Use Of Online Social Media Research Articles

Stress Unseen: The Role of Social Connectedness on Digital Wellbeing for Students and Professionals

The rapid development of technology is making it faster and more accessible for people worldwide to communicate and socialise. However, exposure to and use of online social media can harm well-being and psychosocial development, including mental health. This study investigates the relationship between perceived stress and digital well-being with social connectedness as a mediator variable. The research participants were recruited by convenience sampling, including 242 students and 100 workers. The regression analysis shows that the study's result implies that stress as a determinant of mental health has a mixed impact on overall digital well-being based on an individual's social connectedness. The findings of this study indicate potential long-term benefits or drawbacks in the debate regarding the use of digital media and technology in stressful situations for active users of digital media and technology, particularly among students.

Online social media poses opportunities and risks in autistic youth: implications for services from a qualitative study.

Autistic people are vulnerable to developing mental health problems due to their difficulties in managing social situations and interpersonal relationships. The popular online social media (OSM) can be a potential solution to these concerns for their social lives as it allows non-face-to-face social interactions, however it remained unclear how this group is using these online platforms. This study explored their experiences of using online social media, and their perceived benefits and risks associated with this use. Qualitative data was collected through in-depth face to face interviews. We recruited 13 autistic young adults who were with normal intelligence from two community centers in Hong Kong. Interviews were conducted in a semi-structured format by experienced clinical psychologist and social workers. Four themes were identified from the data, namely: (1) Paradox of using OSM to supplement social needs; (2) Unpleasant social interactions in the online environment; (3) Restricted and repetitive pattern of interest leading to troubles in OSM use, and; (4) Privacy and personal safety issues. The results suggested that while OSM could be a useful tool for our participants to connect with existing friends and to meet new ones, their limitations, such as difficulties in understanding languages and social interaction as well as restricted patterns of interests could potentially put them at risk, including interpersonal conflicts, cyber-bullying, financial scams, as well as unwanted sexual experiences. These experiences not only paradoxically increased their sense of loneliness and their distance from others, but also resulted in a negative impact on their mood and functioning. This qualitative study provided some insights into the OSM use among autistic young adults. OSM could be a useful tool to overcome potential limitations in social interactions, but at the same time it could potentially bring detrimental consequences. In order to maximize the benefits of online social networking, there is a need for timely guidance and support to use OSM among autists, and for psychoeducation to promote awareness, and enable adequate skills and behaviors attainment associated with safe OSM use.

Using Social Media Camping Data for Evaluating, Quantifying, and Understanding Recreational Ecosystem Services in Post-COVID-19 Megacities: A Case Study from Beijing

Recreational ecosystem services (RESs) are the diverse recreational opportunities provided by nature to humans, which contribute to the improvement of public health and social well-being. The use of online social media is an efficient method for quantifying public perceptions of recreational ecosystem services (RESs) delivered by a given landscape. With the continuously changing demand for nature-focused outdoor recreational activities since COVID-19, camping has become the fastest-growing outdoor leisure activity in megacities and a key indicator for how people perceive and value the RESs provided by the landscape. Such unexpected changings triggered by COVID-19 have further led to an imbalance between demand and supply, which results in fierce conflicts in urban green space management. This study presents a spatial pattern analysis of how people perceive RESs in a megacity-scale case study of Beijing using geo-tagged camping notes posted on Little Red Book (LRB). We employed these camping notes in the context of a megacity to (i) map public camping behaviors patterns in urban green spaces, (ii) evaluate spatial clusters of high/low RESs, and (iii) investigate the relationship between RESs, local landscape features, and gender through correspondence analysis. Our results show that considerable spatial clustering of camping behaviors was observed in both suburban and urban green spaces. However, suburbs revealed a substantially higher RES value than central urban areas. In addition, water bodies were discovered to have remarkably low RES, while grassland and urban forests were found to have a close link with higher RES. In addition, significant gender preferences have been discovered, where female visitors prefer to camp in grassland, and male visitors favor bare ground and urbanized regions. Our findings would assist decision-makers in optimizing urban green space planning and management, adapting to fast-changing public camping demands in the context of the post-COVID-19 era. Findings also contribute to the literature by applying spatial analysis of social media data to understand public outdoor recreation activities and perceived value for megacities’ green space management.

Social Capital from Online Social Media is Associated with Visiting a Healthcare Practitioner at Least Once a Year Among College Students.

: Social capital is positively associated with healthcare access such as healthcare practitioner visits. There does not appear to be any literature on social capital through online social media and its association with healthcare access such as healthcare practitioner visits. This paper studies the relationship between social capital through online social media use and healthcare practitioner visits. Methods: Data were analyzed from 663 participants in New York City in 2017 with exposure to social media prescription medication advertisements from social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube). The main predictor variable was visiting a healthcare practitioner at least once a year. Outcome variables were bonding social capital and bridging social capital from online social media. Results: Those who visited a healthcare practitioner at least once a year had greater mean bonding social capital and bridging social capital from online social media than those who did not visit a healthcare practitioner at least once a year. Multivariate linear regression analyses showed a similar pattern for not visiting a healthcare practitioner at least once a year (bonding social capital: b=-5.31, SE=1.68, p=0.002; bridging social capital: b=-3.27, SE=1.55, p=0.04). Conclusions: Government organizations, healthcare practitioners, and healthcare organizations should continue marketing and disseminating health education for young adults through online social media. This public health online social media health education is likely to be considered bonding social capital and/or bridging social capital by young adults and this may be associated with more young adults visiting healthcare practitioners at least once a year.

The Impact of Online Social Media on Chinese Professional Badminton Players

The use of online social media is an inevitable activity for many professional athletes, and under the background of the rapid development of sports in the information age and the commercialization of sports, the performance of Chinese professional badminton players will be affected by online social media. From the positive aspect, it is beneficial for professional badminton players to promote sports, promote accountability and training performance, can be monitored on online social media, and sports commercialization also has gifts to increase the income of professional athletes. From the negative aspects, rapid information development and negative evaluation storms can put pressure on athletes to make decisions and cause them to play intensively, Moreover, the commercialization of sports brings income to athletes, and the impatience brought by high income will also show up, so that they are not focused enough in the competition training. Therefore, the right treatment of online social media and its impact is conducive to the sustainable development of professional badminton players.

The Use of Online Social Media Platforms by Tanzania Journalists to Produce and Disseminate Development News

Advancement in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are revolutionizing Development Journalism (DJ) into an effective strategy for building competitive economies globally. However, many countries in Africa including Tanzania are slow in tapping potentials of ICT for development journalism. Digital penetration in the form of the Internet and social media are changing the way in which journalists are mobilizing and engaging communities in journalism practises, a key strategy for a competitive digitalised economy. This paper was guided by Development Communication Theory and Diffusion of Innovation Theory to explore the use of online social media by journalists in Tanzania to practice development journalism. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this paper analyses risks and benefits of online social media platforms in contributing to national development goals. A total of 15 social media journalists and managers from Mwananchi Digital, Ayo TV and Azam TV gave their insights in this paper. Use of online social media platforms for development news is still in its infancy stage, key findings show that out of 270 (100%) studied news items, only 66 (24%) manifested development news practice. Non-development news accounted for 204 (76%) of news items analysed. There were only four (4) (27%) journalists who use social media as a source of information, and platform for disseminating development news in Ayo TV compared to 3 (20%) in Mwananchi Digital and 5 (33%) in Azam TV. Results call upon some intensive national efforts to empower journalists in the use of ICT and mobilize audience in the changing communication patterns.

MTDOT: A Multilingual Translation-Based Data Augmentation Technique for Offensive Content Identification in Tamil Text Data

The posting of offensive content in regional languages has increased as a result of the accessibility of low-cost internet and the widespread use of online social media. Despite the large number of comments available online, only a small percentage of them are offensive, resulting in an unequal distribution of offensive and non-offensive comments. Due to this class imbalance, classifiers may be biased toward the class with the most samples, i.e., the non-offensive class. To address class imbalance, a Multilingual Translation-based Data augmentation technique for Offensive content identification in Tamil text data (MTDOT) is proposed in this work. The proposed MTDOT method is applied to HASOC’21, which is the Tamil offensive content dataset. To obtain a balanced dataset, each offensive comment is augmented using multi-level back translation with English and Malayalam as intermediate languages. Another balanced dataset is generated by employing single-level back translation with Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu as intermediate languages. While both approaches are equally effective, the proposed multi-level back-translation data augmentation approach produces more diverse data, which is evident from the BLEU score. The MTDOT technique proposed in this work achieved a promising improvement in F1-score over the widely used SMOTE class balancing method by 65%.

Adaptation and validation of the Online-Fear of Missing Out Inventory into Turkish and the association with social media addiction, smartphone addiction, and life satisfaction

BackgroundIn online environments, fear of missing out (FoMO) is where individuals become constantly preoccupied with what others are doing online and feel unable to log off in case they miss something. FoMO is a concept associated with the use of online social media (OSM; e.g., Facebook use, Instagram use) and various scales have been developed to assess the concept. One such scale is the Online Fear of Missing Out (On-FoMO) Inventory. The present study translated the On-FoMO Inventory into Turkish and its main aim was to test the validity and reliability of the scale. The secondary aim was to investigate the relationships between FoMO, social media addiction, smartphone addiction, and life satisfaction.MethodsA total of 419 participants (289 females and 130 males, mean age = 25.43 years, SD = 6.37) completed a self-report questionnaire including the On-FoMO Inventory, Fear of Missing Out Scale, Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale, Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version, and Satisfaction with Life Scale. In the adaptation process of the On-FoMO Inventory, confirmatory factor analysis, concurrent validity, and reliability analyses were performed.ResultsThe four-factor structure of the On-FoMO Inventory was confirmed and the Turkish version of the scale demonstrated good reliability. Online FoMO was positively related to social media addiction and smartphone addiction, and negatively related to life satisfaction.ConclusionThe results showed that the Turkish version of the On-FoMO Inventory has strong psychometric properties.

The use of online social media for the recruitment of people living with HIV in Spain and Latin America: Lessons from two studies.

Various barriers make recruiting a difficult task for researchers, especially when recruiting people living with HIV (PLWH) or conducting longitudinal studies. Effective recruitment is crucial to the validity of studies, and in this regard, social media can come to aid, although researchers usually rely on paid advertisements. This paper describes the free social media strategies used for participant recruitment in two studies carried out with PLWH in Spain and Latin America. Study 1 was a cross-sectional study on the validation of two stigma scales with a 1-month retest. Study 2 was a longitudinal study exploring the mental health of newly diagnosed PLWH, with a second assessment after 6months. Facebook posts, Twitter mentions, and discussion forums were used in both studies. Study 2 also recruited participants through a healthcare centre. In Study 1, 5-month recruitment yielded a sample of 458 PLWH, averaging 91.6 surveys/month and a 43% retention rate. In study 2, recruitment took 16months, yielding a final sample of 145 newly diagnosed PLWH, 92 from the healthcare centre (5.75 surveys/month) and 53 from social media (3.31 surveys/month), with 95% and 60% retention rates, respectively. Participants in Study 2 did not differ in sociodemographic characteristics by recruitment method, except for the region of origin and financial difficulty (more diverse origin and greater difficulty emerged in social media participants). Greater psychological distress and lower personal and social resources were also found in social media participants. These data indicate that free social media recruitment is a feasible and effective tool for the recruitment of Spanish-speaking PLWH, although it is best used in combination with traditional methods for newly diagnosed PLWH and longitudinal studies.

Analisis Dampak Media Sosial Facebook pada Komunikasi Interpersonal dalam Keluarga di Desa Pulau Binjai Kabupaten Kuantan Mudik Riau

This research is motivated by advances in communication technology that provide many good benefits in life. In addition to the good benefits, technological advances also have a negative effect on the social environment. The impact of social media makes a person to be indifferent to the people around him, indifferent, inattentive which can change interpersonal communication in the family scope. Changes in interpersonal communication are a life phenomenon experienced by everyone anytime and anywhere, one of which is in the family environment. In this study, the researcher used a qualitative approach with the type of field research. Collecting data through observation, documentation and interviews, and then analyzed descriptively qualitatively. The findings showed that the family's interpersonal communication situation did not go well due to a lack of self-disclosure to their family and lack of empathy, this also resulted in a change in their interpersonal communication behavior. From this study it can be concluded that changes in family interpersonal communication behavior due to the use of online social media have occurred in families in Pulau Binjai Village, Kuantan Mudik District, Kuantan Singingi Regency.

Online brand communication and building brand trust: social information processing theory perspective

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the mechanism of online customer brand trust building through the lens of Walther’s Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) – Social Information Processing Theory (SIPT).Design/methodology/approachThis paper integrates a range of theoretical and empirical works across branding and marketing, including concept of brand trust, use of online social media in brand communication and customer brand relations and CMC-SIPT theory and relational marketing literature other relevant information which were found useful in the given context were reviewed. The aim was to collect a broad spectrum of ideas, based on their relevance to the research purpose to propose effective online brand trust building framework.FindingsThis paper proposes three different developmental stages in brand trust building on online social media networks. Each stage is guided by the components of CMC-SIPT. Stage I is interaction and compliance of the brand communication clues which suggest that the aggregated level of interaction and compliance in online brand communication on social media determine the movement of the customer to the next level. Stage II suggests information processing at three successive layers by the customer as identification, internalization brand information and bonding, which eventually prompt the customer to the next level of brand trust building. Stage III is related to trust building which is the critical stage as customer internal states of arousal are experienced, which reduces the emotional risk of decision-making and increases confidence and trust of the customers in brands.Research limitations/implicationsThe proposed framework of brand trust building has not been tested empirically. Future research could test and validate the proposed model tracking intrinsic changes in the customer in different brand trust development stages. This research is important for marketers or brands who wish to move beyond the notion of merely satisfying customers, to establishing more powerful emotional bonds between their brands and customers. It fills a gap in brand-trust literature and provides marketers and researchers a means to understand and draw strategies for consumers’ attraction toward brands (Patwardhan and Balasubramanian, 2011). The proposed framework has the capacity to revolutionize the way business and brands engage with society by enhancing and establishing trusting relationship.Originality/valueTo date, this research has not been done specifically from the SIPT perspective. This research is the first to examine brand communication strategies in an effort of building brand trust in the context of online social media network from the CMC-Social information theory perspective. It highlights the peculiarities of online brand communication on social media networks and customer information processing in presenting three stages of customer brand trust development to explain the development and flow of events.

Improving fake news detection with domain-adversarial and graph-attention neural network

With the widespread use of online social media, we have witnessed that fake news causes enormous distress and inconvenience to people's social life. Although previous studies have proposed rich machine learning methods for identifying fake news in social media, the task of detecting fake news in emerging news events/domains remains a challenging problem due to the wide range of news topics on social media as well as the evolution and variation of fake news contents in the web. In this study, we propose an approach which we term “domain-adversarial and graph-attention neural network” (DAGA-NN) model to address the challenge. Its main advantage is that, in a text environment with multiple events/domains, only partial domain sample data are needed to train the model to achieve accurate cross-domain fake news detection in those domains with few (or even no) samples, which makes up for the limitations of traditional machine learning in fake news detection tasks due to news content evolution or cross-domain identification (where there is no sample data). Extensive experiments were conducted on two multimedia datasets of Twitter and Weibo, and the results showed that the proposed model was very effective in detecting fake news across events/domains.

Use of Social Media in Doctor–Patient Relationship by Patients in Federal Medical Center, Keffi, North-Central Nigeria

A good doctor–patient relationship (DPR) is important for quality health care delivery. Measures that improve such will improve health outcomes. Online social media (OSM) has become an important part of our lives. The DPR can be improved through OSM by increasing the interaction between the physician and the patient. The aim of our study was to determine the frequency and pattern of use of OSM by patients visiting our clinic. This was a cross-sectional study among 304 patients visiting the medical outpatient department of our hospital between January and July 2019. Patients visiting the clinic were randomly selected and interviewed. The data was analyzed using SPSS 25. 278 (91.4%) out of 304 participants used OSM. Facebook (87.8%) and WhatsApp (86.5%) were used more frequently. The use of OSM was associated with the level of education (p = 0.001). 158 (56.8%) patients had sent friendship requests to their physicians while 242 (87.1%) will like to be friends with their physicians through OSM. 111(39.9%) patients had discussed health issues with a doctor through OSM. 88.8% of the patients agreed that interactions through OSM can improve the DPR. A significant number of these patients will like to interact with their physician through OSM. The DPR can be improved through OSM by increasing access to health information and making access to physicians easier.

Digital Acculturation or Displacement?: Examining the Link Between Social Media and Well-Being

The current study applies digital media and acculturation models to assess the links between offline social connection, online social media use, and well-being. Acculturation research suggests that intercultural contact can create conflict that individuals must resolve using four acculturations strategies: marginalization, separation, assimilation, or integration. It suggests that those who fare best adopt strategies in which they maintain heritage connection, identity and values [e.g., offline, face-to-face (F2F) social connection] while also connecting with people and norms in the new context (i.e., online). The social interaction displacement hypothesis suggests that high media use that displaces in-person social interaction (i.e., assimilation strategy) can lead to poor outcomes. The results from a survey of 60 college students (Mage = 22.02, SD = 3.54; 73.3% female) suggest that individuals who maintain high offline, F2F social interaction (i.e., separation strategy) fared better than those who adopted assimilation or even integrations strategies. The findings have implications for people who spend more time online, perhaps at the expense of in-person socialization, and introduce novel opportunities for the understanding of the link between social media and poor mental health outcomes.

Differential Patterns of Social Media Use Associated with Loneliness and Health Outcomes in Selected Socioeconomic Groups.

Loneliness has emerged as a chronic and persistent problem for a considerable fraction of the general population in the developed world. Concurrently, use of online social media by the same societies has steadily increased over the past two decades. The present study analyzed a recent large country-wide loneliness survey of 20,096 adults in the US using an unsupervised approach for systematic identification of clusters of respondents in terms of their social media use and representation among different socioeconomic subgroups. We studied the underlying population heterogeneity with a computational pipeline that was developed to gain insights into cluster- or group-specific patterns of loneliness. In particular, distributions of high loneliness were observed in groups of female users of Facebook and YouTube of certain age, race, marital, and socioeconomic status. For instance, among the group of predominantly YouTube users, we noted that non-Hispanic white female respondents of age 25–44 years who have high school or less education level and are single or never married have more significant high loneliness distribution. In fact, their high loneliness scores also seem to be associated with self-reported poorer physical and mental health outcomes.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41347-021-00208-4.

INTEGRATED LINKAGES TO THE SUSTAINABILITY OF DINOYO CERAMIC VILLAGE, MALANG

Dinoyo is a ceramic handicraft center in Malang City. The cultural potential of the Dinoyo people, especially ceramic craftsmen, which has survived to this day is one of the fulcrums for cultural preservation efforts. The purpose of this research is to create a marketing strategy, to improve the sustainability of the Dinoyo Ceramic Village both in terms of production and function of the village as a center for literacy and cultural preservation in Malang City and one of them is through the optimization of promotional media to increase sales and support promotional events in Dinoyo Ceramic Village. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative structured interviews. The results showed that the dinoyo ceramic village had not made good use of the marketing strategy so that it needed optimization of online media partnerships and the use of online social media. Thus this research contributes to increasing the competitiveness of dinoyo ceramics in order to improve community welfare.

Online Prostitution Amidst the Rapid Technological Advances: Legal and Social Aspects

Today almost everyone is using the internet, because from the internet we can get all the information easily and quickly. but not everyone knows the dangers of using the internet. because it is not uncommon also someone to commit crimes through the internet (cyber crime). cyber crime is the negative side of technological advances for all areas of modern life that exist today. one of the crimes that can occur through internet access is online prostitution. The online prostitution activity is a negative impact of social media abuse. One effort that can be used to cope with online prostitution activity that occurs is with the approach of criminal law policy through criminal sanctions as a concrete form of criminal responsibility to perpetrators of online prostitution. The disclosure of online prostitution cases proves that social media is a powerful tool for the promotion of prostitution. Such prostitution activity is the effect of unlimited use of online social media. In the absence of a national regulation that regulates this matter, online prostitution users will feel secure and liberal in purchasing services for their own satisfaction, while in fact it is contrary to legal norms in society.

Country Differences in Social Comparison on Social Media

Social comparison is a common focus in discussions of online social media use, and differences in its frequency, causes, and outcomes may arise from country or cultural differences. To understand how these differences play a role in experiences of social comparison on Facebook, a survey of 37,729 people across 18 countries was paired with respondents' activity on Facebook. The findings were augmented with 39 in-person interviews in three countries. Social comparison frequency was more strongly predicted by country than by age, gender, and Facebook activity combined, indicating that country differences are important to consider when studying social comparison. Women's and men's experiences differed greatly between countries. Exposure to high feedback counts on friends' posts was associated with more frequent social comparison, but only in some countries. Design interventions that account for such country differences may be more effective at reducing the negative outcomes of social comparison.

Bonding, bridging, and linking social capital and social media use: How hyperlocal social media platforms serve as a conduit to access and activate bridging and linking ties in a time of crisis

Social media is changing the narrative during crisis events. It has facilitated citizen-led emergency dispatch and rescue, information sharing and communication between loved ones in the moments before, during and after a disaster. Researchers of social capital have found that bonding, bridging, and linking social capital can lead to resilient outcomes. With increased use of social media on a day-to-day basis and during a crisis, we still know little about the association between social capital and online social media use. Controlling for demographic characteristics and earthquake intensity, I investigate the association bonding, bridging and linking social capital and hyperlocal social media use following the earthquake and its aftershocks. Using a quantitative cross-sectional longitudinal study across 121 Nextdoor online neighborhoods in California’s Napa Valley region across 42 days in August and September of 2014 (N = 3570), I find that bridging and linking social capital led to more online communication via Nextdoor. This finding comes with an important implication, namely, that social media can serve as a primary source of recourse for individuals and communities following a disaster. Social media platforms provide a conduit for accessing and activating bridging and linking ties that can expedite collective action in a time of need. Communities should consider policies that increase levels of social capital, well as social media platforms that can activate social ties when they are needed most.

Social Media Addiction and Empathy: Moderating impact of personality traits among high school students

Potential addiction to social media is one of the problems that some people, especially adolescents, are facing. For this reason, many studies have been conducted in this field in recent years. There is no research investigating how empathy is associated with excessive and problematic online social media use, whilst some studies have associated social media use with empathy as the main component of social development. Hence, the purpose of this study is to examine the influences of Empathic Concern (EC) and Perspective Taking (PT) on social media addiction (SMA). Moreover, prior studies revealed that Internet addiction behavior of individuals varies according to differences in personality traits. Accordingly, we further intend to understand how the impacts of EC and PT on SMA are intensified by considering individuals’ traits differences, and thus, personality traits were included in the research model as the moderators. To assess the research model, the data collected through the distributed printed questionnaire among 592 high-school 15–18 years old students (42.1% male) were analyzed utilizing the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach. The results revealed that both EC and PT significantly and negatively predict SMA. Furthermore, the moderating analysis showed that Extraversion negatively moderated the relationships between EC and SMA and PT and SMA. Further analysis revealed that while there were no differences across genders, behaviors associated with SMA were more common among students of high-income schools in contrast to low-income schools. Implications of the study are further discussed.