Review on the Role of Social Media for Dengue Prevention and Monitoring

Abstract:

With the emerging of social media as a platform of interaction, users are now connected with all around the world. This connection enhances dissemination of information from users. Examples of social platforms which are highly used among users are Facebook and Twitter. Recently WHO stated that dengue is currently rising among the countries in the World. In Malaysia, the number of dengue cases are currently rising at an alarming stage where it exceeds the number of last year’s dengue cases. Although traditional methods of distributing surveys and conducting awareness about dengue has been done, positive responses from those efforts are little. In this paper, we have surveyed the feasibility of engaging social media like Twitter for monitoring and preventing dengue. Tweets related to dengue will be analyzed using emotion detection techniques, aiming to identify tweets that generate positive emotion, which in return helpful for dengue monitoring and prevention. Since most of tweets are written in Malay language by Malaysians, a proper dictionary is needed to analyze the emotion of users. The outcome from this study will be beneficial for dengue prevention and monitoring by detecting how Malaysians are actually tweeting and reacting to dengue cases in Malaysia.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 892)
• Pages: 228-233
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.892.228
• Online since: June 2019
• Authors: Rathimala Kannan, Lay Ki Soon, Menagaeswary Govindasamy*
• Keywords: Dengue, Disease Surveillance, Emotion Detection, Social Media

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