Month: March 2019

So I found three different kinds of research pieces one book, one academic article, and journalistic source. The Journalistic source, is an article from WebMD itself showing a positive look on Reddit affecting people in a positive way. The article describes how children of anti-vaccination parents find out the risks they are being held at and how important it would be to get vaccinated as soon as possible to not contract ancient already eradicated diseases such as Measles. The Book I found, is a book on Alternative Medicines and their ethics as well as effectiveness, basically an all about alternative treatments. This would help my paper as social media has led to a rise in alternative non-traditional medicines that have been met with benefits for many people, however, some of these unorthodox methods have been toxic or highly ineffective. The academic peer-reviewed article, is an article on the rise of consumers utilizing social media for various health purposes, and gaining health knowledge which is hand-in-hand with the topic I plan to break down, the benevolent affect of social media on health and care relating to treatments, advice, and remedies.

1. What is a person’s immediate reaction when experiencing a new range of symptoms?
2. Where do people initially seek help from ailments/conditions/symptoms?
3. How often do people get misdiagnosed on a service like WebMD?
4. How often do people visit sites like Mayo Clinic, WebMD, Reddit, Youtube, for medical advice?
5. How many people are affected by pressure to participate in internet challenges?
6. How many people have actually participated in internet challenges?
7. Who has been hurt in internet challenges?
8. How often to people get a sense of paranoia from what they read?
9. Are sites like WebMD ever helpful?
10. How has Reddit/WebMD helped people in the past?
11. What are some medicines making a come back thanks to social media?
12. What are some remedies making a comeback due to social media?
13. Any controversial medicines are on the rise?
14. Any controversial treatments gaining weight?
15. How often do people use apps/social media/etc. For help with anxiety and depression?
16. What apps/softwares are used to help people with mental health issues?
17. What are known cases of using online sources solving serious problems?
18. How have networks connected Doctors and patients?
19. Are traditional methods making a comeback?
20. Risks that these networks pose?