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The Impact of Addiction to Twitter among University Students
Abstract
Twitter has made a big impact on the social environment especially when it comes to young adults that it has become decisively addictive. The objective of this paper was to examine the impact on the addictive usage of Twitter among undergraduates. The questionnaire survey research was conducted on Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) students. The results indicated that of the 100 responses, 34% tended to be heavy Twitter users when they tweeted 5-10 tweets per day. In more extreme case, 10% lost count on how much they tweeted per day. Majority of them (71%) also proclaimed that they were addicted to Twitter with the intention to gain followers (45%), updating news (30%), to know what's happening around them (15%) and to kill their free time (10%). Future studies should assess on the advantages and disadvantages that government agencies or phone service providers may gain based on the findings.
... Studies that analyzed SM addiction focused mainly on Facebook addiction, as it is the most popular online social network (Busalim et al., 2019;Hou et al., 2019), but there is also research conducted on Twitter, Instagram or WeChat® addiction (Ardiana & Tumanggor, 2020;Hussain et al., 2020;Ndasauka et al., 2016;Saaid et al., 2014). Regardless of the SM platform, all studies have shown that addiction to one is positively associated with depression, anxiety, and insomnia, and negatively associated with subjective well-being, social life satisfaction, and academic performance. ...
... The symptoms of SM networks overuse are similar to those experienced by people with chemical or non-chemical addictions. Addiction to SM networks negatively affects self-esteem, mental health, ability to concentrate and academic performance of addicted individuals (Ardiana & Tumanggor, 2020;Kircaburun & Griffiths, 2018;Saaid et al., 2014). ...
In the last 20 years, computer technology has developed rapidly, and internet-based social networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, or Twitter) have proliferated even faster, becoming a very important part of people's lives. But in recent years, a dependence to these sites has emerged, called by many authors social media addiction. In the present study, we aim to analyze if there really is an addiction to social media networks, what are its demographic aspects, which are the health problems that occur in these addicted people, and how to intervene therapeutically in these cases. Currently, social media addiction is not recognized as a disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but is considered more of a behavioral addiction or a subtype of Internet addiction. If we look at this matter from an anthropological and philosophical point of view, such type of addiction can originate in what is related to the specificity of man in the contemporary world. Symptoms of excessive use of SM networks may include decreased ability to concentrate and decreased academic performance, insomnia, altered self-perception, decreased self-esteem, anxiety, depressed mood, and psycho-emotional lability. SM addiction prevention strategies should be implemented based on behavioral risk factors and demographic characteristics. The goal of treatment for this type of addiction, unlike other addictions, is not total abstinence, but rather controlled use of social networks, and relapse prevention should use strategies based on cognitive-behavioral therapies.
... This behaviour is demonstrated by their continuous content consuming, scrolling, texting, and watching videos on their smartphones. To them, random and continuous seek of experiences, information and novelty is a habit and sometimes even an addiction (Saaid, Al-Rashid and Abdullah 2014). This is so true when taking into consideration the abundance of options and information that are offered online, and the ease of access and exposure that Gen Zers have to all these sources. ...
... They are expected to evaluate their entire booking experience and the actual travel experience, which are two entirely different realities, but strongly interconnected (Xiang, Magnini and Fesenmaier 2015). Naturally, the post-booking stage is expected to strongly influence their future travel and service provider choices and recommendations to peers (Saaid, Al-Rashid and Abdullah 2014). ...
Purpose – To propose a new decision-making process that Generation Zers adopt when they shop for travel and tourism services through social and mobile applications (i.e., hotels, airlines, attractions, and restaurants).
Design – A qualitative research was used to explore the changes and unique characteristics of the Generation Z’s different stages of social travel decision-making.
Methodology – A conceptual approach that relies on an extensive literature review of classical decision-making models reflecting the changes and differences in each stage in the process.
Approach – The authors rely on Engel-Kollat-Blackwell’s (EKB) consumer decision-making model as a base to understand and propose a modified model.
Findings – The authors propose a new social decision-making process model for Generation Z. The proposed model consists of five stages and each step is deeper and more complex than ever
before. These stages are as follows: 1) Inspiration, 2) Need for Social Recognition, 3) Planning, Search and Evaluation, 4) Booking, and 5) Post-Booking Evaluation.
Originality of the research – The paper is the first study to propose a unique decision-making process for Generation Z travellers in the realm of social and mobile business.
... The field of social media addiction is distinguished by a multitude of assessment tools that target specific types of obsessive social media use, such as addiction to Facebook (Ryan et al., 2014), addiction to Twitter (Saaid et al., 2014), and addiction to social network sites . There are two issues with the fragmentation of social media research using specific tools to address particular types of social media addiction. ...
Abstract: India is a country that has seen a notable increase in the amount of time its
citizens spend on the Internet. One of the primary drivers of internet usage is the
widespread adoption of social media platforms. When there is compulsive and
unhealthy use of those platforms, it is termed Social Media Disorder (SMD), which
has far-reaching implications. However, a valid tool to measure this issue still needs to
be created in India. The study aimed to determine the reliability and validity of the
Social Media Disorder Scale (SMDS), initially developed in the Netherlands. The
developers used the diagnostic criteria of DSM-5 Internet Gaming Disorder since both
have the same overarching construct of internet addiction. The nine-dimensional 27-
item scale was put through a rigorous validation process while being administered
among 552 adolescents in five districts and two states of India. The data collection
lasted for three months between March - May, 2024. Construct validity of SMDS was
assessed with Exploratory Factor Analysis (first subsample n=280) and Confirmatory
Factor Analysis (second subsample n=272) using SPSS and AMOS software,
respectively. The nine dimensions and 27 items were retained, yielding an internal
consistency Cronbach’s alpha of 0.945. This comprehensive validation process has
ensured and provided strong evidence that the scale can be utilized in the Indian
context to assess SMD.
... An increasing number of studies have suggested that SMA should be considered a behavioral addiction. [6][7][8] According to a study by Bányai et al., 9 the prevalence rate of SMA among adolescents is 4.5%. ...
Objective:
Previous research has explored a variety of mental disorders associated with Internet Gaming Disoder (IGD) and Social Media Addiction (SMA). To date, few studies focused on the network characteristics and investigated mood and sleep symptoms across SMA and IGD of adolescence at a group-specific level. This study aims to identify different characteristics of IGD and SMA and further determine the group-specific psychopathology process among adolescents.
Methods:
We conducted a cross-sectional study to recruit a cohort of 7,246 adolescents who were scored passing the cutoff point of Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form and Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale, as grouped in IGD and SMA, or otherwise into the control group. Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index were assessed for the current study, and all assessed items were investigated using network analysis.
Results:
Based on the analytical procedure, the participants were divided into three groups, the IGD group (n=789), SMA group (n=713) and control group (n=5,744). The edge weight bootstrapping analysis shows that different groups of networks reach certain accuracy, and the network structures of the three groups are statistically different (pcontrol-IGD=0.004, pcontrol-SMA<0.001, pIGD-SMA<0.001). The core symptom of SMA is "feeling down, depressed, or hopeless", while IGD is "feeling tired or having little energy".
Conclusion:
Although IGD and SMA are both subtypes of internet addiction, the psychopathology processes of IGD and SMA are different. When dealing with IGD and SMA, different symptoms should be addressed.
... Because the newest (fifth) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases does not include a notion termed "addiction," relevant researchers and professionals tend to identify addiction as substance misuse and substance dependence to substitute mental disorders [14,15]. In the meanwhile, there exist various synonyms of social media addiction which is another factor that contributes to the inconsistency of empirical studies, such as Mobile SNS Addiction [16], Social Media Disorder [17], Problematic Mobile Phone Use [15], Facebook addition [18], Twitter addiction [19]. ...
As technology advances, social media has become an integral part of people's lives. Meanwhile, individuals' lifestyles have changed dramatically today when COVID-19 is rampant. In the epidemic control, home isolation has become the norm in China. The current study explored the mediating role of time perspective (TP) between social media use and internalizing symptoms during the pandemic. In this study, we used Swedish Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (S-ZTPI), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and other correlation questionnaires. Participants (n=503) were asked to finish a series of tests. The findings suggest a link between problematic social media usage (PSMU), TP, and depression and anxiety. The link between PSMU and Internalizing symptoms is totally mediated by TP.
... A survey conducted on 100 university students, showed that 10% lost count of how many times they tweeted per day. (Saaid et al., 2014) With such high usage, many studies have tried to categorise the impacts of social media addiction. Many overlapping problems presented include social comparisons (Boer et al., 2021), negative impacts on self-identity (Zhou, 2020), impaired sleep (Andreassen, 2015), and loneliness (Arora & Okunbor, 2015), all leading to lower mental health and life satisfaction (Boer et al., 2021). ...
Social media platforms or Social Network Sites(SNSs) are platforms we incorporate into our daily lives. They connect individuals from around the globe, present us with information, and provide content tailored to our interests. However, social media addiction in certain communities like the youth has become widespread. In order to understand where social media addiction stems from, we must first explore the motivations behind its use and the design features that social media companies incorporate into their platforms to make them addictive. In this review, we will discuss how motivations for social media use are not homogeneous and differ by culture. As risks for social media addiction differ based on use cases and design, this review serves to see how social media design in China differs from those in the US based on their cultural differences. It will be seen that collectivist communities tend to have higher rates of social media addiction however, this is amplified through social media platforms’ employment of certain design features that play to these cultural features. As a result, these companies have increased the likelihood of social media addiction in already susceptible communities.
... The symptoms of social networking overuse are similar to those experienced by people with chemical or non-chemical addictions. Addiction to social networking negatively affects self-esteem, mental health, ability to concentrate and academic performance of addicted individuals [7][8][9]. ...
Au début du 21e siècle, la technologie informatique s'est développée rapidement et les réseaux sociaux basés sur Internet (par exemple, Fa-cebook, Instagram, WeChat ou Tweeter) ont proliféré encore plus rapi-dement, devenant une partie très importante de la vie des gens. Mais ces dernières années, une dépendance à ces médias sociaux/sites de réseaux sociaux est apparue. Ce type de dépendance a été défini comme «l'utilisa-tion irrationnelle et excessive des médias sociaux dans la mesure où elle interfère avec d'autres aspects de la vie quotidienne». Dans ce présent article, nous présenterons l'addiction aux réseaux so-ciaux, qui peut transformer l'homme en véritable prisonnier d'un nouveau type de culture, qui, contrairement à la culture classique qui ne bénéfi-ciait pas des «avantages de l'intelligence artificielle», peut sérieusement affecter son liberté de décision et peut lui nuire en termes de confort de sa propre vie. Si la dépendance à la technologie définit l'humain même selon certains philosophes, il y a aussi des situations où elle se transforme en dépendan-ce, aliénant l'homme de son essence même culturelle.
... Second, this research supplied the existing literature about social media addiction. Social media addiction has been studied about Facebook addiction (Ryan et al., 2014), addiction to social network sites (Griffiths et al., 2014), Twitter addiction (Saaid et al., 2014), and microblogging dependence (Wang et al., 2015). We paid attention to the topic of livestreaming addiction, a new kind of social media addiction, and explored the mechanisms of it. ...
With the rapid development of livestreaming marketing in China, consumers spend an increasing amount of time watching and purchasing on the platform, which shows a trend of livestreaming addiction. In the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the addiction exacerbated by a surge of boredom caused by home quarantine. Based on the observation of this phenomenon, this research focused on whether state boredom could facilitate consumers’ livestreaming addiction and explored the associated mechanisms of this relationship. Based on three studies, this research found that state boredom had a positive effect on consumers’ livestreaming addiction, and this relationship worked through the mediating effect of consumers’ sensation seeking. We further verified a moderated mediation effect of consumers’ life meaning perception, where the indirect effect of state boredom on consumers’ livestreaming addiction via consumers’ sensation seeking existed for high and low levels of life meaning perception, but in opposite directions. The conclusions provided theoretical and practical implications of livestreaming marketing and healthy leisure consumption.
... Interestingly, experts disagree on the impact of social media on student wellbeing, although most (especially in older research) cite negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic associated with the use of social media [56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70]. According to Meier, this is because "most prior research on the effects of smartphone devices and social media on well-being has worked from either the" technology addiction "or" screen time "approach" [68]. ...
In the context of considerations on the potential attenuation of the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic with the use of credible social media in online education during a pandemic, the subject of our own research was the fulfillment of two goals. The main research goals were to identify, categorize, and evaluate the possibilities of using social media in online education during the pandemic from the perspective of selected teachers and students from secondary schools in Slovakia. The research methods of the first phase (qualitative) of the research involved brainstorming among nine secondary school teachers. The second research phase (quantitative) used a questionnaire, which was completed by 102 high school students from all over Slovakia. The collection of both quantitative and qualitative data was used in this research. The research results revealed the most representative opinions of teachers on the current and real possibilities of engaging credible social media in online education and the views of high school students on their desired use and involvement of social media in online education. The intersection of the two findings presents a picture of the possibilities of using credible social media in online education, which can help maintain students' interest in online education during a pandemic. Based on these findings, it can be stated that the opinions identified in the research group of teachers correspond to a large extent with the desired use of social media in education from the perspective of students. In addition, however, students would welcome more opportunities to use and engage social media in today's online education. The result of this research is an analysis of social media patterns applied to online education, which are of greater interest to students and could act as elements for reducing the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., six forms of online education and 24 educational activities that could contribute, inter alia, to mitigating the different negative effects of the pandemic among youth generation. The findings also benefit from the presentation of many specific options and recommendations for the use of social media in online education during a pandemic.
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Tkáčová, H., Králik, R., Tvrdoň, M., Jenisová, Z., Martín García, J. 2022. Credibility and Involvement of Social Media in Education—Recommendations for Mitigating the Negative Effects of the Pandemic among High School Students. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, roč. 19, č. 5 (2022), p. 2767. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052767
... There is a gap in research aimed to explain the psycho-social mechanisms that underlie social media use, specifically, sharing memes. Past research shows that social media use may lead to addiction, antisocial behaviors, low self-esteem, and other declines on psychological well-being (Caplan, 2007;Dalvi-Esfahani et al., 2019;Gámez-Guadix et al., 2013;Odacı & Kalkan, 2010;Saaid et al., 2014;). Few studies have examined social media use from a psychological perspective in Puerto Rico. ...
Memes are cultural replication units of social experiences that use humor to become viral. Neural systems are involved in social media use. To explore the relationship between psychological well-being (PWB) and meme-sharing behavior, I administered a questionnaire containing the PWB Scale, the Mood regulation and Escape subscales, and mental health-related memes to 249 Puerto Rican residents. I established five hypotheses that were tested with an Independent samples t-test, a one-way ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation. The results demonstrate that individuals with lower PWB tend to share mental health memes to release tension/distract from problems.
... 4 Others found a significant association between PSMU and mental health problems. 5 Several research projects looked deeper into the different types of addictions, for example, Facebook, 6 social networking sites, 7 Twitter, 8 or microblogging. 9 However, studies that have assessed several correlates together on the same population are scarce. ...
Purpose: To assess the relationship of smoking (cigarettes or waterpipe), alcohol drinking, alexithymia, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, stress, social phobia, emotional intelligence, impulsivity, insomnia, physical health, and loneliness with problematic social media use (PSMU) in a sample of Lebanese citizens.
Methods: This cross-sectional study enrolled 466 participants (January-May 2019).
Results: Higher anxiety, alcohol use disorder, and social phobia were correlated with elevated PSMU, while older age was associated with lower PSMU. Emotional intelligence partially mediated the association between alexithymia and PSMU by 4.55%.
Practical implications: Since these manifestations are preventable, spreading awareness through our schools, educational programs, and even health care professionals would considerably reduce the pace at which young adults are transforming into anxious and distorted individuals.
... The proliferation of social media use and its perceived negative impact are a concern for many parents and Still a relatively young field, social media addiction is characterised by e.g. compulsive social media use, such as Facebook addiction (Ryan, Chester, Reece, & Xenos, 2014), addiction to social network sites (Griffiths, Kuss, & Demetrovics, 2014), Twitter addiction (Saaid, Al-Rashid, & Abdullah, 2014), and microblogging dependence (Wang, Lee, & Hua, 2015 (Sariçam & Karduz, 2018;Savci, Ercengiz, & Aysan, 2018). Items are scored 1 for "yes" and 0 for "no" and scores of 5 or more are considered to meet the threshold for a social media disorder. ...
Results of a household survey of 2-19 year olds and their parents providing the first ever prevalence rates of children's and young people's mental health problems in Northern Ireland.
... 263). Given the risks associated to SNS use, a growing interest has been put on PFU [7,8] while few studies focused on Problematic Twitter Use (PTU) [9][10][11]. Some authors [10] found patterns of addiction in PTU through withdrawal symptoms, salience, and desire to control the use. ...
Background:
With a growing number of users, social networking sites have been the subject of numerous recent studies, but little investigation has been given to their problematic use.
Objectives:
Our main objective was to study the relationship between psychopathological variables (i.e., personality traits, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and stress) and problematic Facebook and Twitter use.
Participants and method:
A sample of 1068 Internet users (Mage = 26.64; SD = 9.5) has been recruited online. Participants completed scales exploring problematic Facebook and Twitter use, and psychopathological variables.
Results:
Problematic Facebook and Twitter use were predicted by different pathological personality traits, regrouped in clusters in our study. Depressive and anxiety symptoms were also predictive of problematic Facebook and Twitter use but only stress explained problematic Facebook use. Gender differences have been observed.
Discussion:
This study highlights the relationship between depression, anxiety, stress, pathological personality traits, and problematic Facebook and Twitter use. Significant differences have been retrieved between these two uses and their relationship to psychopathology. Future research should also explore the causal relationship between social networking sites use and psychopathology and consider gender.
... In this sense, the concept of technological dependency has also been used to describe the extreme Internet usage behaviours that arise due to developed technologies [5] [6]. Due to the overuse and over dependency of Internet and Internet based facilities, some new psychological addiction comes in existence like Internet addiction [7] [8], Game addiction [9] [10] [11], Online addiction [12], Social network addiction [13], Mobile phone addiction [14] [15], Facebook addiction [16], Twitter addiction [17] and Social Media addiction [16] [18]. Social media addiction is considered as a kind of Internet addiction [19]. ...
Social networking, which is one of the main products and tool of web 2.0, attracts all age peoples from the society to its virtual world and citizens. It offers a variety of opportunities to the young peoples to go beyond their limited real world to unlimited virtual world where they can do anything without any formal restrictions. Youths are the easiest victim of this virtual world's problems. Social media addiction is now being considered as psychological disorder in all around the world. This study aims to determine level of social media addiction. Social media addiction level shows a continuous increase in daily life internet consumption. Frequently visiting on social media platforms also responsible for the development of social media addiction. This survey was done on the students of Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, India. In the survey 200 students participated from School of Education and School of Law & Governance. Among the participants 41% were female and 59% were male. Most of them were Facebook and WhatsApp users. After going through the research, it was found that among the participants most of them were addicted to social media. Most of the participants didn't have addiction to social media. Social Media Addiction was not significantly differing on the basis of gender, but male students were more addicted to social media. Due to expansion of Internet availability, rural students were more addicted in comparison to urban students. Overall, student studying under School of Education were more addicted.
... This study aims to develop a different integrated perspective by evaluating the correlation between various variables and problematic social media usage. However, it was identified that problematic social media usage is limited to the addiction of specific social media tools, such as Facebook addiction (Ryan et al. 2014), addiction to social network sites (Griffiths et al. 2014, p 120), Twitter addiction (Saaid et al. 2014) and microblogging addiction (Wang et al. 2015). Along with this, social media is rapidly changing due to new platforms, tools, and new characteristics that are added day by day (Van den Eijnden et al. 2016). ...
Depending on technological developments, the use of Internet and social media has become an important component of everyday life. This component showed perhaps its greatest effect on adolescents and their communication patterns. When the characteristics of adolescents’ developmental period and their developmental tasks are taken into account, it is noteworthy that they constitute a significant risk group in terms of problematic Internet use and problematic social media usage. In this framework, it is primarily necessary to examine adolescents’ problematic social media usage, since as said; they are seen as a risk group in terms of Internet usage. Secondly, problematic Internet usage behaviors need to be analyzed and their correlations with various variables need to be revealed. The objective of the present study is to examine the relationship between adolescents’ “problematic social media usage” and “duration of social media usage, social anxiety, self-regulation, academic procrastination, problematic Internet usage”. The study group consists of 451 adolescents, who are 8th grade middle school and 9th, 10th and 11th grade high school students. Relational screening model was used in this study. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Research results showed that there was a significant relationship between “problematic social media usage” and “social anxiety, self-regulation and academic procrastination”. However, neither the duration of social media usage nor the problematic use of the Internet showed a significant relationship with problematic social media usage. Research results were discussed within the context of “the effect of problematic social media usage on individuals themselves and their learning environments”. Suggestions were made accordingly.
... 21% felt agitated without social network usage while 27% agreed they were addicted to social networking. Saaid et al., 2014 have studied Twitter addiction among undergraduate university students. Of the 100 responses they obtained, 34% were heavy users of Twitter who tweeted 5 to 10 tweets per day. ...
The massive growth of social media has led to the global concern of social media addiction, which affects a large portion of society. Addicts of social media can be identified using a variety of parameters including conflict, mood swings, behavioral changes and conflict. Researchers in previous literature have approached a variety of methods to identify and curb the problem of social media addiction. In addition to social and cultural aspects, social media addiction like any other type of addiction is also governed by personal lifestyle and health habits. This type of addiction has been classified as a type of behavioral addiction which stems mostly from problems in personal and social life. Several therapies and tactics have been proposed to reduce the level of addiction. In this paper, a comprehensive review of research carried out in social media addiction has been provided.
... However, only one internet-related disorder-Internet Gaming Disorder-was included in Section 3 of the DSM-5. Another problem is that various synonyms of problematic social media use exist in the literature with different diagnostic suggestions including (among others) Facebook dependence [26], Facebook addiction [10], social networking addiction [27], Twitter addiction [28], social media addiction [11], and Social Media Disorder [29]. ...
Despite social media use being one of the most popular activities among adolescents, prevalence estimates among teenage samples of social media (problematic) use are lacking in the field. The present study surveyed a nationally representative Hungarian sample comprising 5,961 adolescents as part of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD). Using the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) and based on latent profile analysis, 4.5% of the adolescents belonged to the at-risk group, and reported low self-esteem, high level of depression symptoms, and elevated social media use. Results also demonstrated that BSMAS has appropriate psychometric properties. It is concluded that adolescents at-risk of problematic social media use should be targeted by school-based prevention and intervention programs.
... Griffiths, 2005, Lemmens, Valkenburg, & Peter, 2009Lemmens, Valkenburg, & Gentile, 2015;Van Rooij, Schoenmakers, Van den Eijnden, Vermulst, & Van de Mheen, 2010), no validated instruments exist measuring social media addiction. Instead, the field of social media addiction is characterized by an abundance of measurement instruments tapping into particular forms of compulsive social media use, such as Facebook addiction (Ryan et al., 2014), addiction to social network sites (Griffiths, Kuss, & Demetrovics, 2014), Twitter addiction (Saaid, Al-Rashid, & Abdullah, 2014), and microblogging dependence (Wang, Lee, & Hua, 2015). ...
There is growing evidence that social media addiction is an evolving problem, particularly among adolescents. However, the absence of an instrument measuring social media addiction hinders further development of the research field. The present study, therefore, aimed to test the reliability and validity of a short and easy to administer Social Media Disorder (SMD) Scale that contains a clear diagnostic cut-off point to distinguish between disordered (i.e. addicted) and high-engaging non-disordered social media users.
Purpose
Despite the widespread studies on the attitudes about OA, there exists little comparative evidence about the opinions of author and non-author parties at a global level in a social context. To bridge the gap, this study first investigated the opinions of the users who posted at least one tweet about OA in 2019. Then, it zoomed in to explore the views of the OA-interested tweeters, i.e. the users who have posted five or more tweets about OA.
Design/methodology/approach
Using a content analysis method, with an opinion-mining approach, this study examined a sample of 9,268 OA-related tweets posted by 5,227 tweeters in 2019. The sentiments were analyzed using SentiStrength. A threshold of at least five tweets was set to identify the OA-interested tweeters.
Findings
Academics and scholars, library and information professionals, and journals and publishers were the main OA-interested tweeters, implying that OA debates have not been widely propagated from its traditional audience to the general public. Despite an overall positive attitude, the tweeters showed negative perspectives about the gold and hybrid models, validity and quality, and costs and funds. The negativity depended on the OA features tweeted, the tweeters' occupations and gender, as well as the trends.
Research limitations/implications
The low societal impact of the OA debates calls for solutions to attract the public's attention and to exploit their potential to achieve the OA ideals. The OA stakeholders' divergence necessitates finding solutions to remedy the pitfalls. It also underlines the need for scrutiny into social layers when studying society's opinions and behaviors in a social network.
Originality/value
This is the first study in estimating the extent of the societal impact of OA debates, comparing the social OA stakeholders' opinions and their dependence on the OA features tweeted, the tweeter roles and gender and the tweet trending status.
Peer review
The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-09-2022-0502
Online activity has become increasingly prevalent worldwide, raising concerns about potential online behavioral addictions (e.g., problematic social media use, disordered online gambling, internet gaming disorder, and problematic internet use in general). The aim of this study was to conduct a longitudinal network analysis of symptoms associated with online behavioral addictions to examine their interrelations and potential differences across one’s biologically assigned gender (i.e., male, female). An online community sample of 462 adult participants (28.5% women, 69.5% men) completed self-rating questionnaires across two time-points one year apart. Participants’ responses were assessed with Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator regularized partial correlations (EBICglasso) and invariance methods. Gender differences were observed, with online gaming symptoms showing higher centrality in men and disordered social media use in women. Additionally, disordered gaming and internet use symptoms were highly influential, followed by online gambling, and social media use. Longitudinal differences were observed across genders, suggesting their different vulnerability to problematic behaviors associated with online activities. Additionally, mood modification associated with disordered internet use and impairment due to disordered gaming were highly influential in longitudinal measures, increasing the likelihood of developing coexisting or persistent symptoms of internet use disorders over time. Conclusions and implications are addressed considering the emerging literature.
The study was conducted to ascertain the influence of social media addiction on time management skills of university students in Uyo Senatorial District. The population of the study comprised all the second year 2018/2019 students in the University of Uyo. This consisted of a total of 5854 students. The simple random sampling technique was used to select 650 students from the 13 Faculties in the University of Uyo. Two instruments - Social Media Addiction Scale and Time Management Inventory - were adopted for the study and piloted on 80 year two students in the institution. The pilot test yielded a Chronbach alpha reliability coefficient of .78 which was deemed appropriate for the study. The data generated were analyzed using Mean and Standard deviation, while the hypotheses formulated were tested using the t-test statistics. The findings revealed that Facebook and Twitter addiction had significant influence on students’ time management skills. Instagram addiction, however, was not found to have significant influence on students’ time management skills. The recommendations made were that social networking sites should develop features that would help integrate learning contents into social media platforms and that virtual learning should be explored to enhance student engagement, among others.
The study was conducted to ascertain the influence of social media addiction on time management skills of university students in Uyo Senatorial District. The population of the study comprised all the second year 2018/2019 students in the University of Uyo. This consisted of a total of 5854 students. The simple random sampling technique was used to select 650 students from the 13 Faculties in the University of Uyo. Two instruments - Social Media Addiction Scale and Time Management Inventory - were adopted for the study and piloted on 80 year two students in the institution. The pilot test yielded a Chronbach alpha reliability coefficient of .78 which was deemed appropriate for the study. The data generated were analyzed using Mean and Standard deviation, while the hypotheses formulated were tested using the t-test statistics. The findings revealed that Facebook and Twitter addiction had significant influence on students’ time management skills. Instagram addiction, however, was not found to have significant influence on students’ time management skills. The recommendations made were that social networking sites should develop features that would help integrate learning contents into social media platforms and that virtual learning should be explored to enhance student engagement, among others.
The need of an individual for news is greater than ever in the modern world, where there is a
continuous stream of information and news. The widespread use of mobile devices to satisfy this
need, the access to the Social Media by means of mobile devices upon the increases in mobile use
and possibilities, the formation of clusters in the new media by users accordingly and the fact that the
media organizations carried news to the Social Media in order to include the clustered users in their
masses of viewers/readers created convergence between the news media and the Social Media. In
this context, some 477 respondents were surveyed by employing the method of random sampling in
September 2015 in order to reveal what the tendencies of users towards news sharing on Twitter
were, whether the means of mass media had any convergence effect on the sharing of news content,
and which demographic elements were effective on news sharing on Twitter and its convergence with
the means of mass media. In the research, it was concluded that the university students preferred the
Social Media also in order to acquire news, that the media features of Twitter positively affected news
sharing owing to its unique and characteristic structure, that the users tended to share the agenda and
political news on Twitter by either posting original current tweets or retweeting, that there was an
increase in the frequency of using independent news (independent news sites and blogs) sources as
they attached importance to tweeting or retweeting the accurate news, and that this turned Twitter into
an alternative news center rather than a social network. Regarding Twitter news convergence with the
means of mass media, it turned out that the convergence of magazines and radio with Twitter was not
as strong as that of television and newspapers. Finally, it was discovered that the ages and
employment statuses of the respondents were effective demographic elements with respect to
tweeting news on Twitter, whereas the financial income condition, which made it possible to access
the media, was the effective demographic element in the context of Twitter news convergence with the
means of mass media.
"He can read my writing but he sho can't read my mind."-Zora Neale HurstonTwitter's combination of brevity, multi-platform access, and feedback mechanisms has enabled it to gain mindshare far out of proportion to its actual user base, including an extraordinary number of Black users. How best to understand Twitter's reception and uptake by Black Americans, who surprisingly comprise over a quarter of all U.S. Twitter users? This article approaches Twitter from two perspectives: an analysis of the interface and associated practices alongside critical discourse analyses of online discussions of Twitter's utility and audience. This dual analysis employs critical race and technocultural theory to understand how mainstream online authors (out-group) and Black online authors (in-group) articulate Twitter as a racial artifact employing technocultural practices. Initial findings indicate that Twitter's feature set and multi-platform presence play major roles in mediating cultural performances by Twitter users. These same features also, depending upon the racial affiliation of the discussant, mediate how those cultural performances are understood: for example, Twitter was seen as a venue for civic activism (or public sphere) or as an active facilitator of deficit-based Black cultural stereotypes. Of particular interest are the complex reactions offered by minority and mainstream commenters on the "appropriateness" of Twitter as a Black cultural outlet.
This qualitative case study examined Twitter use by undergraduate and graduate students in three classes. Previous studies have shown that while some faculty use Twitter, few are incorporating it into classes despite many recommendations for such use. This study examined how students perceived Twitter as a classroom tool. As an optional activity, many started with Twitter but fewer continued through the semester. The study reports on content and counts of tweets as well as student self-reports on usage and interest. The researchers found students enjoyed being consumers of tweets but seldom retweeted or replied. Incorporating Twitter in courses will require careful consideration of scaffolding, modeling, privacy and course design. Questions remain as to whether the informal social focus of Twitter may overwhelm attempts to use it in more structured educational settings.
Herein, we present data from two studies of Twitter usage in different postsecondary courses with the goal of analyzing the relationships surrounding student engagement and collaboration as they intersect learning outcomes. Study 1 was conducted with 125 students taking a first-year seminar course, half of who were required to use Twitter while the other half used Ning. Study 2 was conducted with 135 students taking a large lecture general education course where Twitter participation was voluntary. Faculty in Study 1 engaged with students on Twitter in activities based on an a priori theoretical model, while faculty in Study 2 only engaged students sporadically on the platform. Qualitative analyses of tweets and quantitative outcomes show that faculty participation on the platform, integration of Twitter into the course based on a theoretically driven pedagogical model and requiring students to use Twitter are essential components of improved outcomes.
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Despite the widespread use of social media by students and its increased use by instructors, very little empirical evidence is available concerning the impact of social media use on student learning and engagement. This paper describes our semester-long experimental study to determine if using Twitter – the microblogging and social networking platform most amenable to ongoing, public dialogue – for educationally relevant purposes can impact college student engagement and grades. A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre-health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co-curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement. To assess differences in engagement and grades, we used mixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, with class sections nested within treatment groups. We also conducted content analyses of samples of Twitter exchanges. The ANOVA results showed that the experimental group had a significantly greater increase in engagement than the control group, as well as higher semester grade point averages. Analyses of Twitter communications showed that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process in ways that transcended traditional classroom activities. This study provides experimental evidence that Twitter can be used as an educational tool to help engage students and to mobilize faculty into a more active and participatory role.
This paper offers a descriptive account of Twitter (a micro-blogging service) across four high profile, mass convergence events—two emergency and two national security. We statistically examine how Twitter is being used surrounding these events, and compare and contrast how that behavior is different from more general Twitter use. Our findings suggest that Twitter messages sent during these types of events contain more displays of information broadcasting and brokerage, and we observe that general Twitter use seems to have evolved over time to offer more of an information-sharing purpose. We also provide preliminary evidence that Twitter users who join during and in apparent relation to a mass convergence or emergency event are more likely to become long-term adopters of the technology.
The intricate legal framework governing the admission of out-of-court statements in American trials is premised on increasingly outdated communication norms. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the hearsay exception for “present sense impressions.” Changing communication practices typified by interactions on social media web sites like Facebook and Twitter herald the arrival of a previously uncontemplated – and uniquely unreliable – breed of present sense impressions. This Article contends that the indiscriminate admission of these electronic present sense impressions (e-PSIs) is both normatively undesirable and inconsistent with the traditional rationale for the present sense impression exception. It proposes a reform to the exception that would exclude unreliable e-PSIs while simultaneously realigning the modern rule with its historical rationale. In so doing, the Article sounds an early warning to courts and legislators regarding similar challenges on the horizon, as modern communication norms continue to evolve beyond the contemplation of the drafters of the hearsay rules.
User interaction in social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, is increasingly becoming a source of useful information on daily events. The online monitoring of short messages posted in such networks often provides insight on the repercussions of events of several different natures, such as (in the recent past) the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the royal wedding in Britain and the death of Osama bin Laden. Studying the origins and the propagation of messages regarding such topics helps social scientists in their quest for improving the current understanding of human relationships and interactions. However, the actual location associated to a tweet or to a Facebook message can be rather uncertain. Some tweets are posted with an automatically determined location (from an IP address), or with a user‐informed location, both in text form, usually the name of a city. We observe that most Twitter users opt not to publish their location, and many do so in a cryptic way, mentioning non‐existing places or providing less specific place names (such as “Brazil”). In this article, we focus on the problem of enriching the location of tweets using alternative data, particularly the social relationships between Twitter users. Our strategy involves recursively expanding the network of locatable users using following‐follower relationships. Verification is achieved using cross‐validation techniques, in which the location of a fraction of the users with known locations is used to determine the location of the others, thus allowing us to compare the actual location to the inferred one and verify the quality of the estimation. With an estimate of the precision of the method, it can then be applied to locationless tweets. Our intention is to infer the location of as many users as possible, in order to increase the number of tweets that can be used in spatial analyses of social phenomena. The article demonstrates the feasibility of our approach using a dataset comprising tweets that mention keywords related to dengue fever, increasing by 45% the number of locatable tweets.
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