how Twitter hashtags can be like camp fires, where people gather to tell stories, and why I have empathy for people who don’t […]

Filed Under: social media, trends & principles Tagged With: Hhs, HopeLab Foundation, Mayo Clinic, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Well Being Trust

The business case for paying attention to teens

September 14, 2018 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Young woman holding smartphone with a person standing in the background

Three blockbuster reports focused on teens and technology have come out recently: Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018, by Monica Anderson and Jingjing Jiang (Pew Research Center) Digital Health Practices, Social Media Use, and Mental Well-Being Among Teens and Young Adults in the U.S., by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox (Hopelab and Well Being Trust) […]

Filed Under: demographics, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: Common Sense Media, HopeLab Foundation, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, social media, teens, Vicky Rideout, Well Being Trust

Teens and young adults:
In their own words

August 2, 2018 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

I like to look at what my friends are doing. It makes me happy to see them being happy. Takes my mind off my troubles and stress.

The Hopelab/Well Being Trust report is based on a nationally-representative online survey which we designed to have as many open-end questions as we could squeeze into it. We were overwhelmed (in a good way) with the responses. Hundreds of teens and young adults shared vignettes about how they are managing their health, both physical and emotional, using mobile […]

Filed Under: social media, trends & principles Tagged With: social media, teens

Digital health practices among teens and young adults in the U.S.

July 31, 2018 By Susannah Fox 13 Comments

A young woman holds her phone up so it blocks her face. Background is a field of yellow flowers.

I am thrilled to share new, national survey data on the digital health landscape. Thanks to funding and guidance from Hopelab and the Well Being Trust, Vicky Rideout and I measured how teens and young adults (14- to 22-year-olds) pursue health and well-being using the tools at their disposal — apps, peer advice, online communications […]

Filed Under: demographics, peer-to-peer health care, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: HopeLab Foundation, mental health, Peer To Peer, peer-to-peer healthcare, teens, Vicky Rideout, Well Being Trust

Clinical trials jump on the Cluetrain

June 22, 2018 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Man rushes toward a modern train

When the organizers of a National Cancer Institute workshop on social media and clinical trials invited me to speak, they said: We have an ethical obligation to understand social media. Social media is not just trendy. It’s a tool, an opportunity to act in an ethical way, not only to increase recruitment but to help […]

Filed Under: research issues, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: Cluetrain Manifesto, national cancer institute, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, social media

If we give people access to the tools they need to solve problems, they will

March 28, 2018 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

A woman building an device by hand

One of my core beliefs is that if we give people access to the data, information, and tools they need to solve their own problems, they will. The Maker movement is an example of a group of people who embody this idea. They modify and improve the world around them. They look at a problem and not only say, […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, trends & principles Tagged With: #InventHealth, George Hacks, Invent Health, maker movement, Stanford Medicine X

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