{"id":17016,"date":"2019-11-29T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=17016"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:12","slug":"eating-and-tweeting-what-social-media-reveals-about-attitudes-on-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/29\/eating-and-tweeting-what-social-media-reveals-about-attitudes-on-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating and Tweeting: What social media reveals about attitudes on food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/man-drinking-coffee-looking-at-phone-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"asian man drinking coffee looking at phone\" class=\"wp-image-17018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/man-drinking-coffee-looking-at-phone-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/man-drinking-coffee-looking-at-phone-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/man-drinking-coffee-looking-at-phone-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/man-drinking-coffee-looking-at-phone-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/man-drinking-coffee-looking-at-phone-665x374.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/man-drinking-coffee-looking-at-phone.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(MHealth Lab)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interdisciplinary group of U-M researchers turned to Twitter to see whether <a href=\"https:\/\/labblog.uofmhealth.org\/health-tech\/eating-and-tweeting-what-social-media-reveals-about-neighborhood-attitudes-on-food\">online discussions about food can help inform policy makers<\/a>. They used community-based surveys to gather demographic and health-related behavior information that might help explain health status and disparities between groups, and\u00a0whether there were differences between how groups of residents of a given region discussed food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their analysis began by scoring different food-related keywords, including types of foods, modes of preparation, and popular restaurants based on their healthiness. Next, using Twitter\u2019s API, the group gathered geo-tagged tweets from more than 1,200 census tracts around the Detroit area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Social determinants of health, such as neighborhood walkability, mentions of food deserts, safety concerns \u2014 these kinds of references show up in tweets,&#8221;  says\u00a0<strong>V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran<\/strong>, assistant professor at the Medical School and the School of Information, who was lead author on the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary group of U-M researchers turned to Twitter to see whether online discussions about food can help inform policy makers. They used community-based surveys to gather demographic and health-related behavior information that might help explain health status and disparities between groups, and\u00a0whether there were differences between how groups of residents of a given region discussed food. 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