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#Halal Culture on Instagram
Halal is a notion that applies to both objects and actions, and means
permissible according to Islamic law. It may be most often associated with food
and the rules of selecting, slaughtering, and cooking animals. In the
globalized world, halal can be found in street corners of New York and beauty
shops of Manila. In this study, we explore the cultural diversity of the
concept, as revealed through social media, and specifically the way it is
expressed by different populations around the world, and how it relates to
their perception of (i) religious and (ii) governmental authority, and (iii)
personal health. Here, we analyze two Instagram datasets, using Halal in Arabic
(325,665 posts) and in English (1,004,445 posts), which provide a global view
of major Muslim populations around the world. We find a great variety in the
use of halal within Arabic, English, and Indonesian-speaking populations, with
animal trade emphasized in first (making up 61% of the language's stream), food
in second (80%), and cosmetics and supplements in third (70%). The
commercialization of the term halal is a powerful signal of its detraction from
its traditional roots. We find a complex social engagement around posts
mentioning religious terms, such that when a food-related post is accompanied
by a religious term, it on average gets more likes in English and Indonesian,
but not in Arabic, indicating a potential shift out of its traditional moral
framing
360 Quantified Self
Wearable devices with a wide range of sensors have contributed to the rise of
the Quantified Self movement, where individuals log everything ranging from the
number of steps they have taken, to their heart rate, to their sleeping
patterns. Sensors do not, however, typically sense the social and ambient
environment of the users, such as general life style attributes or information
about their social network. This means that the users themselves, and the
medical practitioners, privy to the wearable sensor data, only have a narrow
view of the individual, limited mainly to certain aspects of their physical
condition.
In this paper we describe a number of use cases for how social media can be
used to complement the check-up data and those from sensors to gain a more
holistic view on individuals' health, a perspective we call the 360 Quantified
Self. Health-related information can be obtained from sources as diverse as
food photo sharing, location check-ins, or profile pictures. Additionally,
information from a person's ego network can shed light on the social dimension
of wellbeing which is widely acknowledged to be of utmost importance, even
though they are currently rarely used for medical diagnosis. We articulate a
long-term vision describing the desirable list of technical advances and
variety of data to achieve an integrated system encompassing Electronic Health
Records (EHR), data from wearable devices, alongside information derived from
social media data.Comment: QCRI Technical Repor
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