Online Communication Platforms Research Articles

Social Medias and Sociability in The Late Modernity

This brief essay aims to rescue part of the very diverse research agendas, oriented from the thematic trajectories “social medias” and “sociability”. These trajectories illustrate quite clearly the importance of this theoretical-methodological framework for the investigation of a wide range of issues in the contemporary social sciences. We are particularly interested in the construction of sociabilities mediated by the internet, from online communication platforms, in which it´s possible to establish social interactions with multiple actors, recovering conversation rooms, spaces of conviviality previously experienced in face-to-face interactions. They are, as we see in the approaches that stand out for their timeliness and because they are built from the Sociology of social medias, original. It´s an important example of the development of this increasingly relevant research agenda: the approach of human behaviors from the constitution of its reticular structure, but anchored from the mediation of the technology of virtual space. Keywords: Social Networks. Modernity. Sociability.

The social economy in the digital era: A perspective on community enterprises in a developing economy

Daily life is inextricably linked to the economy, especially when it comes to eating well and saving money, which can be seen as creating favourable economic conditions for both the individual and the household. The social economy is a critical engine for economic restructuring in the digital economy, as well as for increasing societal and economic resilience, fairness and sustainability. This study employed a quantitative approach to investigate the factors that influence the social economy in the community enterprise sector in developing countries. An online questionnaire was used to collect data from 619 participants in Thailand recruited through accidental sampling. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyse the data. The findings revealed that the social economy can be influenced by demographic factors such as age, residence and technological readiness, as well as online communication platforms such as Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and blogs. Career opportunities should be encouraged by helping groups of people, gathered based on common interests, to establish businesses that endorse community and social activities, thereby strengthening the community and beyond. People of diverse ages should be included to broaden the participation in activities.

Action recognition based on multimode fusion for VR online platform.

The current popular online communication platforms can convey information only in the form of text, voice, pictures, and other electronic means. The richness and reliability of information is not comparable to traditional face-to-face communication. The use of virtual reality (VR) technology for online communication is a viable alternative to face-to-face communication. In the current VR online communication platform, users are in a virtual world in the form of avatars, which can achieve "face-to-face" communication to a certain extent. However, the actions of the avatar do not follow the user, which makes the communication process less realistic. Decision-makers need to make decisions based on the behavior of VR users, but there are no effective methods for action data collection in VR environments. In our work, three modalities of nine actions from VR users are collected using a virtual reality head-mounted display (VR HMD) built-in sensors, RGB cameras and human pose estimation. Using these data and advanced multimodal fusion action recognition networks, we obtained a high accuracy action recognition model. In addition, we take advantage of the VR HMD to collect 3D position data and design a 2D key point augmentation scheme for VR users. Using the augmented 2D key point data and VR HMD sensor data, we can train action recognition models with high accuracy and strong stability. In data collection and experimental work, we focus our research on classroom scenes, and the results can be extended to other scenes.

The Association between Technology-Mediated Intimate Partner Violence and Stockholm Syndrome

Intimate partner violence is a global and devastating event. While IPV is typically conceptualized as manifesting physically, it can also manifest as emotional and mental abuse, and in many cases, this abuse can be facilitated by or even fueled by online communication platforms. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of technology-mediated violence on Stockholm syndrome. Based on previous research indicating that emotional IPV can be more damaging than solely physical IPV, we predicted that technology-mediated IPV would be a significant factor in the development of Stockholm syndrome. The results indicated that T-IPV significantly contributed to Stockholm syndrome, more so than in-person violence. Implications are presented.

SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF SUICIDAL RISK IN ADOLESCENTS IN CONDITIONS OF DIGITAL SOCIALIZATION

Deviant behavior of a teenager is the result of a complex interaction of various factors. The socio-psychological study of the new digital generation is one of the most relevant topics both in modern science and practice. The purpose of the study is to determine the psychological characteristics, emotional state and suicidal risk of adolescents in the context of the digitalization of society. Research methods included clinical conversation, Questionnaire of suicide risk, Pathocharacterological diagnostic questionnaire (PDO) for adolescents based on the classifi cation of character accentuations by A.E. Lichko (), Suicidal risk questionnaire by A.G. Shmelev, modifi ed by T.N. Razuvaeva (), the Method of diagnosing socio-psychological adaptation of K. Rogers and R. Diamond in the adaptation of A.K. Osnitsky (), test “Family sociogram”, correlation and regression analysis of suicidal risk factors. The study involved  adolescents from secondary school No.  in Samara, aged  to  years ( boys and  girls). All  surveyed adolescents actively use available online resources as sources of educational and entertaining content, and online communication platforms. Reliably signifi cant psychological factors of suicidal risk in adolescents in the context of digital socialization have been established, such as: affectivity, failure, social pessimism, breaking down cultural barriers, maximalism, negative time perspective, labile, psychasthenic and sensitive types of accentuations, dysfunctional family relationships. Based on the data obtained, a mathematical regression model for predicting suicidal risk was developed, which included signifi cant psychological factors: IP) - (. * A) + (. * NVS), where D - demonstrativeness, SP - social pessimism, M - maximalism, C - sensitive type of accentuation, IP - a tendency to true suicide, A - adaptation, NVS - violations of relationships in family. Thus, the behavior of adolescents is the result of a complex interaction of socio-psychological factors, in the development of which digital socialization plays a signifi cant role. We have concluded that digital socialization today, on the one hand, helps the process of personality formation, its adaptation and integration in society, and on the other hand, there is the emergence of new risks in the online environment: content, communication, consumer. The high reliability of the forecast in the model of the suicidal risk formation was established, which is %. Early detection of suicidal risk in modern adolescents of the new digital generation makes it possible to carry out timely prevention of suicidal behavior.

A Review on the Impact of Social Media on Societal Development

The term “social media” refers to a group of online communication platforms that focus on user-generated content, collaboration, and community involvement. This review’s main objective is to give detailed information regarding how social media affects society. Several researches suggested that social media might have both positive and positive effects. Positive results include improved learning opportunities, socialization and communication, as well as access to health-related information. Some of the negative effects of social media on societies include terrorism, criminal activity, catfishing, depression, anxiety, and catfishing. The outcome will typically be favorable when people utilize social media for the right reasons and set goals, and the opposite is true for bad side effects. To lessen and protect communities from its harmful aspects

The Problem of Gendered Emojis in Online Communication Platforms: A Study to Understand Digital Dependence on Using Emotions During Pandemic

Digitalization, affordable smart gadgets, and social distancing have turned virtual communication into a lived phenomenon. However, we should be aware of the fact that the virtual communication process is entangled with positive and negative consequences. On the one hand, it has enabled people to develop a feeling of togetherness and belonging, and on the other, it is steeped in conflict and dispute due to the extensive use of emojis that are context-sensitive and are subjected to multiple interpretations. The problem of emojis connected with sexual connotations has not been studied in an online conversation parameter. Hence, the current study examines the sexual connotations that are embedded in the usage of non-facial emojis such as eggplant, cherry, etc., in virtual communication and analyses sexual connotations that are generated in closed group interactions. The methodology undertaken in this study is a quantitative experimental research method to collect data. Participants (N=64) will determine how certain context-sensitive emojis are perceived by them in closed group online conversations. Results suggest that non-facial emojis possess sexual connotations which are highly context-specific and used extensively in interpersonal conversations. In this way, this paper will prepare the ground to study more hidden sexual connotations in emojis.

The Sentiment Analysis of EndSARS Protest in Nigeria

The extraction of public opinions from online communication platforms can serve several purposes in corporate institutions, state politics, and governance. The analysis of these opinions may be useful for both immediate business decision making and professional planning. This analysis is becoming relevant in managing social movements and digital activism by applying computational technology. There is a need to deploy this opinion mining technology to the recent largest digital activism in Nigeria known as the #EndSARS movement. In this work, we proposed the EndSARS live analytics framework which holds a promising solution to social unrest and may serve as a panacea to curbing the menace of vandalism resulting from unresolved protest issues. Using a dataset of 12,357 tweets, we demonstrated that computational technology can be relevant to addressing online protests. The result of the analysis shows the eight basic emotions expressed during the protest and approaches the government may adopt to address future activisms.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNET WEB 1.0 TO WEB 3.0 AND ITS EFFECTS ON ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

The World Wide Web has quickly become one of the primary resource of information that comes to mind for many people in many fields. The development of the internet, which has more and more application, is grouped as Web1.0, Web2.0 and Web 3.0. Today, the web, which started with Web 1.0, has become a virtual world where people can actively participate. With this development of technology and its effect on every aspect of our lives, educational practices have also begun to change. Especially with the pandemic, the tools of Web 2.0, online learning opportunities, internet resources and communication platforms have been better understood and started to be used more actively in education. Architectural education, like many other fields, has been affected by the spread of the internet and its being a source of information. In the light of these data, the study focuses on the reflections of the learning opportunities and resources that have developed with the internet on today's university students. For this purpose, formal and informal online internet-based learning environments examined in this study. In order to collect data in the research, an online internet survey prepared and applied to a group of architecture and interior design students within the limitation of Eskişehir Technical University. Questions were asked about expanding resources, tools, deficiencies in education and what their dream education is like. In the study, the evolution of the internet, the changing needs of architectural education, the offers and demands of teachers and students in different generations, students and the evolution of the internet were investigated by considering generational differences. As a result of the study in which 47 students participated, the current state of architectural education was determined from the eyes of the students in the light of the answers given.

“I Need Ammunition, Not a Ride”: The Ukrainian Cyber War

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has shown that cyberwarfare is integral to modern military strategies. Although the Russian army has developed cyber capabilities and capacities over the years, Ukraine has quickly created a new and innovative cyber defence that includes public and private actors. Using online communication platforms to reach out to populations, internally and externally, has been instrumental for military success. Inventive thinking has enabled the actors to utilise the online space and develop new computing tactics to defend the country. The intense online presence of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy stands in clear contrast to Russian President Putin. President Zelenskyy is mastering online communication and is speaking directly to the people. Because of his constant use of virtual communication platforms, new public and private resistance movements have formed based on civic activism and a defiant stance against Russian aggression. Various non-governmental groups of hackers, hacktivists and activists have created a structure of resistance, where each has taken on a role in a nodal system depending on skills and engagement levels. This article will focus on how the Ukrainian leadership has been able to carry out a successful speech act that has activated numerous online users internally and externally. This speech act has enabled a new form of online civic activism where online actors fight with the military forces — but mostly without being employed by the state. Within the first 40 days, this activism has proven beneficial to the existing military force to defend Ukraine. The article investigates Ukraine’s role in the David and Goliath fight and how Ukraine’s initiatives have helped develop its cyber defence. The research is based on secondary sources predominately based on grounded theory, where the data collected are critically compared with theoretical content. All data is theoretically sampled and analysed based on the established socio-political approaches deriving from discourse analysis. The timeframe for this research is the first 40 days of the conflict, starting on February 24 2022.

Information and Agreement in the Reputation Game Simulation.

Modern communication habits are largely shaped by the extensive use of social media and other online communication platforms. The enormous amount of available data and speed with which new information arises, however, often suffices to cause misunderstandings, false conclusions, or otherwise disturbed opinion formation processes. To investigate some of these effects we use an agent-based model on gossip and reputation dynamics with 50 agents, including Bayesian knowledge updates under bounded rationality and up to the second-order theory of mind effects. Thereby, we observe the occurrence of reputation boosts from fake images, as well as the advantage of hiding one's opinion in order to become a strong information trader. In addition, the simulations show fundamentally different mechanisms for reaching high agreement with others and becoming well-informed. Additionally, we investigate the robustness of our results with respect to different knowledge-update mechanisms and argue why it makes sense to especially emphasize the margins of distribution when judging a bounded quantity such as honesty in a reputation game simulation.

STUDENTS’ ONLINE COMMUNICATION DURING PANDEMIC: A MALAYSIAN AND TURKISH CASE STUDY

Online learning is the new norm suddenly imposed on many of us in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Online communication is crucial for students to be actively involved in the class, not just to communicate with the educators but also to communicate amongst themselves to form communities of learning typically formed through physical classes in pre-Covid-19 times. We created questionnaires through Google Form pertaining online communication amongst students in both Malay and Turkish languages. While Malaysia has a rich cultural structure with a wide variety of ethnic origins, Turkey acts as a bridge between the European and Asian continents at the western end of the Asian continent. In this study, we consider the geographies of different cultural structures in order to investigate communication behaviors of students in response to the transformation of higher education to online only during Covid-19. The data from the questionnaire is analyzed to highlight communication platforms utilized by students during the pandemic. Although there are differences in both studies of Malaysian and Turkish students, the similarities of online communication platforms preferred by many students such as WhatsApp and Instagram stand out. Interestingly, we see that male students, both Malaysian and Turkish, use more varied and diverse form of online communications platforms. Moreover, more female students from Turkey are shown to communicate face-to-face with their friends compared to their male counterparts.

Entropy Based Secure and Robust Image Watermarking Using Lifting Wavelet Transform and Multi-Level-Multiple Image Scrambling Technique

Online communication platforms prompted the versatility and easiness in communication. That’s why these platforms are witnessing abrupt rise in their usage. On the other side, it can lead to unauthorized replication and alteration of digital images that raises security concerns. Ensuring robustness, security and imperceptibility of digital watermarking has become a critical task. SVD-LWT watermarking technique along with entropy is presented and Y-channel of YCbCr color space is utilized to implant secret information. The presented paper also uses multilevel-multiple image scrambling approach to enhance security. To estimate performance, fidelity parameters namely PSNR, NPCR, UACI, SSIM, UIQI and NCC are used.

Mobility Intersections: Gender, Family, Culture and Location in the Gauteng City-Region

Abstract The morphology of many South African cities has changed little over the last 25 years: with some of the poorest communities still living on the peripheries in informal settlements and old townships. The resulting spatial mismatch, with difficulties of access and mobility, has been recorded and engaged with elsewhere; the day-to-day implications for households and families have been less well-considered. In work that was undertaken between March 2019 and February 2020 using a mixed-method approach that included focus groups, a smartphone mobility app, mapping and qualitative interviews, as well as, the use of other on-line communication platforms such as WhatsApp to gather data, the team looked at the intersection between mobility, access and household dynamics. Results surface and highlight how old spatial planning logics have direct impact on contemporary spatial footprints, mobility patterns and transit choices. Former ‘White’ neighbourhoods, designed to be relatively self-contained and meet the needs of the suburban population, still ensure relatively small spatial footprints that are car-reliant. While those living in older informal settlements and townships still have the burden of long distances to access economic and often educational advancement. Similarly, the historical layout of transport modes continues to affect the day-to-day decisions of modal choice. However, these spatial patterns and historical transit planning are overlaid with gender expectations and gendered divisions of labour—as women continue to carry most of the childcare and domestic responsibilities and men continue to feel the necessity for household income provision. Thus, historical and continued segregation in the city-region intersects with diverse dimensions of race, class and culture to perpetuate widespread gendered mobility patterns in the Gauteng City-Region.

VALUE MEASUREMENTS: CONTENT ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Social media platforms are becoming important translators of values in modern society, where young people express political sentiments through the use of various types of content. Relatively free online communication platforms, as well as high Internet penetration among young people, make it particularly relevant to study political values through content analysis in social networks. In order to determine the political values of young people that they broadcast on social networks, a comprehensive study was conducted based on the use of case-study, event-analysis and content analysis methods. In total, 42 groups of neutral dialogue platforms were studied; 42 - opposition and 23 communities of the “Young Guard”. Such a sample allows us to identify the peculiarities of the transmission of political values depending on geography, local traditions, peculiarities of mentality, and the development of civic activism.

Deep learning for religious and continent-based toxic content detection and classification

With time, numerous online communication platforms have emerged that allow people to express themselves, increasing the dissemination of toxic languages, such as racism, sexual harassment, and other negative behaviors that are not accepted in polite society. As a result, toxic language identification in online communication has emerged as a critical application of natural language processing. Numerous academic and industrial researchers have recently researched toxic language identification using machine learning algorithms. However, Nontoxic comments, including particular identification descriptors, such as Muslim, Jewish, White, and Black, were assigned unrealistically high toxicity ratings in several machine learning models. This research analyzes and compares modern deep learning algorithms for multilabel toxic comments classification. We explore two scenarios: the first is a multilabel classification of Religious toxic comments, and the second is a multilabel classification of race or toxic ethnicity comments with various word embeddings (GloVe, Word2vec, and FastText) without word embeddings using an ordinary embedding layer. Experiments show that the CNN model produced the best results for classifying multilabel toxic comments in both scenarios. We compared the outcomes of these modern deep learning model performances in terms of multilabel evaluation metrics.

The autobiographical archive in post-communist Romania: “True” heroes and collective victimization

Considering the emerging field of anti-totalitarian collective memory of communism, this article explores the interplay between the autobiographical archives and the public discourse on memory. It questions the appeal for establishing the “true” history of communism as it is reflected at the autobiographical archive level. Based on Elisabeta Rizea’s relevant case study and using a comprehensive approach addressing the discourse on memory in Romania, the grounding elements of the autobiographical archive are analyzed. Its afterlife is discussed in terms of its reception and through user-generated content specific to online communication platforms. The article argues that while the entanglements between the autobiographical archive and the discourse on memory of the Romanian communist past demonstrate a prevalence of the victimization and heroism narratives, the online engagement indicates both a continuity with these narratives and a (re)working of autobiographical archive in the register of truthfulness and authenticity.

Engaging in Interdisciplinary Coastal Research During a Pandemic

Developing a deeper understanding of the human dimensions of coral reef restoration and monitoring is imperative in efforts to sustain and restore the world’s coral reefs, which are experiencing catastrophic declines. This article reports on the methodologies used to conduct interdisciplinary fieldwork that began in June 2020, investigating how coral restoration practitioners navigated the ecological and societal changes impacting reef restoration and monitoring strategies for the Florida Reef Tract. The necessity to limit face-to-face contact due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in shifts in the way the researchers communicated with stakeholders regarding environmental management practices. The research team utilized digital ethnographic methodologies to investigate the challenges in testing and implementing monitoring methods used for coral reef restoration. This paper discusses the impact of conducting interdisciplinary team-based research and community engagement during a pandemic. The challenges and opportunities in conducting virtual ethnographic interviews from multi-leveled stakeholder groups through online communication platforms are explored. This work found that the COVID-19 pandemic restructured the way research can be conducted to reach stakeholders who would be unavailable using traditional in-person data collection strategies.

A community resilience linguistic framework for risk assessment: using second order moral foundations and emotion on social media

ABSTRACT Mainstream risk assessment frameworks such as TRAP-18, ERG22+, VERA-2R, and RADAR largely use Structured Professional Judgement to map individuals against four critical factors; ideology, affiliation, grievance, and moral emotions. However, the growing use of online communication platforms by extremists presents a series of opportunities to complement or extend existing risk assessment frameworks. Here, we examine linguistic markers of morality and emotion in ideologically diverse online discussion groups and discuss their relevance to extant risk assessment frameworks. Specifically, we draw on social media data from the Reddit platform collected across a range of community topics. Nine hundred and eighty-eight threads containing 272,298 individual comments were processed before constructing high-order models of moral emotions. Emotional and moral linguistic content was then derived from these comments. We then conducted comparisons of linguistic content between mainstream left and right political discourse, anti-Muslim (far-right), Men’s Rights (Incel-like), and a nonviolent apolitical control group. Results show that a combination of individualising moral communication and high emotionality separate far-right and Incel-like groups from mainstream political discourse and provide an early warning opportunity.

Revisiting trust in the digital era: the interplay of online trust and online dialogic communication from the practitioners' perspective

PurposeWith the prevailing use of online communication platforms, this study revisits the definitions of trust in an online context. By exploring organizational online communications from a practitioners' perspective, a conceptual framework that illustrates the nature of trust and its relationship with dialogic communication between organizations and organizations' stakeholders in the digital era is proposed.Design/methodology/approachA total of 27 in-depth interviews were conducted with public relations and marketing practitioners involved in coordinating organizational online communications in Hong Kong.FindingsFrom the practitioners' perspective, stakeholders' online trust toward an organization, which is a hybridity of initial and rapidly evolving trust, begins with stakeholders swift and initial judgment of the organization according to category-based cues (including knowledge-based attributes of the organization, institutional cues, and particular attributes of online dialogic communication) available on online platforms and further develops over time. Practitioners regard the integration of online and offline communication platforms to be the most effective way to build trust in organization–stakeholder relationships in the digital era, while dialectical tensions can hinder trust formed in online communication.Originality/valueAlong with the proposed conceptual framework, this study advances the discussion of online trust in public relations practices from the practitioners' perspective. A qualitative approach provides rich descriptions that may help to enrich theories in public relations and communication management regarding the interplay of trust and dialogic communication in organizational practices in the digital era.