J Korean Med Sci.  2021 Jun;36(22):e162. 10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e162.

Modern Health Journalism and the Impact of Social Media

• Ganatra K
• Gasparyan AY
• Gupta L

• KMID: 2516583
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e162

Abstract

Scholarly journals are hubs of hypotheses, evidence-based data, and practice recommendations that shape health research and practice worldwide. The advancement of science and information technologies has made online accessibility a basic requirement, paving the way for the advent of open access publishing, and more recently, to web-based health journalism. Especially in the time of the current pandemic, health professionals have turned to the internet, and primarily to social media, as a source of rapid information transfer and international communication. Hence, the current pandemic has ushered an era of digital transformation of science, and we attempt to understand and assess the impact of this digitization on modern health journalism.

Keyword

Social Media; Open Access Publishing; Medical Journalism

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  Fig. 1 Modern health journalism: an integration of traditional journalism and new age technology.

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