Identifying Topics for E-Cigarette User-Generated Contents: A Case Study From Multiple Social Media Platforms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) is an emerging product with a rapid-growth market in recent years. Social media has become an important platform for information seeking and sharing. We aim to mine hidden topics from e-cigarette datasets collected from different social media platforms.

Objective

This paper aims to gain a systematic understanding of the characteristics of various types of social media, which will provide deep insights into how consumers and policy makers effectively use social media to track e-cigarette-related content and adjust their decisions and policies.

Methods

We collected data from Reddit (27,638 e-cigarette flavor-related posts from January 1, 2011, to June 30, 2015), JuiceDB (14,433 e-juice reviews from June 26, 2013 to November

SUBMITTER: Zhan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5291865 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature