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Social Media

"Social Media" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Platforms that provide the ability and tools to create and publish information accessed via the INTERNET. Generally these platforms have three characteristics with content user generated, high degree of interaction between creator and viewer, and easily integrated with other sites.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Social Media" by people in this website by year, and whether "Social Media" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 76 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2018
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