Zika-Virus Related Photo-Sharing on Pinterest and Instagram
Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
11-15-2016
Abstract or Description
Communicating accurate, accessible and actionable information to diverse populations is a key component of emergency responses against the Zika virus outbreak. Public health agencies are engaging the public using fast-growing photo-sharing social media sites such as Pinterest and Instagram. In this cross-sectional study, 616 Pinterest photos (keyword: “zika” AND “virus”; the maximum number of photos that we were able to retrieve via web scraping) and 616 Instagram photos (#zikavirus; randomly selected from 9370 Instagram photos retrieved via Instagram Application Programming Interface) were retrieved on April 3, 2016. Two trained individuals manually coded photos based on their relevance to Zika virus, words embedded, language and their content categories (any category that applies). Among our samples, 47% (290/616) of Pinterest photos and 23% (144/616) of Instagram photos were relevant to Zika virus. Words were embedded in 57% (164/290) of relevant Pinterest photos and 100% (144/144) of relevant Instagram photos. Among the photos with embedded words, more Instagram photos were in Spanish and Portuguese (77/144, 53%) than Pinterest (14/164, 9%) (P
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting (ASTMH)
Location
Atlanta, GA
Recommended Citation
Fung, Isaac Chun-Hai, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Mary Elizabeth Goff, Lindsay A. Mullican, Kwun Cheung Chan, Nitin Saroha, Carmen H. Duke, Marina E. Ermeeva, King-Wa Fu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse.
2016.
"Zika-Virus Related Photo-Sharing on Pinterest and Instagram."
Environmental Health Sciences Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 11.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/environ-health-facpres/11
