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About gretrod

My name is Gretchen Rodriguez.  I am completing a Bachelor’s degree in Information Networking and Telecommunications. I always feel a little nervous when I have classes where I need to write long assignments since my native language is Spanish.  I wish you all have a wonderful semester!

The Effects of Social Media on Healthcare

  Proposal Outline Introduction Brief summary of the research and its methods.  Literature Review Introducing previous research.  Discussing the importance of the research and where it stands compared to others. General summary of methods. General research statement: I propose content analysis be applied to researching how social media influence healthcare in order to fill the … Continue reading The Effects of Social Media on Healthcare

Secondary Research: The Influence of Social Media in Healthcare

The Influence of Social Media in Healthcare   My research topic is the influence of social media in healthcare. Something I noticed when the COVID pandemic started was that many people were getting their information from social media platforms. This led me to question if, with the rise of technology and the fact that social … Continue reading Secondary Research: The Influence of Social Media in Healthcare

Social media in healthcare

Database: EBSCOhost Keyword: social media (506,000+ results) Fitzgerald, K., Yue, Z., Wong, J. C. S., & Green, M. C. (2021). Entertainment and social media use during social distancing: Examining trait differences in transportability and need for social assurance. Psychology of Popular Media. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1037/ppm0000365.supp (Supplemental) Hsu, T. W., Niiya, Y., Thelwall, M., Ko, M., Knutson, B., … Continue reading Social media in healthcare

Research Proposal Discussion

After reading the Informatics Applied Research Project Proposal instructions, the literature review, the introduction, and the proposal structure seem pretty straightforward to complete.  The most challenging aspect of this assignment will be determining which methodology I will be using and how to select my sample. The entire methodology section is very intimidating, and I am … Continue reading Research Proposal Discussion

Personalization in Google’s Search Engine

1.) Provide the citation for the study here.   Krafft, T. D., Gamer, M., & Zweig, K. A. (2019). What did you see? A study to measure personalization in Google’s search engine. EPJ Data Science, 8(1), NA. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A608920190/AONE?u=klnb_fhsuniv&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=37d97ea6   2.) What is the abstract of the article? In this paper we present the results of … Continue reading Personalization in Google’s Search Engine