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  1. Tracking consumers who use mental health websites

    Article • Mental Health and Digital Technologies, March 2025, Emerald

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein

  2. Social Media Memes and Early Public Opinion Formation Regarding Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) as a Public Health Threat in the United States

    Article • Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein

  3. Assessing Message Deployment During Public Health Emergencies Through Social Media: Empirical Test of Optimizing Content for Effective Dissemination

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, July 2024, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein

  4. Tracker tech on prescription drug websites

    Article • International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, February 2024, Emerald

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein

  5. Assessing Message Deployment During Public Health Emergencies Through Social Media: Empirical Test of Optimizing Content for Effective Dissemination (Preprint)

    Article • July 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein

  6. Social network analysis of COVID-19 vaccine YouTube videos in Odisha, India: mapping the channel network and analyzing comment sentiment

    Article • BMC Proceedings, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein

  7. Promoting Vaccination in India through Videos: The Role of Humor, Collectivistic Appeal and Gender

    Article • Vaccines, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein

  8. A study of web ecology: The use of trackers on pro science climate change and climate denier websites

    Article • New Media & Society, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein

  9. A Multi-Platform Approach to Monitoring Negative Dominance for COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Information Online

    Article • Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, May 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein

  10. Toxicity and verbal aggression on social media: Polarized discourse on wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Big Data & Society, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Emeritus Professor Neil Alperstein