{"319181":{"#nid":"319181","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center  Brown Bag Seminar Series:  Munmun De Choudhury","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMunmun De Choudhury\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOpportunities of Social Media in Health and Wellbeing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeople are increasingly using social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, to share their thoughts and opinions with their contacts. Consequently, there has been a corresponding surge of interest in utilizing continuing streams of evidence from social media on posting activity to reflect on people\u2019s psyches and social milieus. In this talk, I will discuss how the ubiquitous use of social media as well as the abundance and growing repository of such data bears potential to provide a new type of \u201clens\u201d for inferring health related behaviors and mechanisms. Specifically, I will discuss the harnessing of social media in examining patterns of activity, emotional, and linguistic correlates for childbirth and postnatal course in new mothers, and how online social tools provide a conducive platform of support to vulnerable populations. Finally, I will also discuss clinical and design implications, as well as our social and ethical responsibilities around interpretation and automatic inference of health states of people from their online social footprints.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMunmun De Choudhury is currently an assistant professor at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech and a faculty associate with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. Munmun\u2019s research interests are in computational social science. She builds and applies computational methods to large-scale online social data to understand and reason about people\u2019s behavior and well-being. Munmun\u2019s research has won several awards, including a best paper and honorable mention awards from ACM SIGCHI, as well as has been extensively covered in popular press. Previously, Munmun was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, and obtained her PhD from Arizona State University in 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Opportunities of Social Media in Health and Wellbeing"}],"uid":"27774","created_gmt":"2014-08-26 11:21:46","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:21:56","author":"Alishia Farr","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-09-04T12:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-09-04T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-09-04T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-09-04 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-09-04 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-09-04 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}