Number Of Social Networking Sites Research Articles

Motivation Scale for Using Social Network Sites: Comparative Study between Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and LinkedIn.

The increasing number of Social Network Sites (SNSs) and their changing nature raise the question of why people use them. This research has a twofold objective: first, to develop a motivation scale for using SNSs; second, to compare the motivational SNSs profile of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and LinkedIn. Two studies on 364 university students, using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, established six motivations: entertainment, social interaction, seeking information, instrumental use, self-documentation and self-enhancement. Regressions then examined the association between motivations for using SNSs, social influence measures (descriptive and injunctive norms), and frequency of use of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and LinkedIn. The results showed that social norms complement the motivations to use SNSs. Twitter use was associated with an information-seeking SNSs motivational profile. LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram were associated with self-documentation on SNSs. Snapchat was rather associated with instrumental motivations on SNSs. However, while all SNSs were associated with descriptive norms, only Facebook and LinkedIn were associated with injunctive norms (i.e., peer pressure). The results are discussed by applying a cross-media perspective to new motives behind SNSs use.

Fake News Detection Using Deep Learning

Abstract: Social media news may be a double-edged sword. There are a number of benefits to utilizing it: It's simple to use, takes little time, and is user-friendly. It's also simple to share socially significant data with others. On the other hand, a number of social networking sites adapt the news based on personal opinions and interests. This sort of misinformation is spread over social media with the intent of causing harm to a person, organization, or institution. Because of the prevalence of fake news, computer tools are needed to detect it. Fake news detection aims to aid users in spotting various sorts of fake news. We can tell if the news is genuine or created if we have encountered fake or authentic news before. We may use a number of models to understand social media news. This is a donation in two ways. We must first give datasets containing both fake and accurate news and conduct multiple experiments before developing a false news detector. Various machine learning techniques are used to categorize the data. Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Naives Bayes, Gradient Boost and Decision Tree techniques are used and compared. It was found that Gradient Boost has the best accuracy.

The Effect of Interactive Social Media Platforms on Stock Market Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia: Case Study in the Java Island

This paper aims to examine the effect of learning from interactive social media platforms on stock market participation of domestic retail investors during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Java Island, Indonesia. The upsurge of retail investors and active social media users and also the detrimental effect of COVID-19 pandemic on Indonesia stock market became the urgent opportunity to increase the stock market participation. Analysing a survey data consists of 362 respondents, we find that the increase in number of social networking sites and online stock communities promote stock market participation. Furthermore, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube are proven to increase stock market participation for social networking sites and for online stock communities, Telegram is also proven to increase stock market participation. On the other hand, there is no enough evidence that Facebook significantly promote stock market participation. Our findings suggest policymakers should consider social media platforms that promote stock market participation when developing financial education program. Therefore, it is hoped that the increase in stock market participation will lead to a better economic condition for Indonesia.

On the Association between the Use of Digital Devices and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Lockdown

To limit the spread of COVID-19, lockdown measures have been adopted and digital devices (DDs) have become crucial to interpersonal interaction. This work aimed to investigate whether the lockdown condition interacted with the use of DDs in predicting psychosocial well-being. A two-group cross-sectional design was employed: One sample was recruited before the emergency (n = 108), the other during the lockdown (n = 261). Hierarchical regression analyses were used to investigate the moderating role of the lockdown condition on the association between the use of DDs and well-being, while controlling for off-line behaviors. The association between the number of social network sites (SNSs) used and depression was nonsignificant before the emergency, whereas a significant positive association was observed during the lockdown. The association between the number of SNSs used and satisfaction with social relationships was nonsignificant during the lockdown, although a significant positive association had been observed before the pandemic. The results indicate that the association of SNS use with depression and satisfaction with social relationships differed in the pre-pandemic and lockdown phases. Keywords: Anxiety, Depression, COVID-19, Digital devices, Social network sites

Fear of Missing Out and Personality as Predictors of Social Networking Sites Usage: The Instagram Case.

With the exponential increase in the number of social networking sites (SNS) users, there is also a significant shift in the popularity of these SNS. Moreover, fear of missing out (FOMO) is often blamed for the growth in SNS addictive tendencies. The current research examines the influence of FOMO and Big 5 personality traits on SNS attitudes, usage, and addictive tendencies in the context of an increasingly popular SNS - Instagram. Participants completed online questionnaires that assessed their personality traits and then be-friended one of the researchers on Instagram, which provided the actual Instagram activity data (e.g., total number of Instagram posts, total number of likes, etc.). Hierarchical regression results showed that personality factors explained significant amounts of variance in terms of attitude towards Instagram, number of likes, total number of Instagram posts since account inception, and social media addictive tendencies. Furthermore, FOMO had a significant positive effect on attitude toward Instagram, the total number of Instagram accounts that respondents followed, and social media addictive tendencies.

The Fabricated Hadiths And The Harmful Of Spreading Them On Social Media

The importance of the research is illustrated by his study of a serious problem facing the Islamic community in our time due to the scientific development and modern technology, the large number of social networking sites and the rapid spread of news among many numbers of people. And due to the ignorance of some Muslims in the Sunnah of the Prophet, and the fact that it is the second source of Islamic law, and their duty to investigate and annihilate it, they have deliberated among themselves false fabricated hadiths attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God be upon him, and his family, and they calculate the work of charity in that their subjects urge to do good. Wages and gross reward are really easy. The research aims to address this problem by intimidating people from lying to the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, and clarifying his prohibition and the punishment of his perpetrator, and the seriousness of this in spoiling the Muslim belief and introducing provisions on Islamic law that are not from them. And by explaining that it is necessary to investigate the authenticity of the hadeeths before resuming them to any person, because the sender is a participant of the one who puts them in the necessity of deserving the sin shown. It divided the research into three topics, the first topic and clarified the meaning of the subject matter, its ruling, and the reasons for the situation. And the second topic showed the categories of the men of whom the hadiths are not taken, and the methods of knowing the subject matter. The third topic mentioned the study of some of the common hadiths placed on social networking sites to show that they are placed and are not valid attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him and his family, and concluded with a conclusion that showed the most important results and recommendations reached.

Social Media as a Marketing Tool for European and North American Universities and Colleges

Abstract Objective: The purpose of the following study is to examine the approach to social media of European and North American higher education institutions ranked in the Top100 on the 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Data regarding the number of publications and the number of followers of each social media were analysed. Methodology: The present study is quantitative in nature. The sample consisted of the European and North American universities and colleges listed in the Top 100 of the ARWU 2017: in total, 48 institutions in the United States and 35 in Europe were identified. To analyse the official social media sites used by each higher education institution, the links presented on the Homepage of the universities’ website were followed. Data was collected between the 27nd of August and the 2nd of September 2018. Two different types of variable groups were defined: 1) the number and type of Universities’ publications, and 2) the number of followers on each social media. For benefit of the research the authors considered Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Weibo and VKontakte as social networking sites; Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr and Snapchat, as photo sharing platforms; Youtube, and Vimeo as video sharing platforms, and finally Twitter and Tumblr as microblogs. Findings: European and North American universities and colleges invest in marketing activities in social media. Regarding the number of social networking sites, content sharing and microblogging platforms no significant differences were found between means of the two independent samples. The most popular social media used are Facebook and Twitter ex-aequo, followed by Youtube, Instagram and LinkedIn. Concerning the number of publications on these media, significant differences by region are present for the variable number of photos and videos on Facebook, number of Instagram posts, and tweets. Furthermore, on all the prominent social media, North American universities and colleges benefit from a substantial higher number of followers than their counterpart. European users favour Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and only then Instagram. Participation in G+ is marginal. In the United States the preferred social media are Facebook, LinkedIn, G+, Twitter, and Instagram. Regarding user engagement, measured by the number of followers, equality of means between the two independent samples were found for Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr and Youtube. Differences exist for the social media: LinkedIn, G+, Instagram, and Twitter. G+ is quite popular in the United States, but not in Europe, and Twitter attracts visibly more followers too. Value Added: The contribution of this research paper consists in better understanding, from a quantitative point of view, differences between the use of social media as a marketing tool by the European and North American higher education institutions listed in the Top100 of the ARWU 2017. Regional differences exist, even though universities and colleges compete on a worldwide basis. Recommendations: From an academic perspective, a qualitative study approach is advised to better understand the concurrence of the number of publications and followers on the different social media, since significant Pearson correlations between variables were identified. As practical implications, marketers from the European higher education institutions should invest more in posts, uploads and tweets. For both regions, the social networking site LinkedIn has been neglected, despite the high number of followers.

Falling Prey to Online Romantic Alternatives: Evaluating Social Media Alternative Partners in Committed Versus Dating Relationships

Social media represents an integral platform that is currently used to maintain and develop new social connections including alternative romantic partners. Over engagement with online friends and pursuing alternative partners can potentially threaten the primary romantic relationship. In the present study, the author examined if the partners’ relationship status is a predictor of relationship satisfaction, quality of online romantic alternatives, online infidelity-related behaviors, social media addiction, and the total number of social networking sites (SNSs) accounts. In a cross-sectional study, romantic partners ( N = 578, 378 females and 200 males) completed a battery of self-report scales. The partners were divided into two groups based on their relationship status: Those who reported to be in a committed relationship ( n = 330) and those who reported to be in a casual dating relationship ( n = 248). Results revealed that there is a significant between-group difference in the way both groups evaluated the quality of potential alternative partners and level of SNSs addiction. However, there was no between-group difference in relationship satisfaction, SNSs infidelity behaviors, or the total number of SNSs accounts. The dating group reported significantly more sexual alternatives than the committed group. However, the number of potential committed alternatives was not significantly different between the two groups. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed.

The moderating role of age in the relationship between social media use and mental well-being: An analysis of the 2016 General Social Survey

The relationship between using social networking sites (SNS) and mental health is a thriving area of research producing mixed results. While terms such as “Facebook depression” have gained popularity in the mainstream press, there is not a consensus on the relationship between SNS use and mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. Mixed results from past research hint that age might moderate the SNS/mental health relationship, yet no specific tests of this interaction have been previously reported. In this study, we examine the relationship by analyzing data from the 2016 General Social Survey (GSS). We show that, overall, the number of SNSs one uses is positively related to respondents reporting that they have felt like they were going to have a nervous breakdown. While this relationship is positive for respondents 30 years old and older, it is negative for those who are 18–29 years olds.

Social media use and cybercivility guidelines in U.S. nursing schools: A review of websites.

This research analyzes to what extent U.S. nursing schools use social media, their policies or guidelines on cybercivility in social media, online classrooms, and email correspondence, and whether these protocols are readily available to students. This website-based study employs a descriptive, cross-sectional, non-experimental search design. Data were collected in nursing schools offering master's programs (n=197) and online graduate programs in master's degree (n=110) listed in the 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report. School ranking was positively correlated with the total number of social networking sites being used in the schools, but not with the presence of cybercivility guidelines. About a third of the nursing schools in the sample had policies/guidelines concerning social media, while fewer than 10% had policies/guidelines about online classroom conduct (n=14) or email use (n=16). Key features of these protocols were professionalism, expected behaviors, and consequences. Establishing and implementing policies and guidelines regarding cybercivility is a vital step to promote a culture of civility online. It is especially important to do so in nursing schools where standards should reflect the values of the profession.

A Lexical Approach for Opinion Mining in Twitter

The blossoming of a significant number of social networking sites, blogs, and microblogs has given a podium for general masses to voice their opinion regarding social topics, economic issues, political matters, market trends etc. However, this sudden eruption of review data had opened floodgates to unmanageable records as it is almost impossible for any individual or organization to manually extract any useful information from it. Opinion mining or sentimental analysis is a natural language processing which can obtain the opinion or feeling of people about any particular product or subject. The main focus of this paper is to find a method to perform sentiment analysis of Twitter which is one of the most prevalent microblogging sites. The lexical method proposed in this paper classifies the tweets as positive, negative or neutral depending on the polarity of the words in it. Also, the role of negation words has been investigated.

Gender Variations in the Effects of Number of Organizational Memberships, Number of Social Networking Sites, and Grade-Point Average on Global Social Responsibility in Filipino University Students.

The study seeks to estimate gender variations in the direct effects of (a) number of organizational memberships, (b) number of social networking sites (SNS), and (c) grade-point average (GPA) on global social responsibility (GSR); and in the indirect effects of (a) and of (b) through (c) on GSR. Cross-sectional survey data were drawn from questionnaire interviews involving 3,173 Filipino university students. Based on a path model, the three factors were tested to determine their inter-relationships and their relationships with GSR. The direct and total effects of the exogenous factors on the dependent variable are statistically significantly robust. The indirect effects of organizational memberships on GSR through GPA are also statistically significant, but the indirect effects of SNS on GSR through GPA are marginal. Men and women significantly differ only in terms of the total effects of their organizational memberships on GSR. The lack of broad gender variations in the effects of SNS, organizational memberships and GPA on GSR may be linked to the relatively homogenous characteristics and experiences of the university students interviewed. There is a need for more path models to better understand the predictors of GSR in local students.

Community detection in social networks

The expansion of the web and emergence of a large number of social networking sites (SNS) have empowered users to easily interconnect on a shared platform. A social network can be represented by a graph consisting of a set of nodes and edges connecting these nodes. The nodes represent the individuals/entities, and the edges correspond to the interactions among them. The tendency of people with similar tastes, choices, and preferences to get associated in a social network leads to the formation of virtual clusters or communities. Detection of these communities can be beneficial for numerous applications such as finding a common research area in collaboration networks, finding a set of likeminded users for marketing and recommendations, and finding protein interaction networks in biological networks. A large number of community‐detection algorithms have been proposed and applied to several domains in the literature. This paper presents a survey of the existing algorithms and approaches for the detection of communities in social networks. We also discuss some of the applications of community detection. WIREs Data Mining Knowl Discov 2016, 6:115–135. doi: 10.1002/widm.1178This article is categorized under: Algorithmic Development > Structure Discovery

Exploring students’ intention to use LINE for academic purposes based on technology acceptance model

<p>The LINE application is often conceived as purely social space; however, the authors of this paper wanted to determine if it could be used for academic purposes. In this study, we examined how undergraduate students accepted LINE in terms of using it for classroom-related activities (e.g., submit homework, follow up course information queries, download materials) and explored the factors that might affect their intention to use it. Data were collected from 144 undergraduate students enrolled in an English course that utilized some activities based on LINE app using a questionnaire developed from TAM. Data were analyzed to see if relationships existed among factors when LINE was used to organize classroom experiences. The findings revealed that perceived usefulness and attitude toward usage had positive relationships with intention to use while perceived ease of use was positively related to perceived usefulness. In contrast with TAM assertions, this study did not find any relationship between perceived ease of use and attitude toward usage. Also, the number of social networking sites that students are using had no relationship with intention to use. The study also suggested some kinds of LINE-based learning activities preferred by students, which would be proposed for future courses. This study revealed several useful implications that TAM can be employed as a useful theoretical framework to predict and understand users’ intention to use new technologies in education.</p>

The Investigation of Social Communication Apprehension and Motives for Social Network Sites Usage

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the possible connection between social network sites (SNSs) usage and communication apprehensiveness or communication easiness. Survey was conducted (N=229) to find a possible connection between communication apprehension or easiness and the use of SNSs in addition to the motives for the use of some popular SNSs. The survey was conducted at a private university in Turkey and probability sampling was used to select the sample from the population. It was found that socially communicative individuals connected to SNSs for long hours. Facebook users were drawn by two leading motives to use Facebook: relaxing entertainment and professional advancement. Expressive information sharing was the main reason why users connected to Twitter. The motives for using Google+ were meeting with new people, and habitual pass time-companionship. Escapism and habitual pass time-companionship motivate individuals to use SNSs more frequently and for long hours. On the other hand, individuals who have a need for ‘meeting new people’ had more number of SNSs. The findings were discussed by using several theoretical perspectives (e.g., the rich get richer, and U&G) in the results section and included practical recommendations and further suggestions.

Awareness and Use of Academic Social Networking Sites by the Academic Staff at the South Valley University in Egypt

Awareness and Use of Academic Social Networking Sites by the Academic Staff at the South Valley University in Egypt Doaa K. El-Berry Abstract Although there are a number of social networking sites that are widely used by academic and non-academic people mostly for entertainment, the academic social networking sites (ASNSs) specifically target scholars. The ASNSs are the virtual platform where researchers can create a profile and communicate with others sharing similar research interests. The current study attempts to explore the awareness and use of five famous ASNSs; namely ResearchGate, Acedemia.edu, LinkedIn, Mendeley and Scholastica by the South Valley University (SVU)’academic staff. A structured questionnaire was sent to different categories of the SVU academics via email and Facebook. Data analysis revealed that most of the respondents were aware of and using the ASNSs. ResearchGate demonstrated the highest level of awareness and usage followed by LinkedIn, Acedemi.edu, Mendeley and Scholastica, respectively. Further studies are required to explore the use of the SVU academic staff to other ASNSs and the effects of these sites on their professional performance. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jlis.v3n2a7

Adverse Effects of Online Social Networking on Children and Adolescents

Technological advances over the last few decades have probably had a much bigger impact on our lives than we had imagined or were indeed prepared for. Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have become an intricate part of modern life. They are the perfect examples of technological and social platforms converging to provide a new communication medium. There are a number of SNSs where individuals set up their online profiles to establish and maintain social contact with others. Children and adolescents have taken to these SNSs quite effortlessly. These SNSs provide them with a lot of novel and innovative opportunities but at the same time also give rise to additional risks such as potential abuse, exposure to inappropriate content, online bullying all potentially having psychological implications. Some of the risks are a continuation of those experienced by children and young people offline but many are new and not anticipated. While these SNSs have brought a lot of positives generally, there is no denying the fact that we have been found ill prepared to deal withsome of the risks that they pose.

A comparative study of three social networking websites

Recently, the number of social networking sites is rapidly increasing, and the number of users joining these sites is dramatically increasing as well. This paper aims at comprehensively comparing t...

Distributed context aware collaborative filtering approach for P2P service selection and recovery in wireless mesh networks

With the evolution of large number of social networking sites in which various users share the information at various levels in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) manner, there is a need of efficient P2P collaborative mechanisms to achieve efficiency and accuracy at each level. To achieve high level of accuracy and scalability, a distributed collaborative filtering (CF) approach for P2P service selection and recovery is proposed in this paper. The proposed approach is different from the traditional centralized approaches as both user and network views are modelled and an estimation of the service recovery time is included if some of the services are failed during execution. A novel Context Aware P2P Service Selection and Recovery (CAPSSR) algorithm is proposed. To filter the relevant contents for user needs, a new Distributed Filtering Metric (DFM) is included in the algorithm which selects the contents based upon the user input. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated with traditional centralized algorithm with respect to scalability and accuracy. The results obtained show that the proposed approach is better than the existing approaches in terms of accuracy and scalability.

ITunes Is Pretty (Useless) When You’re Blind: Digital Design Is Triggering Disability When It Could Be a Solution

This article critically examines the promise of Internet-based digital technology to open up the world to people with disabilities, and the parallel danger that the social construction of disability in the digital environment will simply come to mirror pre-existing analogue discrimination. This paper explores how technologies and innovations designed to improve access by the disabled actually enhance access for all users. The first part of the paper focuses on ‘Web 2.0’ and digital access for people with disability, particularly those with vision impairment. The online software that drives the iPod and iPhone and exclusively delivers content to these devices is iTunes. While iTunes seems on the surface to provide enormous opportunity for the vision impaired to access a broad selection of audio content, its design actually works to inhibit access to the platform for this group. Apple promotes the use of iTunes in educational settings through the iTunes U channel, and this potentially excludes those who have difficulty with access to the technology. Critically, it is these excluded people who, potentially, could benefit the most from the new technology. We consider the difficulty experienced by users of screen readers and braille tablets in relation to iTunes and highlight the potential problems for universities who seek to utilise iTunes U. In the second part of the paper we reframe disability accessibility as a principle of universal access and design and outline how changes made to assist users with disability can enhance the learning experience of all students using the Lectopia lecture recording and distribution system as an example. The third section of the paper situates these digital developments within the continuum of disability theory deploying Finkelstein’s three stages of disability development. The focus then shifts to the potential of online virtual worlds such as Second Life to act as a place where the promise of technology to mediate for disability might be realised. Goggin and Newell suggest that the Internet will not be fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. This article argues that accessibility must be addressed through the context of design and shared open standards for digital platforms.