Facebook Platform Research Articles

Where do you stand?: an exploration of perspectives toward feet, foot health, and footwear using innovative digital methods

BackgroundThe cost of losing foot health is significant to the person, healthcare systems, and economy, with diabetes related foot health issues alone costing over £1 billion annually in the UK. Yet many foot health problems are preventable through alternative health behaviour. It is therefore important to understand how feet, foot health and footwear are conceptualised to gain understanding about how these might influence foot health behaviour and inform health messages that seek to protect or improve foot health through altered health behaviour. This research seeks to explore attitudes and beliefs and identify phenomena that may act as barriers or motivators to the proactive self-management of foot health.MethodsPublic conversations involving 2,699 expressions related to feet, footwear or foot health on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram were extracted. Conversations on Facebook and Twitter were scraped with NVivo’s NCapture plugin whereby data is extracted and downloaded to NVivo. Extracted files were uploaded to the Big Content Machine (software developed at the University of Salford) which facilitated the search for keywords ‘foot’, ‘feet’, ‘footwear’, ‘shoe’, and ‘shoes’. Instagram was scraped by hand. Data was analysed using a Thematic Analysis approach.ResultsThree themes were identified; 1) connections and disconnections derived from social and cultural constructs, 2) phenomena beyond attitudes and beliefs that relate to symbolic representations and the impact when foot health is lost, and 3) phenomena relating to Social Media as a conduit for the exploration of attitudes and beliefs.ConclusionsThis novel research exemplifies complex and sometimes incongruous perspectives about feet including their value for what they facilitate, contrasted with negative feelings about the negative impact that can have aesthetically when feet work hard. Sometimes feet were devalued, with expressions of disgust, disconnection, and ridicule. The importance of contextual, social, and cultural phenomena with implications for optimising foot health messages. Knowledge gaps including factors related to children’s foot health and development, and how to treat foot health problems. The power of communities with shared experience to influence decisions, theories, and behaviour about foot health was also revealed. While people do talk about feet in some social contexts, it is not always in a way that promotes overt, positive foot health behaviour. Finally, this research demonstrates the benefit of exploring perspectives in uncontrived settings and illuminates the potential utility of social media (SoMe) platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as vehicles to promote foot health self-management behaviour that is responsive to the social and demographic variances of engagers who inhabit those spaces.

Predicting Violence-Induced Stress in an Arabic Social Media Forum

Social Media such as Facebook plays a substantial role in virtual communities by sharing ideas and ideologies among different populations over time. Social interaction analysis aids in defining people’s emotions and aids in assessing public attitudes, towards different issues such as violence against women and children. In this paper, we proposed an Arabic language prediction model to identify the issue of Violence-Induced Stress in social media. We searched for Arabic posts of many countries through Facebook application programming interface (API). We discovered that the stress state of a battered woman is usually related to her friend’s stress states on Facebook. We applied a large real database from Facebook platforms to analytically investigate the correlation of violence-induced stress states and the victim interactions on social media. We extracted a set of textual, spatial, and interaction attributes from various features. Therefore, we are proposing a hybrid model–an interaction graph model incorporated in a deep learning neural model to leverage post content and interaction data for violence-induced stress detection. Experiments depict that our proposed hybrid model can enhance the prediction performance by 10% in F1-measure. Also, considering the user interaction information can learn an interesting phenomenon, where, the sparse social interactions of violence-induced stress stressed victims is higher by around 15% percent non-battered users, signifying that the structure of the friends of such victims is less connected than non-stressed users.

Investigating the Impact of Facebook Advertising Features on Consumer Behavior

Many agencies have selected Facebook, one of the most popular social media platforms in Vietnam, as their primary communication and connection channel in their units due to its widespread usage and simplicity of use. Using social networks to advertise products could make people more likely to buy things. Nevertheless, there is still a need for more scholarly attention to understand the impact of social media usage on users' purchase intention, especially in Vietnam— a country with a significant number of social media users worldwide. Hence, this study aims to examine factors regarding social media advertising including informativeness, performance expectancy, perceived relevance, and interactivity that impact consumer buying intention through popular platforms in Vietnam such as Facebook. The authors utilized a set of established scales to measure the constructs under investigation. An online questionnaire with 22 items was designed and developed based on previous research. The survey specifically targeted Vietnamese shoppers who regularly engage in online activities through the social media platform Facebook. From the collected questionnaires, a data of 217 valid responses were utilized for the analysis using SPSS. The study revealed the indicators relevant to Facebook advertising of consumer purchase intention. Among them, two-way communication in the form of interactivity, one of the most common features of social networks plays a vital role in fostering purchase intention as its greatest effect on consumer purchase intention, followed by perceived relevance, performance expectancy, and informativeness. The current research extends consumer behavior literature in online shopping settings and consolidates further the importance of advertising value toward behavioral intention in the context of social media. The findings provide valuable insights for advertising companies to leverage Facebook media in their marketing and advertising endeavors such as providing users with the informative and relevant content, appealing appearance, as well as two-way interaction features so that they will be able to attract potentials consumers. Yet there were some limitations including the generalizability, the focus on a specific product category and the extension of other social media platforms which should be suggested in the future research.

Privatizing Copyright

Much has been written, and much is understood, about how and why digital platforms regulate free expression on the internet. Much less has been written— and even much less is understood—about how and why digital platforms regulate creative expression on the internet—expression that makes use of others’ copyrighted content. While § 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act regulates user-generated content incorporating copyrighted works, just as § 230 of the Communications Decency Act regulates other user speech on the internet, it is, in fact, rarely used by the largest internet platforms—Facebook and YouTube. Instead, as this Article details, creative speech on those platforms is governed by a series of highly confidential licensing agreements with large copyright holders. Yet despite the dominance of private contracting in ordering how millions of pieces of digital content are made and distributed on a daily basis, little is known, and far less has been written, on just what the new rules governing creative expression are. This is, in fact, by design: these license agreements contain strict confidentiality clauses that prohibit public disclosure of any and all of their contents. This Article, however, pieces together clues from publicly available court filings, news reports, and leaked documents. The picture it reveals is a world where the substantive law of copyright is being quietly rewritten. Agreements between digital platforms and rightsholders remove the First Amendment safeguard of fair use, insert a new moral right for works previously deemed ineligible for moral rights protection, and use other small provisions to influence and reshape administrative, common, and statutory copyright law. Further still, recent changes or lobbied-for changes to copyright’s public law seek to either enshrine the primacy of such private governance or altogether remove copyright rulemaking processes from government oversight, cementing the legitimacy of the new private governors. Changing copyright’s public law to enshrine the primacy of such private governance insulates the new rules of copyright from the democratic process, transforming public participation in, and public oversight of, the laws that shape our daily lives. Creative expression on the internet now finds itself at a curious precipice: there is a seeming glut of low-cost or free content, much of it created directly by and distributed to users—yet increasingly regulated by an opaque network of rules created by a select few private parties. An understanding of the internet’s democratizing potential for creativity is incomplete without a concomitant understanding of how the new private rules of copyright may shape, and harm, that creativity.

La traducción en la enseñanza virtual de las lenguas gabonesas

Translation in The E-learning of Gabonese Languages
 The definitions that revolve around language are as plural as the functions that are assigned to it. For some people, it is an instrument of communication. Other people see it as an instrument for analysing the world, as a personal and social identification. Considering the evolution of societies, the preponderant place of language in any development process is more and more indisputable. Gabon, a sub-Saharan African country, is multilingual. This multilingualism is characterised by a double linguistic heritage. On the one hand, it is made up of some fifty endogenous languages, also known as local languages. On the other hand, it is made up of a foreign language: French, a language received from colonial education and established throughout the country as the language of education, administration and official communication since its independence on 17 August 1960.
 However, the work of many Gabonese sociolinguists presents some worrying results. The sociolinguistic context in Gabon is today characterised by a proven glottophagy, as the French language has opacified the endogenous languages. This language of the colonising country is thus positioned like a dinosaur that swallows all the others with which it shares the Gabonese national territory. Numerous sociolinguists, Gabonese linguists and language teachers are tirelessly calling on the high authorities and the Gabonese population about the situation in Gabon. The promotion of these local Gabonese languages in training and education is the first solution, alongside intra-ethnic communication within the family unit. But today, the inaction of the public authorities regarding the introduction of these languages in the curricula has led to the creation of several virtual platforms dedicated to the teaching-learning of Gabonese local languages and cultures. These are taught by staff with a variety of profiles. In other words, the teaching of Gabonese endogeneity through virtual channels would no longer be the specific work of pedagogues or other actors in the world of education and the field of languages, but it becomes the business of any willing person. Looking at these virtual teaching-learning spaces, we can see that different courses are given through different didactic activities, such as translation. In this study, we focus on pedagogical translation in a virtual educational space. In other words, this article presents a qualitative analysis, in an exploratory approach, of the place and manifestation of translation in this process of teaching endogenous Gabonese knowledge through, specifically, the Langue 241 web page and its Facebook platform. 
 Translation is a pedagogical discipline whose contours are guided by interpretative and comparative theory. It is on the curriculum in formal and institutional foreign language classes through the tandem in french thème and version. We will examine here how it operates in this virtual setting in order to better appreciate the teachers and the courses offered by means of screenshots taken on mobile phones. In order to carry out this study, we interpret the reasons for the courses, the profile of the webmaster and analyse the programme offered and the results expected through it. In addition, we take a critical look at the translation activities carried out in order to better understand the transfer processes, the items studied and above all the learning context. As this is a translation aimed at the teaching-learning of Gabonese languages, i.e. African languages with a tone, a look is also taken at the transcriptions that are made and the alphabet used for this purpose.
 The results of the various analyses carried out make it possible to see whether the theme and version courses given are of a didactic relevance that truly enables users to learn their local Gabonese languages well, both orally and in writing.

Identification of the Preferences Signals of Facebook Algorithm in Prioritising Page Posts on Users’ Feeds

With an objective to deliver a relevant experience to its users, the social media platform Facebook employs a backend algorithm to select and identify the page posts, to further populate them on the user’s newsfeeds. The algorithm receives indications or signals from the user activities/actions on the platform w.r.t the posts uploaded/publicly communicated by the pages. In this article, the authors have studied the important user actions from the Facebook algorithm point of view through a systematic analysis of academic and industry-based literature to unearth the user action preferences of the secret and always-changing Facebook algorithm. Basis the findings, the authors have also suggested a conceptual model that drives higher user engagement for the pages. Results reveal that at the page level, ‘Follow’ and ‘Share’ are positive indicators for the algorithm, while ‘Unfollow’ and ‘Page Block’ are negative signals that impact a page’s visibility on the users’ newsfeed. At the post level, ‘Share’, ‘Comments’ and ‘Reactions’ are the positive signals of rankings whereas ‘Unfollow’, ‘Hide’ and ‘Snooze’ are a negative set of user actions. The findings of this article are extremely vital for the millions of Facebook page owners/marketers to optimise the overall results.

Effectiveness of E-Marketing Platforms and Consumer Buying Behaviour of Akwa Ibom State University Students Towards Selected Online Products

This study examined the effectiveness of e-marketing Platforms and buying behaviour of students at Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) towards selected online products. It was carried out based on a paradigm shift in product positioning from conventional ways to online platforms. The study objectives were to determine the relationships between independent variables (Facebook usage, Instagram usage, and Twitter usage) and the buying behaviour of AKSU students. It employed a survey research technique to collect data from a sample of 384 to draw inferences on the total population of 9254 students. The data were collected through an online Microsoft link, and descriptive data were analyzed using frequency tables and simple percentages. The regression analysis in (SPSS Version 21) was used to test the hypotheses. Findings from the results revealed that all three null hypotheses were rejected. This implies that there is a significant relationship between Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter usage and buying behaviour of AKSU students. The authors recommended that; marketers on the Facebook platform should create Facebook groups in order to find a niche within their customers’ interests and also to give them a space to connect. Furthermore, marketers on the Instagram platform should endeavour to apply an attractive design on their advertised product with a simple and understandable description of the product in order to attract positive buying behavior among students. Finally, the study recommends marketers using the Twitter platform should endeavor to retweet their tweets at least every day in order to keep their online target audience updated with their products related tweets.

Influence of social media in the Practice of Journalism in Bangladesh

In the rapidly changing global arena, technological advancement and the adaptation of changing patterns of technology the growing trend in all areas, including journalism. The increasing use of social media in journalism due to technological advancement has been remarkably noticeable worldwide, including in Bangladesh in recent years. With the delicate touch of social media, sourcing and disseminating information have been easier. Social media has been considered one of the blessings of journalism to disseminate and share news events and get immediate feedback from the audience. As Facebook is the most popular social media among journalists in Bangladesh, the study took Facebook as the central unit of the research. The research's main objective is to determine how journalists in Bangladesh use Facebook in their regular journalism practices. The study is a qualitative study based on quantitative data. In the regular journalism practice, the study inquiries different uses of Facebook by Journalists in Bangladesh based on survey data. It has been found that to disseminate reports published or broadcasted in different newspapers and TV channels; journalists mainly use the Facebook platform. The study revealed that the reports not published or broadcasted in mainstream media are getting space in social media. The study also discovered that to get immediate feedback from the audience, the journalists in Bangladesh considered Facebook one of the most powerful tools. Moreover, to develop sources and get clues for news, Facebook occasionally assists journalists significantly. Furthermore, a significant finding is that ethical practice is in danger when practicing journalism on Facebook. Based on the above findings, the study concluded that for journalists in Bangladesh, social media would be an effective alternative to sharing news and getting immediate feedback from the audience.

COVID-19 Infodemic: A study on the Fragile Five countries.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many rumors and conspiracy theories spread in various media outlets. The purpose of this study is to reveal the nature of the misinformation detected by fact check platforms that spread in the Fragile Five countries. To determine the themes of misinformation about COVID-19 and from which media it is disseminated are a possible way to prevent it. The data of the study were obtained from International Fact-checking Network's CoronaVirusFacts database. One thousand seven hundred thirty-four piece of misinformation collected by web scraping method during the period January 24, 2020 to November 14, 2020 and analyzed with MAXQDA Analytics Pro 2020. As a result of the research, it was found that rumors (96.3%) spread more in the Fragile Five countries than conspiracy theories (3.7%). While the main theme of the rumors is about illness (26.9%) and diagnosis-treatment (25%), conspiracy theories are mostly related to the cause of the disease (68.8%). 53.06% of misinformation was spread through the Facebook platform. 15.32% on Twitter; 13.34% on WhatsApp. Misinformation has been heavily false (85.12%) in both rumor and conspiracy theories. In the second place, misleading (10.09%) news spread.

Pelatihan Penyusunan Strategi Kampanye Politik Untuk Meningkatkan Elektabilitas Kader Partai Politik Perempuan di Provinsi Aceh

The problem of the low level of women's political representation in the regional legislature has become a serious concern for the community and various interest groups in Aceh Province. Identification of this problem explains that this condition is caused by the low skills of female political cadres in designing appropriate and efficient political campaign strategies. The use of social media through the platforms Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube is an important aspect in designing a political communication strategy to increase the electability of women's political party cadres ahead of regional legislative elections. This training aims to increase the electability of female political party cadres by utilizing social media as a political campaign strategy to potential voters in the constituency. This training uses a conceptual approach, theory and practice. The results of this training show that the participants have gained knowledge and technical skills in designing political campaign strategies through social media which are expected to increase their electability to compete in the political contestation of the upcoming legislative elections.

The virus of polarization: online debates about Covid-19 in Germany

ABSTRACT To what extent do online debates display features of political polarization and in how far does polarization pose a problem for democracy? We zoom in on affective polarization: the formation of societal groups with hostile feelings towards each other, arguing that affective polarization is particularly problematic for democracy if it features elements of political intolerance, which undermines key tenets of even the most conflict-prone theories of democracy. While affective polarization has been on the rise in several countries, Germany has been considered to be a country with low, and even declining levels of affective polarization. But does this still hold true during the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw a rapid rise in conspiracy theories? Based on a qualitative discourse analysis of online debates about Covid-19 on the Facebook platforms of a mainstream and a non-mainstream German media outlet, we find strong traces of affective polarization on both platforms, involving clear indications of political intolerance. Our findings suggest that the democratic discourse is threatened by the nature of online debates about Covid-19, and it is threatened not only by anti-rationalist conspiracists at the ideological extremes but also by the intolerance of more moderate rationalists at the centre of the political spectrum.

Factors Associated with Early Sexual Activity in Adolescents Residing in an Urban Area of Northeastern Mexico Who Use WhatsApp or Facebook.

Early sexual activity has been associated with unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. In recent decades, the prevalence of early sexual activity and social media use has increased. However, the relationship between these variables has been little studied. Consequently, we examined the relationships of some factors present in the family and personal environment with early sexual activity in adolescents who use and do not use the WhatsApp and Facebook platforms. Through a cross-sectional study, data from 1328 adolescents aged 13 to 19years were analyzed. Data collection was carried out using a self-administered questionnaire. Of the total participants, 35.7% reported early sexual activity, and 37.7% reported using social networks such as WhatsApp and Facebook. The mean age of onset of sexual activity was 15.59 ± 1.56years. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed significant associations of not studying (adjusted OR 4.70; CI 95% 1.31-16.78), consuming alcohol (adjusted OR 3.71; CI 95% 2.44-5.65) and having parents who consumed alcoholic beverages in the home (adjusted OR 1.48; 95% CI 1.03-2.12) with ESA. In the family and personal environment, some factors favored early sexual activity in young people who used the WhatsApp and Facebook applications. This information should be used by authorities in the health and education sectors to strengthen preventive programs targeting health risk habits and behaviors in adolescents.

Museums and communicating climate change-related issues on Facebook platforms

PurposeThis research examines the ways in which museums have utilised their Facebook platforms to communicate about climate and environmental-related challenges. The aim is to offer a snapshot of the phenomenon of museums as contributors to communicating climate-related topics and climate change education.Design/methodology/approachA content analysis of a purposeful sample of 10 museums’ Facebook postings was conducted. The study examines the themes and topics concerning climate issues that museums have posted and communicated about, the nature of the communication and an examination of responses from the audience.FindingsThis research reveals that not all museums in the study sample have communicated the different research-informed causes or contributors to climate challenges confronting societies today. There is also very little evidence of dialogic engagement with audience and the public-at-large. Most communication is still one-way focussing on the relaying of information.Originality/valueThis research highlights the roles of cultural heritage institutions such as museums in communicating climate change-related topics and the need to move towards a more dialogic mode of engagement with their audience. Museums have a role in serving as a trusted and inspirational space for public debates and community empowerment for dealing with climate challenges.

The Use of 2 e-Learning Modalities for Diabetes Education Using Facebook in 2 Cities of Argentina During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the confinement that was implemented in Argentina generated a need to implement innovative tools for the strengthening of diabetes care. Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is a core element of diabetes care; however, because of COVID-19 restrictions, in-person diabetes educational activities were suspended. Social networks have played an instrumental role in this context to provide DSME in 2 cities of Argentina and help persons with diabetes in their daily self-management. The aim of this study is to evaluate 2 diabetes education modalities (synchronous and asynchronous) using the social media platform Facebook through the content of posts on diabetes educational sessions in 2 cities of Argentina during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this qualitative study, we explored 2 modalities of e-learning (synchronous and asynchronous) for diabetes education that used the Facebook pages of public health institutions in Chaco and La Rioja, Argentina, in the context of confinement. Social media metrics and the content of the messages posted by users were analyzed. A total of 332 messages were analyzed. We found that in the asynchronous modality, there was a higher number of visualizations, while in the synchronous modality, there were more posts and interactions between educators and users. We also observed that the number of views increased when primary care clinics were incorporated as disseminators, sharing educational videos from the sessions via social media. Positive aspects were observed in the posts, consisting of messages of thanks and, to a lesser extent, reaffirmations, reflections or personal experiences, and consultations related to the subject treated. Another relevant finding was that the educator/moderator role had a greater presence in the synchronous modality, where posts were based on motivation for participation, help to resolve connectivity problems, and answers to specific user queries. Our findings show positive contributions of an educational intervention for diabetes care using the social media platform Facebook in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although each modality (synchronous vs asynchronous) could have differential and particular advantages, we believe that these strategies have potential to be replicated and adapted to other contexts. However, more documented experiences are needed to explore their sustainability and long-term impact from the users' perspective.

People want to see people? Personalization on Facebook as a tool for corporate communications

PurposeSocial networks were created to connect with friends. Therefore, communication in social networks allows addressing individual contacts of each user and is often rather private by nature. Organizations can use this to communicate frequently and personally with their stakeholders. Therefore, this study investigates how organizations use personalization in their social media communication.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a quantitative content analysis of Facebook posts from ten large companies (N = 500). The posts were analyzed regarding the sub dimensions of personalization, individualization and privatization, as well as type of post, tonality, emotions, user reactions and topics.FindingsCompanies at least partially personalize their communication on Facebook. Overall, 28% of all posts were personalized. Personalized posts were almost always positive regarding tonality and mostly positive regarding emotions. While the personalized posts in this study have fewer user reactions than non-personalized posts, they still have a rather high absolute number of reactions. Regarding personal characteristics, results show that professional competence and appearance were mainly addressed. Concerning privatization, only very few posts showed an individual in a private setting.Originality/valueThe present work gives an overview of how personalized posts differ from non-personalized posts and looks at depicted individuals as well as the use of private elements. By applying the conceptualization of Van Aelst et al. (2012) and by looking at organizations’ use of personalization on the social media platform Facebook, it sheds light on an area that has not been the center of attention so far and helps to expand the current state of personalization research.

Exploring Gricean maxims in Facebook conversations through the lens of Gen-Z users: A pragmatic analysis

This is a pragmatic study aimed at identifying conversational maxims violated by Gen-Z users in their Facebook conversations and the conversational implicatures embedded in their exchange of conversations. This also explored the syntactic form and the corresponding illocutionary forces used in the linguistic corpora gathered. This qualitative study applied pragmatic analysis as tool to extrapolate the maxims observed by users and the implicatures generated. Linguistic corpora were gathered from computer mediated discourse focusing on Facebook platforms. Conversations were gathered through screenshots with the approval from the identified Facebook users. These were transcribed into written form and selected to fit the objectives of the study and analyzed using Paul Grices Conversational maxims and John Austins types of Illocutionary Acts. These were also elaborated by focusing on the syntactic forms of the conversation and its explicitness or non-explicitness. Data revealed that Gen-Z users violated the four conversational maxims such as quantity, quality, relevance and manner. Implicatures were drawn according to how participants exchange their responses in the comment section of the posts. Gen-Z users manifested their degree of familiarity towards one another by directly flouting and violating the Gricean maxims. The syntactic forms used were declarative sentence, Yes/No Interrogative and Wh Interrogative. From the identified lines of conversations, the illocutioanry forces used were only representative and Yes/No and Wh Questions. All these statements were all non-explicit since no performative verbs were reflected in their computer-mediated discourse. Understanding Pragmatics as one important discipline of Linguistics is essential to develop communicative competence, intercultural sensitivity and tolerance. Speakers engaging in Facebook conversations or any computer mediated discourse may have diverse cultural backgrounds but pragmatic competence would certainly ensure the success of communication.

Rapid Sharing of Islamophobic Hate on Facebook: The Case of the Tablighi Jamaat Controversy

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about several challenges in addition to the virus itself. The rise of Islamophobic hate speech on social media is one such challenge. As countries were coping with economic collapse due to mass lockdown, hateful people, especially those associated with far-right groups, were targeting and blaming Muslims for the spread of the coronavirus. In India, where intense religious/communal polarization is taking place under the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, one such prominent instance of Islamophobia—the “Tablighi Jamaat Controversy” (TJC)—occurred. This article analyzes Facebook posts by public groups over a 5-month period (March–August 2020) to find the major actors and track their link-sharing behavior. We found that the Pro-BJP groups with a right-wing ideology spread Islamophobic hate speech, while other groups (anti-hate) worked to counter the hate. We also found that the hate disseminators were extremely active (three times faster) in sharing their content as compared with the anti-hate groups. Finally, our research indicated that the links most widely shared by the hate spreaders were mostly misinformation. These results explain the use of the Facebook platform to spread hate and misinformation, demonstrating how BJP’s pro-Hindu ideology and its attitude toward Muslims is directly and indirectly enabling these actors to spew hate against Muslims with no legal consequences.

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MENTAL SUFFERING IN PEOPLE WITH DIABETES MELLITUS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Objective: to analyze the factors associated with mental distress in people with diabetes mellitus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: cross-sectional study, conducted in two Brazilian virtual communities of the Facebook platform, in the period from August 2020 to January 2021. The sample totaled 111 people with diabetes. The evaluation of health conditions was performed using an electronic form, and the Self Report Questionnaire-20 was used to identify mental suffering. Descriptive and inferential analyses were expressed by frequencies and simple and multiple logistic regression. Results: mental suffering is associated with being female, having a previous history of mental disorders (depression and anxiety), having been diagnosed with diabetes for more than six years, and the presence of ophthalmologic complications, which increase the chances of emotional instability. Conclusion: the study offers subsidies to the direction of support strategies that minimize the psychosocial impacts of the pandemic on people with diabetes.

Analysis of Women Safety in Indian Cities Using Machine Learning on Tweets

Women and girls have been experiencing a lot of violence and harassment in public places in various cities starting from stalking and leading to abuse harassment or abuse assault. This research paper basically focuses on the role of social media in promoting the safety of women in Indian cities with special reference to the role of social media websites and applications including Twitter platform Facebook and Instagram. This paper also focuses on how a sense of responsibility on part of Indian society can be developed by the common Indian people so that we should focus on the safety of women surrounding them. Tweets on Twitter which usually contain images and text and also written messages and quotes which focus on the safety of women in Indian cities can be used to read a message amongst the Indian Youth Culture and educate people to take strict action and punish those who harass the women. Twitter and other Twitter handles which include hashtag messages that are widely spread across the whole globe sir as a platform for women to express their views about how they feel while we go out for work or travel in a public transport and what is the state of their mind when they are surrounded by unknown men and whether these women feel safe or not?

FIQH AL-BAI'S REVIEW OF ONLINE BUYING AND SELLING IN SPECIAL GROUPS ON FACEBOOK PLATFORM

Online buying and selling activities on the Facebook platform specifically for residents of Grand Cikarang City housing under the name of the Online Market group "Pasar Khusus COD Grand Cikarang City". With the development of online buying and selling, various kinds of risks arise that will haunt users, especially buyers, such as fraud, the obscurity of goods (gharar), incompatibility of goods and prices that reach the hands of the consumers, and so on. The purpose of this study is to find out the mechanism of buying and selling online in special groups on the Facebook platform and to find out the harmonization of Sharia Economic Law with buying and selling online in special market groups on the Facebook platform. The research method used in this research is a descriptive research method with qualitative data types. The results obtained in this study can be concluded that the implementation of online buying and selling in special groups on the Facebook platform uses a salam contract. There are cases where there is often uncertainty in terms of goods, prices, and the lack of certainty for the buyer to return the goods.