Presentation at 30th Rutgers College of Nursing Interprofessional Conference - April 18, 2012 in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
"From E.T.Net and nrsing-l to Facebook and Twitter:
nurses' changing use of global online communications for improving healthcare"
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1. From E.T.Net and nrsing-l to Facebook and Twitter:
nurses' changing use of global online communications for
improving healthcare
Peter J. Murray, W. Scott Erdley
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2. Peter J Murray PhD MSc RN CertEd, FBCS CITP
CEO, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
W Scott Erdley DNS RN
Special Projects Simulation Educational Specialist,
Behling Simulation Center,
University at Buffalo Academic Health Sciences Center
Disclaimer: views expressed are generally personal; and
should not be taken to be any official IMIA view or policy
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4. Content outline/format
Presentation and discussion on following key areas
and others from participant interest/experience:
Looking back – it was 20 years ago today
The 1990s – from text, Telnet and green screens,
to the rise of the Web
The 2000s – from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and beyond
Looking forward – what do being 'always on' and
'always online' mean for interaction?
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5. My aim is to agitate
and disturb people.
I’m not selling bread,
I’m selling yeast.
Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)
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6. The early 1990s
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7. The early 1990s
Listservs:
- launched 1991 - Nrsing-l, the first listserv solely devoted
to nursing informatics
- others, eg NURSENET, NURSE-UK
Mainly email-based interactions
The (very) early Web - the limitations of slow, text-based
browsing
Example: Virtual Nursing College (Jack Yensen, Canada),
1993
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8. Nrsing-l
- the first listserv solely devoted to nursing informatics
- the first nursing listserv (with global membership)
- launched in 1991
- mid to late 1990's had >1500 members
- topics covered wide range of nursing IT issues from
training to systems support
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9. Nrsing-l
- founded by Gordon Larrivee
(Photo from NI94 – in Linda Goodwin's NI history at
http://www.duke.edu/~goodw010/SAVE_HxFiles/NI-Hx/NIhistory.html)
- Scott Erdley took over late 1990s
- hosted via AMIA NIWG from 1999
- list retired in early 2012 due to low levels of use
- archives available for research via
scott.erdley@gmail.com
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10. The early 1990s
Tim Berners-Lee at his desk at CERN in 1994. On Aug. 6, 1991, the
physicist and engineer invited participants in a Usenet discussion group to
access the first-ever publicly accessible Web server hosted by his
employer, the CERN research center in Geneva.
The day marked the beginning of the World Wide Web as we know it today.
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12. What if the technology had not changed?
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13. The mid to late 1990s
Growth of World Wide Web
Commercial Internet Service Providers
Access increasing outside academic settings
Nursing moves onto the Web, but continuation of
listserv discussions and other newer forums
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14. My interest in nurses’ use of CMC
(computer-mediated communications)
MSc research 1993-95 (discourse analysis of NURSENET
list; what was said, how, why, by whom)
PhD research 1995-2001 (reflection on practice in informal
list discussions)
Evidence of some interactions, discussions around and
reflection on practice issues.
Many lurkers/readers, few frequent and consistent active
contributors to discussions.
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15. My interest in nurses’ use of CMC
(computer-mediated communications)
Moved more to use/development of online communities of
practice and virtual interaction around conferences (eg via
blogs)
What more/different could be offered?
Collaborative models of blogging (international group) and
readership – virtual participation in events.
Latterly, more use of Twitter than blogs (many archived).
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18. Into the 2000s – the growth of interaction(?)
Blog (weblog) - emergence and growth of blogs in the
late 1990s coincided with the advent of web-based
publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content
by non-technical users
- term coined late 1997 – widely used from around
2002/03.
Web 2.0 – coined late 2004
Twitter – launched July 2006
Facebook – launched 2004
LinkedIn – launched 2003
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19. Where are we today?
Social media growth
Smartphones and tablet devices
The move to mobile
A golden age of communication and interaction – or
not?
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20. Claims for social media and Web 2.0:
Applications will provide benefit to the international health,
biomedical and nursing informatics communities
- will allow users to interact with a dynamic, multimedia, and
engaging Web platform
- will foster interaction, communities, etc.
- will change the way we work
- will change healthcare, medicine,
nursing, informatics, etc.
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23. The 1% Rule
The 1% rule - if you get a group of 100 people online
then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it
(commenting or offering improvements) and the other
89 will just view it.
How much is REALLY interaction via social media, as
opposed to continuing to broadcast/consume?
- is this a real problem/dichotomy?
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25. Which do you use? - and why?
There are multiple/duplicate channels
Often many used for same purposes - eg reposting
from Twitter to Facebook or vice versa
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26. Observations over the years (from Scott)
A few thoughts:
- Initial communication was either receive (aka 'listserv') or go
get (BBS)
Listserv - user passivity
BBS - user active
Now: social media
Twitter, FB, de.li.ci.ous, etc.
User activity req'd to make work
Frequent lurkers as well (aka 'passivity')
Not much has changed - just the tools
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27. The challenge is not only to anticipate
the future, but to create it
Motto of Institute for Alternative Futures
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31. Please feel free to follow up with us
peterjmurray@gmail.com
@peterjmurray
scott.erdley@gmail.com
@scotterdley
Final version of presentation:
www.slideshare.net/drpeter/rutgers30
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