JAMA last week published a nice viewpoint piece, Social Media and Physicians’ Identity Crisis, written by Margaret Chisolm and her peers at Johns Hopkins. The piece challenges the dated concept of multiple online identities. You can read their ideas here (but you'll have to chisel through JAMA’s paywall). While practically minded public physicians have long ... Continue Reading about Translating Social Concepts for the Academic Consumer
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
I recently had a read Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future? This is a fascinating read that offers a critical look at today's internet business models. Lanier is preoccupied with the power of Big Tech and the marginalization of the middle class. The Internet creates wealth in a very few, Lanier argues, and does so at the expense of the end user. “The primary ... Continue Reading about Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
The Two Things on the Internet
There are only two things on the internet: Content. The stuff that we look at. Conversation. The the dialog that happens around the stuff we look at. Consequently, there are only two things that you can do online: You make the stuff that people look at. You talk about the stuff that other people make. It’s that simple. There actually is a ... Continue Reading about The Two Things on the Internet
The New Digital Age Book Review
In The New Digital Age – Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen take you though a futuristic view of a hyper-connected planet with all of its promises and challenges. From the future of war and cyberterrorism to virtual hate crimes, online identity and cyber discrimination, the authors offer a unique and thorough take on ... Continue Reading about The New Digital Age Book Review
Medical Microcelebrity
I like to look beyond the confines of medicine in order to understand medicine. And I happen to follow a handful of sociologists who bring me things that get me there. Today I stumbled upon "Not This One": Social Movements, the Attention Economy, and Microcelebrity Networked Activism by Zeynep Turfekci. The paper explores a new dynamic borne of the networked age: ... Continue Reading about Medical Microcelebrity
Regulating How Doctors Behave
Institutions are looking for rules to govern how doctors should behave using public digital media. When I'm asked about rules I usually suggest that we start by referencing the standard manual of physician behavior. That, of course, gives us a nice place to start. Blank stares. But certainly there are agreed upon guidelines that direct a physician's conduct ... Continue Reading about Regulating How Doctors Behave