Social Media - Science topic

Since the onset of COVID-19, gender violence has significantly increased, affecting the lives of cis and trans girls and women due to the lack of visibility and overall normalization established through several patriarchal patterns in society. Maven Road analyzed the 8.6M million social media mentions on the topic that occurred in the US since Marc...

Media tone and content are known to affect the behavior, perceptions, and messaging strategies of political elites – in no small part, due to the perceived persuasive and agenda setting power of the media. In this entry, we survey the extant research on media effects on political elites in democracies, focusing on its effects on elected representat...

This exploratory article analyzes the contemporary trend in the music and event industry of organizing and filming electronic dance music (EDM) events at tourist destinations. These videos featuring DJ sets in attractive locations, referred to as destination DJ videos (DDJVs), accumulate a substantial number of views on social media platforms, prim...

Companies increasingly use social media influencers to engage with consumers and to promote their products. However, despite growing research interest in these parasocial relationships, the nature of parasocial engagement has not yet been comprehensively conceptualized. This study integrated previous studies within a para-social engagement framewor...

In a social-media context, brands need to understand how to frame their messages, so that a topic can be quickly recognized, promoting higher levels of user engagement. However, knowledge about the link between content type and its engagement is not sufficiently studied. We first explore hotel Firm-Generated Content (FGC) and its inherent themes us...

One of the traditional problems in survey sampling is to estimate the population parameter like mean vari ance etc. This article investigates the mathematical derivations and application of neutrosophic statistics to address the challenges posed by imprecise, indeterminacies or ambiguous data, such as daily stock prices, weather forecast, social me...

Theodor W. Adorno was one of the twentieth century's most potent and influential European thinkers, whose impact is felt across the humanities and social sciences. However, Adorno's thought has been almost entirely absent from the business ethics conversation. This chapter explores the relevance of Adorno's thought for business ethics that has emer...

This entry provides an overview of the knowledge gap research published between 1966 and 2022. It reviews frequently studied explanations for the occurrence of gaps in political knowledge and discusses their implications for democracies. Surveying available comprehensive reviews and picking up on recent empirical findings, one focus of the entry li...

As street protest actions seek to kickstart political debate, in this entry we shed light on the rhetorical responsiveness of politicians to protest. First, we highlight why the rhetorical responsiveness of politicians matters for protesters and politicians and we stress the mediating role of the traditional and social media arena therein. Second,...

Mediatization refers to a societal transformation wherein mass media increasingly influence and shape other societal spheres, such as the political sphere. Central to mediatization is the concept of media logic(s), which relates to specific criteria in the selection, production, and distribution of news. Mediatization of politics not only suggests...

Sentiment analysis of user-generated content on social media sites reveals important information about public attitudes toward emerging technologies. Researchers face challenges in understanding these impressions, ranging from cursory evaluations to in-depth analyses. Analyzing detailed, long-form reviews exacerbates the difficulty of achieving acc...

As social media became more and more popular around the globe in late 2010, new theories were developed to theorize their effects on political activism and the ways through which social movements had been transformed. Connective action is a theoretical concept offered to understand the transformation of political activism in the age of digital medi...

Public interest in nature can be promoted through social media by assessing the importance of a species to people and identifying new emblems appealing to conservationists. We aimed to assess the public interest in cultural ecosystem services in the Caatinga (seasonal dry forest). Ecosystem services were categorized on approximately 1500 photograph...

Political activities on social media are subject both to the constraints and potentials of the functionalities, structures and operating systems of such platforms. Increasingly, these constraints and potentials are studied with the concept of affordances. Often, affordances are confused with features of technologies and with the effects of using th...

Este artigo teve como objetivo identificar a influência das redes sociais na conformação do comportamento alimentar e suas consequências na vida de mulheres adultas, além de avaliar a percepção destas mulheres em relação à busca por nutricionistas, comparando-a com a de influenciadores nas redes sociais. A metodologia adotada foi uma abordagem obse...

Este artigo teve como objetivo identificar a influência das redes sociais na conformação do comportamento alimentar e suas consequências na vida de mulheres adultas, além de avaliar a percepção destas mulheres em relação à busca por nutricionistas, comparando-a com a de influenciadores nas redes sociais. A metodologia adotada foi uma abordagem obse...

Immerse yourself in the groundbreaking exploration of diversity and representation in music videos with Audiovisual Alterity. This new research delves into the portrayal of marginalized and subaltern groups across a rich tapestry of genres of popular music, tracing the evolution of inclusivity and disenfranchisement in music videos from the 1950s t...

Introducción/Objetivo: Las 4Fs del marketing digital -flujo, funcionalidad, feedback y fidelización-hacen la comunicación atractiva y efectiva en los recursos digitales. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar las 4Fs del marketing digital en una empresa hotelera del sector ecoturístico en México, validando un modelo de medición y analizando el posi...

Symbols significantly shape online discourse and social media dynamics, yet their impact on algorithmic content recommendations is not well understood. This study investigates how social, cultural, and political symbols influence YouTube's recommendation system, using the 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Election as a case study. By categorizing videos...

La cyberculture est un univers en constante évolution où les avancées technologiques façonnent notre façon de vivre, de travailler et de communiquer. Dans ce sous-chapitre intitulé "L'Ère du Numérique : Plongez dans la Cyberculture", nous explorerons les différentes niches de cette culture numérique passionnante, notamment la réalité virtuelle, les...

The proliferation of deepfakes poses significant challenges to information integrity and societal trust. At the same time, advancements in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) complicate their detection. This study presents a scoping review of prevailing solutions and mitigation strategies to combat deepfake misinformation across three phases...

Social media play a crucial role in navigating crises such as pandemics, natural disasters, or other public emergencies. In this context, existing research has primarily focused on examining public social media (e.g., Twitter/X), which offered convenient and ethically acceptable access to digital trace data for analysis. So-called "dark social," th...

The spread of misinformation has become a pressing issue on social media platforms. Decentralised social media, which use open-source software and/or blockchain technology, are particularly prone to misinformation in the absence of a central platform authority. At the same time, the decentralisation of social media introduces new user-centric appro...

The study aims to investigate the impact of social media on Gen Z. Social media platforms provides various features and innovative updates and attracts all the age categories of Gen Z and people from different social and economic backgrounds. For this study, a quantitative research method was applied, and a sample group of 100 respondents were surv...

Keywords Abstract Digital marketing, Mental image Diving Red sea Coast Digital marketing employs a variety of techniques, including websites, search engines, social media platforms, mobile applications, booking platforms, and so on, all of which are critical for boosting public awareness of diving trips. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determ...

Every business is making an effort to sell their goods and services using various digital advertising platforms as the use of digital marketing continues to gain popularity and become more widespread. Personalization is a common practice in the service business, which caters its offerings to meet the specific requirements of individual consumers. I...

There is a growing need for an image encryption scheme, for huge amount of social media data or even the medical data to secure the privacy of the patients or the user. This study introduces a ground-breaking deep learning architecture named crypto generative adversarial networks (CryptoGAN), a novel architecture for generating cipher images. This...

This paper presents a machine learning-based (ML) approach for identifying fake news on web-based social media networks. Data was acquired from Facebook to develop the model which was used to identify Afan Oromo's false news. The system architecture uses algorithms, such as support vector machines (SVM), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), and convolutional...

Spreading fake news and false information on social media is very common and can be done effortlessly due to the huge number of users of each of the various social media platforms. Another reason for having such a speedy spread of fake news (which makes about 40% of the information published on social media platforms) is the inability of these plat...

The sharing of personally identifiable information (PII) through social media platforms poses known risks to children's online privacy and safety. While the risks of oversharing PII through a range of digital contexts are becoming better understood, limited research has documented the social media practices of educational institutions that have a f...

The use of immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR) on social media platforms has drastically increased in the past few years. As AR technologies focus on providing individual experiences, it becomes critical to understand how individual differences affect AR immersive experience. In this study, we draw on the Big-Five model to examine...

This study aimed to analyze the impact of branding activities on the organizational performance of Uganda Breweries, focusing on its effects on sales volume and profitability. Specifically, the research examined the roles of advertising spend, social media activity, product innovation, and sponsorship activities in driving the company's performance...

With there being so many compromises necessary to mainstream veganism in a deeply speciesist society, how has the scholar-activist community negotiated its commitment social justice for Nonhuman Animals? Giraud’s Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory examines these emerging conflicts at a historical point in which the cultural and political expan...

Information-sharing behavior constitutes one of the key elements for the success of online charitable crowdfunding (OCC) projects, but it has received relatively limited academic attention so far. From a relational perspective, this study proposed a conceptual model to better understand the relationship between consciousness of social face, two typ...

The proliferation of troll memes on social media platforms has become a pressing issue due to their potential to spread misinformation and incite conflict. Detecting troll memes is complex due to the intricate interplay between visual and textual elements. In this research, we propose MemesViTa, a novel multimodal fusion model that combines Vision...

This comprehensive review paper explores the diverse landscape of cryptocurrency forecasting, tracing its evolution from an alternative to traditional monetary systems to its significant growth in the global financial arena. It consolidates existing research by categorizing and analyzing 234 scholarly articles, organizing them into machine learning...

Instagram is a social media platform where people share photos, videos, and stories. But sometimes, users wonder if it's really safe, especially when they provide personal data for account verification or post private content. This study looks at how safe people feel when using Instagram. It uses surveys to understand what users think about how the...

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Radicalization and violent extremism endanger the security and stability of modern societies. In the present study, we aimed to improve our understanding of these phenomena by investigating the factors that determine individuals' support for radical action, with a particular focus on the role of identity bubbles on social media. A sample of 563 Eur...

Through this paper, we want to talk about social media (Umbrella of new media vs old media and Internet), although social media is not only impact in gold media also effected education method. Any corner of whole world who is not affected with social media as well as Internet. In the other terms is influence has become so widespread that every subj...

This collection captures the innovative spirit of today’s academics, researchers, and students—termed "Scrolling Scholars"—who actively engage with digital platforms to exchange ideas, stay current on scholarly trends, and challenge traditional learning methods. By blending the rigor of academic discourse with the immediacy of social media, these s...

Kurzfassung Der iranische Informationskrieg ist in den zurückliegenden Jahrzehnten allgegenwärtiger und komplexer geworden. Er besteht aus einer Kombination von Strategien, die die Kontrolle des digitalen Raums, der Medien und der Diaspora umfassen. Ziel ist es, Einflussoperationen zur Manipulation des globalen Narrativs und zur Begrenzung des Info...

Purpose-The goal of the research is to determine the perceived efficacy of brand boycotting campaigns by Turkish consumers, as well as the effects of social pressure on boycott intention, the mediating role of social media, and the moderating role of discount sensitivity on these effects. Theoretical framework-The research idea and model were dev...

This paper explores the psychological implications of social media usage in terms of mental health outcomes, focusing on its effect on thoughts, emotions, actions, and personal relationships. It is based on a survey conducted with 70 respondents that investigates both positive and negative outcomes associated with social media consumption. The resu...

Although there has been recent interest in the effects of exposure to online hate speech targeting ethnic minority groups, there are some underexplored areas. In a context dominated by debates over free and hateful speech across social media platforms, it has never been more pertinent to investigate whether exposure to Facebook content targeting Ro...

Internet memes, a form of expression that has come along with digital culture, define content that is usually spread through social media platforms and often contains humour. Memes, which online communities use to express their opinions, thoughts, positive or negative approaches, are a unique communication method of internet culture. Memes, especia...

This study investigates inherent tensions between social media participation and the ways of life in an Indigenous community and subsequent navigation approaches. Relying on an in‐depth qualitative study and the notion of two‐eyed seeing as a theoretical approach, the study focuses on the complex relationship between social media platform participa...

Background Negative body image and disordered eating are common among adolescents and young adults. The Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4-Revised (SATAQ-4R) captures the internalization of societal appearance ideals and perceived pressures from others but has not been validated in a Norwegian adolescent population. Methods...

This publication provides an exploratory overview of newly emerging digital drug markets as well as a critical discussion of criminal responsibility of platforms for hosting user-generated content under 47 U.S.C. § 230 in light of the newly enacted EU Digital Services Act.

هدفت الدراسة الحالية إلى التعرف على دور وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي على التنشئة الأسرية والقيم الاجتماعية لدى طلبة جامعة نزوى بسلطنة عمان. حيث تكونت عينة الدراسة من (333) طالبًا وطالبة من طلبة جامعة نزوى في جميع كلياتها الأربع ومن مختلف السنوات الدراسية. واستخدمت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة والإجابة عن أسئلتها تم بناء مقياس مك...

Small claim. Regulation 861/2007 (European Small Claims Procedure Regulation). Unfair term in terms of service agreement. Breach of contract through shadowbanning. Infringement on Articles 12 and 17 of Regulation 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act).

The rapid expansion of the Internet and social media has intensified the spread of health misinformation, posing significant risks, especially for older adults. This meta-analysis synthesizes evidence on the prevalence and interventions of health misinformation among older adults. Our findings reveal a high prevalence rate of 47% (95% CI [33%, 60%]...

Content marketing is the process of producing and disseminating unique content that both current and potential customers will find entertaining. Blog posts, infographics, videos, and virtually any other interesting and shareable format can be used for the content.To determine the type of content to engage on instagram towards fashion industry, fact...

The Report discusses the status of co-operations in the Western world and in a Globally. It compares shareholder corporations with co-operations and state owned corporations. It compares co-operations with other types of corporations like free market shareholder businesses and state owned corporations in different socio-economic contexts. It draws...

Small and medium-sized enterprises play an important role in the economic health of Sri Lanka. Concurrently, the contribution of tourism is vital for its socioeconomic and sociocultural development. There appears to be a vast opportunity for improving gross development product growth by strengthening the business performance of small and medium-siz...

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The integration of social media into the lives of college students has reshaped communication, social interaction, and self-expression. However, this increased digital presence has raised significant concerns about the privacy of these young individuals. This paper delves into the complex interplay between the fundamental right to privacy and the p...

The Jakarta Regional Head Election (Pilkada) 2024 is predicted to be one of the most exciting political events in Indonesia, with various parties striving to attract public attention through multiple communication channels. One platform that is increasingly popular in the context of political campaigns is TikTok, a short video-based social media kn...

Research on, "Sharia Banks in the Perception of the Community of Rantau Panjang Village, Lawang Wetan District" aims to look at the community's perception of Islamic banks and the factors that influence them. It is hoped that the results of this research will become a reference for Sharia Banks to determine strategies for their development. This re...

The relationship between social media use and mental health outcomes has become a pressing concern in the digital age. This study employs a secondary data analysis approach to explore the complex dynamics between online engagement and psychological well-being. A systematic review of ten selected research studies, published within the last decade, w...

As social media platforms continue to gain popularity, there is increasing interest in understanding how online interactions affect users' mental health and overall well-being. This study takes a novel approach by collecting and analyzing social media data to assess mental health comprehensively. By utilizing data from various platforms, we employe...

En la actualidad, el auge de las redes sociales como plataformas de interacción y promoción ha revolucionado las estrategias de marketing digital. En este contexto, las empresas, especialmente las emergentes, buscan posicionar su marca y captar clientes a través de una gestión estratégica de redes sociales. El presente trabajo analiza el impacto de...

The rapid advancements in technology have transformed various aspects of life, with social media platforms emerging as a significant outcome of this shift. These platforms have revolutionized global communication among individuals and organizations but have also introduced challenges, particularly in relation to privacy, as users increasingly share...

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an emerging technology that utilizes speech sounds to identify a speaker’s emotional state. Computational intelligence is receiving increasing attention from academics, health, and social media applications. This research was conducted to identify emotional states in verbal communication. We applied a publicly av...

The utilization of artificial intelligence techniques has garnered significant interest in recent research due to their pivotal role in enhancing the quality of educational offerings. This study investigated the impact of employing artificial intelligence techniques on improving the quality of educational services, as perceived by students enrolled...

User comments on social media have been recognized as a crucial factor in distinguishing between fake and real news, with many studies focusing on the textual content of user reactions. However, the interactions among agents in the comment sections for fake and real news have not been fully explored. In this study, we analyse a dataset comprising b...

This study aims to investigate various forms of online engagement in relation to feelings of loneliness among older men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explored which types of online engagement were associated with loneliness among older adults, with special attention to potential gender differences. We analyzed data from the 2020 Health...

Internet and social media have completely changed the way the companies interact and communicate with the consumers. In fact, the social media and internet have become the key drivers in public relations and new marketing platform. Across the world, more than three billion people have access to internet and use it to know about the launch of new pr...

This study examines water contamination issues using social media data (n = 420.7 k) to unveil the roles and patterns from the top 10 most influential users in their respective networks determined by their reply, retweet, and mention networks. Findings from RQ1 show diverse entities within this group, encompassing political figures, organizations,...

The proliferation of misinformation on social media, particularly through manipulated visual content, poses significant challenges. This study explores the role of visual media literacy in addressing these challenges, focusing on its application in educational settings in Jordan. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research integrates semi-stru...

Although social media provides a crucial platform for self-development in emerging adulthood, the link between online self-presentation and mental health outcomes remains unclear. Thus, the associations among real self, ideal self, different types of false self-presentations, and depressive symptoms were examined over time (T1–T3) in the present st...

This study aims to analyze how social media-based collaborative learning affects learning outcomes and student involvement in higher education in Odisha, India. Using a mixed-methods approach, 200 undergraduate students from four different colleges were selected randomly. Over the course of a semester, participants used well-known social media plat...

This research was conducted as an effort to solve the students’ problem related their cultural shock of Islamic values during face-to-face class after pandemic era caused of Covid 19. This study will investigate the formation of character house in Islamic faculty which provides distinctive Islamic values that are different from other institutions....

Mental health affects our daily lives, including our emotions, thoughts, relationships, and actions. Anxiety and depression can disrupt eating, sleeping, and attention. Stigma worsens these issues by discouraging people from seeking help. Depression is a widespread condition globally, with significant social and economic consequences. Early and acc...

Background: TikTok has rapidly become one of the most extensively downloaded and used social media platforms worldwide. Our focus on emergency medicine (EM)-related content on TikTok is to identify what specific video characteristics result in higher degrees of audience engagement, defined in this study as a total of video likes, comments, and shares...

The changes brought about by digital transformation have the potential to reconfigure marketing practices. One of the essential elements of this new dynamic imposed by technology is the field of customer relationships, where brands and consumers interact directly through online platforms. The objective of this study is to identify the crisis manage...

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INTRODUÇÃO: Este estudo investigou como adolescentes da Região Metropolitana Salvador percebem as repercussões do uso de redes sociais em sua saúde mental. MÉTODO: Utilizou-se um desenho qualitativo, foram entrevistados 20 adolescentes, de 14 a 17 anos, sobre suas experiências com redes sociais como Facebook, Instagram e TikTok. RESULTADOS E DISCUS...

In the era of a knowledge society, social media have become tools for exchanging knowledge among users. It has also become the means on which the public relies for learning. Therefore, the digital environment is considered a source for teaching and learning in the field of media education. Students can also use the digital environment to complete r...

The chapter examines the challenges and techniques for incorporating social media data into NVivo. NVivo allows three types of social media data to be used in the program: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube data. The chapter shows how this data can be imported into the program using the add-on NCapture. This tool facilitates the import to either textual...

Ambiguous words are often found in modern digital communications. Lexical ambiguity challenges traditional Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) methods, due to limited data. Consequently, the efficiency of translation, information retrieval, and question-answering systems is hindered by these limitations. This study investigates the use of Large Languag...