Creating high-quality, accurate and ethical social media posts presented by Emily Denniss, BFood&Nut
FREE for Dietitian's Day 2024
Social media is a popular source of information about food and nutrition, unfortunately there is a high degree of inaccurate and poor-quality nutrition-related information posted online.
Illustrating with examples of high-quality social media posts Emily’s presentation covers:
- The importance of nutrition communication in social media (92% of Australian adults are active social media users)
- Principles for creating high quality nutrition content
- Considerations for creating accurate nutrition content
- Ethical social media use
Learn about:
- Nutrition communication as essential for health promotion, education and policy change
- The importance of social media as a channel for nutrition communication
- Dietitians and nutritionists taking the role of “trusted voice” by offering effective and ethical social media content
- The four key themes in creating high quality social media content about health
- Transparency
- Authoritative and evidence-based
- Accessibility
- Supportive of the relationships between individuals and health professionals.
Register for this complimentary presentation and associated documents here
Emily Denniss is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at Deakin University. She recently submitted her PhD thesis, which investigated nutrition communication and misinformation on social media and its relationship with young adult diet quality. As a Research Fellow in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Emily is contributing to research aimed at improving consumer understanding of ultra-processed foods through effective communication. Emily also teaches health communication within the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin.