Paper Info
Title
Give Me a Like: How HIV/AIDS Nonprofit Organizations Can Engage Their Audience on Facebook.
Abstract
With the rapid proliferation and adoption of social media among healthcare professionals and organizations, social media-based HIV/AIDS intervention programs have become increasingly popular. However, the question of the effectiveness of the HIV/AIDS messages disseminated on social media has received scant attention in the literature. The current study applies content analysis to examine the relationship between Facebook messaging strategies employed by 110 HIV/AIDS nonprofit organizations and audience reactions in the form of liking, commenting, and sharing behavior. The results reveal that HIV/AIDS nonprofit organizations often use informational messages as one-way communication with their audience instead of dialogic interactions. Some specific types of messages, such as medication-focused messages, engender better audience engagement; in contrast, event-related messages and call-to-action messages appear to translate into lower corresponding audience reactions. The findings provide guidance to HIV/AIDS organizations in developing effective social media communication strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1521/aeap.2016.28.6.539
AIDS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION
Field
DocType
Volume
Health care,Dialogic,Content analysis,Social media,HIV/AIDS,Public relations,Computer science
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0899-9546
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu-Chao Huang100.34
Yi-Pin Lin200.34
Gregory D. Saxton31318.97