ABSTRACT
Social media enable network citizens to share health information and search for information about rare diseases that local doctors may not be able to help them with. The keywords used in each search inquiry can also be a crowdsourcing resource for the monitoring of epidemic diseases such as the swine flu. Social media are powerful tools for ambient diagnoses. They save lives. This chapter explores
• How to analyze the relevancy of the content of social media • How to analyze the reputation of a social media site • How to visualize a social network • How to analyze correlation of variables • What are the tools for designing and analyzing social media?
