IT's alive!!: social media to promote public health

  • Authors:
  • Sergio Picazo-Vela;Marilu Fernandez-Haddad;Luis F. Luna-Reyes

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Cholula, Mexico;Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Cholula, Mexico;Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Cholula, Mexico

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Organizations of all types are taking advantage of social media and social networks such as Facebook or Twitter to communicate with their stakeholders. Public managers are also using social media as an engaging and low cost strategy in social marketing programs. However, social media and social networks constitute good examples of technology artifacts with embedded social structures that interact with organizational strategies, potentially limiting design strategies. The technology enactment framework has been used to analyze the factors that affect the adoption implementation, and use of social media technology the case of the Puebla Sana (Healthy Puebla) program in the State of Puebla, Mexico. Social media is used as a key component of a social marketing strategy to promote healthy habits. The case illustrates complex interactions between technology and organizational properties in the process of technology enactment.