Top Research Papers on Social Media

In the January issue of Fisheries, in this column I referenced results from a recent survey of our membership. Guess what? Many in our membership are eager to engage in social media but do not know...

A clear view or perception of the use various social website and their impact on the authors' daily life is got to give the audience more ideas which is about the social.

This series of short articles will offer step-by-step guides on how to join the social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn using appropriate privacy settings and will provide suggestions on how-to-use the platforms.

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An array of Egyptian and Tunisian lifeworlds in 2016

Social media are defined as applications and websites that allow users to share content, usually of their own making. Social media users include individuals and organizations across a broad range of social strata. Key social work organizations, such as the National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Social Work Boards, have begun noting the proliferation of social media usage in education and practice and have begun developing guidelines to govern their use. The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, in their Grand Challenges of Social Work initiative, highlighte...

This chapter focuses on the impact that using social media instead of face-to-face interaction has on the users' health, specifically mental health.

This chapter discusses how social media and networking can be employed to your advantage and some possible traps to avoid.

Professional organizations, including the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc., would be remiss to overlook the potential of social media.

Tracing a history of mediated life from nineteenth-century barricades to twenty-first century occupations, Sven Lütticken analyses the problematics and possibilities of contemporary social assemblage.

This chapter is devoted precisely to the constraints that social media impose upon traditional pragmatic research.

In assessing the application of social media on the teaching of business communication, this article looks at MBA student use of blogs, online photo database contributions, and video contributions to YouTube channels. These assignments were part of their course activities, which included a 2-week study tour in China. The article looks at these activities within the context of the social constructivist view on learning in general. The student work provides evidence of the positive results that come from the use of social media, when viewed from the perspective of social constructivist theories ...

One of the important themes to be conveyed by this chapter was also a major theme of my most recent authored book (Colston, 2015) – the inherently social quality of language, especially figurative language.

This chapter presents guidelines regarding optimum utilization of social media, how it differs from traditional media, the specific categories such as content communities, micro blogging, collaborative websites, social networking sites, live casting, virtual game and social worlds, etc.

This chapter explains making use of the concepts such as virtual reality, multimedia and cloud computing with the data from social media in developing conceptual business models in the sectors of automobiles, textiles and software developing companies.

The active use of social media can potentially jeopardize the quality of romantic relationships. The present study contributes to the existing research body investigating the connection between social media use and relationship satisfaction, by focusing on the users' social media activity, their relationship visibility, relationship satisfaction and the different types of intimacy. We conducted a web-based data collection where participants (n = 418) completed various types of questionnaires, namely the Social Media Use Integration Scale (SMUIS) (Jenkins-Guarnieri, 2013), the Satisfaction With...

Ως κοινωνικό δίκτυο ορίζεται το άθροισμα των προσωπικών επαφών μέσω των οποίων το άτομο διατηρεί την κοινωνική του ταυτότητα, λαμβάνει συναισθηματική υποστήριξη, υλική ενίσχυση και συμμετοχή στις υπηρεσίες, έχει πρόσβαση στις πληροφορίες και δημιουργεί νέες κοινωνικές επαφές. Όπως γίνεται αντιληπτό από τον παραπάνω ορισμό μέσα από την κοινωνική δικτύωση ο άνθρωπος καλύπτει μια ισχυρή ανάγκη του, αυτή του συνεταιρίζεσθαι, δημιουργώντας δίκτυα με άλλους ανθρώπους και του παρέχεται η δυνατότητα να ανταλλάξει ιδέες, απόψεις, εμπειρίες και να εμπλουτίσει τις γνώσεις του.

Social media have transformed the way we think and interact with others. Inhibitions are often far lower online than offline, leading to a greater tendency toward incivility. One of the most visible changes to public discourse in the social media age has been the rise of call-out culture, a term used to describe the use of social media to build a wave of public indignation regarding behavior deemed transgressive. Social media can act both directly (e.g., through call-out campaigns) and indirectly (through behavior modification aimed at avoiding social media opprobrium) to shape what happens on...

The authors here explore the significant challenges posed, going forward, to health and nutrition communications, offering an enhanced response.

This study concludes that businesses were able to be successful offering discounts via a promotion on social media sites, such as Groupon and LivingSocial, as long as they follow some key steps in their strategy and prepare themselves for the positive and negative effects that they might experience.