Social Online Research Articles

Peningkatan Kepatuhan Pajak Melalui Sosialisasi Perpajakan kepada Komunitas Bisnis Multi-Level Marketing Minyak Aroma Terapi di Yogyakarta

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of tax socialization in improving tax compliance among the multi-level marketing (MLM) business community of aromatherapy oil in Yogyakarta. The research employs a qualitative approach using in-depth interviews, direct observation, and documentation methods. The results indicate that despite high participant enthusiasm, there is a gap in tax compliance. Out of 25 participants, 5 individuals did not possess a Taxpayer Identification Number (NPWP), while 15 out of 20 participants with an NPWP had not reported their MLM income. Limited understanding of tax administrative obligations emerged as a key factor. The tax socialization methods employed, including face-to-face and online approaches, had their respective advantages and drawbacks. Face-to-face socialization was perceived as more interactive, whereas online socialization offered flexibility. This study recommends more intensive educational approaches and follow-up mentoring programs to assist participants in comprehending and fulfilling their tax obligations correctly. These findings are expected to serve as a reference for the government and tax authorities in designing more effective tax socialization strategies to enhance tax compliance, particularly among small and medium-sized enterprise segments

Self-Diagnosed Cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder on Social Media: Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment.

Recent global popularity of social media content about dissociative identity disorder (DID) has coincided with increased self-diagnosis among children and young people who have formed large online communities and presented in clinical settings seeking to affirm their self-diagnoses. We situate this phenomenon within a broader trend toward self-diagnosis due to the widespread visibility and accessibility of mental health content on social media. Social media propelled self-diagnosis raises particular questions for the study and treatment of DID due to long-standing debates over whether the condition is traumagenic, sociogenic, or iatrogenic. This paper draws from the current state of knowledge about psychiatric self-diagnosis, the influence of social media on youth mental health, and the authors' clinical experience to present preliminary conceptualizations of DID self-diagnosis and its significance for clinical practice. Established etiological models for DID acknowledge the role of sociocultural and contextual factors in shaping and reinforcing the elaboration of DID self-states. We hypothesize that multiple forms of online sociality and interaction encourage such elaborations. Social media content regarding DID, however, is routinely unreliable and low quality, often mischaracterizing the condition's symptoms and minimizing associated suffering and disability. This paper considers the likelihood that the self-diagnosing DID cohort includes genuine, genuine but exaggerated, imitative, and malingering cases, and underscores the importance of careful and personalized assessment and diagnosis.

Late Bedtime from the Perspective of Adolescents: A Qualitative Study.

Later sleep timing is a key determinant of reduced sleep duration and quality in adolescents and is associated with negative mental and physical outcomes. However, little is known about adolescents' views on late bedtime. The study's purpose is to explore adolescents' perspectives on why they go to sleep late during school nights and what would help them to go to bed earlier. We conducted online semi-structured interviews with 24 adolescents aged 14-17 years as a part of the international HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children) study. The data were collected via individual and group interviews and analyzed using a combination of consensual qualitative research methodology and thematic analysis. School demands and leisure time activities, particularly online socialization with peers, have been identified as one of the main themes related to why adolescents go to sleep late. Adolescents reported difficulties managing these competing activities during the day after school, often postponing them until late at night and prioritizing them to sleep. Adolescents also mentioned bedtime distress as a barrier to falling asleep. However, some adolescents did not perceive late bedtime as a problem, but rather as a habit and personal choice. They reported that better time management, less homework, engagement in physical activity, parent-set bedtime, and less time spent online in the evening would help them to go to bed earlier. Our findings suggest that interventions to improve sleep timing in adolescents should focus on reducing school pressure, building supportive social networks; strengthening adolescents' self-regulation skills; and enhancing parental involvement in establishing sleep and daily routines for their adolescents.

How do emoticons affect youth social interaction? The impact of emoticon use on youths online interpersonal interactions

Emoticons are non-verbal symbols that are employed during online interactions, and they constitute an integral component of online interpersonal communication. The influence of emoticons on the online interpersonal interactions of young people was investigated through in-depth interviews with 25 young people who utilize emoticons to a moderate or significant extent. The study identified three key aspects through which the impact of emoticons on youth’s online social interactions is manifested. Firstly, this is reflected in the level of emotion and meaning conveyed. The utilization of emoticons by young people has, to a certain extent, rectified the contextual limitation of “embodied absence” in online virtual social interaction. Secondly, this is reflected in young people’s recognition of emoticons. The use of emoticons by young people in online social interactions has led to the formation of a distinct “emoticon community.” This phenomenon not only facilitates the development of a more profound social identity among young people in online social interactions but also contributes to the expansion of the adolescent network, resulting in the emergence of a novel “social divide.” Thirdly, the use of emoticons by young people can be seen to contribute to a sense of alienation. As young people become increasingly reliant on emoticons, their influence is gradually extending from the digital realm to the physical world, impacting the normal social interactions of young people in real life. Emoticons have gradually become a means of facilitating young people’s online socialization, but they have also had the unintended consequence of limiting their normal social interaction. The deterioration of online interpersonal communication among young people is a key factor in the symbolic generalization and alienation of expression in the use of emoticons by this demographic.

The Dynamics of Using Euphemisms Related to Sexual Activity in Indonesian Online Social Media

This paper aims to explore the dynamics of using euphemisms related to sexual activity in Indonesian online social media reporting from 2022 to 2024. The unit of analysis consists of sentences containing expressions referring to sexual activity bersetubuh ‘intercourse’. The results show that reporting on topics related to sexual activity in Indonesian online social media is dominated by the use of dysphemism rather than euphemism. In this context, the dysphemistic style is realized through five linguistic mechanisms, resulting in 48 (56.4%) patterns or variations of expressions. The euphemistic style is realized through four linguistic mechanisms, resulting in 32 (27.2%) patterns or variations of expressions. Meanwhile, the orthophemistic style is realized through two linguistic mechanisms, resulting in 5 (5.8%) patterns or variations of expressions. This indicates that the drive for politeness in reporting taboo sexual topics is outweighed by the urge to show a highly critical attitude towards unlawful sexual acts, in addition to sensational motives. The orthophemistic style is also used to reveal the actual (unambiguous) events.

NexoNet: Blockchain Online Social Media with User-Centric Multiple Incentive Mechanism and PoAP Consensus Mechanism

Online social media (OSM) has revolutionized the manner in which communication unfolds, enabling users to spontaneously generate, disseminate, share, and aggregate multimedia data across the internet. Nevertheless, in this exchange of information, OSM platforms assume a dominant, central role, wielding excessive power. Blockchain online social media (BOSM) seeks to mitigate the drawbacks of traditional centralized OSM by leveraging the decentralized nature of blockchain technology, migrating the functionalities of social media into a decentralized realm, and positioning the users at the core of the OSM ecosystem. However, current BOSM models often rely on tokens for incentives and are hampered by the centralized, inefficient blockchain consensus mechanisms, alongside vulnerabilities such as collusion attacks. This paper introduces a novel blockchain system, NexoNet, tailored for decentralized social media, exploring the application of blockchain technology in the realm of online social media from both technical and economic perspectives. The NexoNet quantifies and evaluates user participation within the system, employing a multiple incentive mechanism to equitably distribute value created by users without the need for tokens. Furthermore, we propose the Proof-of-Active-Participation (PoAP) blockchain consensus mechanism, enabling all users to partake in the maintenance of the blockchain system, thus ensuring its security and efficiency. Theoretical analysis and simulations across various scenarios demonstrate that the NexoNet, with extensive user engagement, achieves equitable value distribution through its multiple incentive mechanism. It successfully safeguards against a spectrum of malicious attacks and attains high transaction processing efficiency. The simulation results show that NexoNet achieves an average transaction throughput of 2000 transactions per second (TPS) and a consensus delay of 2.385 s with 100 maintainers in the network. Furthermore, our tests demonstrated that even collusion with users comprising 75% of the total would only allow an additional 30 chances to propose a block. By deeply integrating user behavior with the underlying mechanisms of the blockchain system, the NexoNet fosters a user-centric blockchain social media ecosystem.

Patterns of depression symptoms in relation to stressors and social behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic among older youth and emerging adults in the United States.

Substantial increases in depression at the outset of the pandemic were previously reported in NCANDA, a longitudinal sample of adolescents and young adults. The current NCANDA study examined depression symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It evaluated the influence of stressors and social behavior (e.g., in-person and online socializing) with linear mixed effects models. A strong, positive association between COVID-19-related stressors and depression symptoms was observed. The frequency of in-person socializing did not account for the totality of the changes in depression observed during the early COVID-19 pandemic. It may be that pandemic-related stressors counteracted the benefits of in-person interactions during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Future studies can continue to elucidate the interactions among psychosocial, genetic, and behavioral factors contributing to depression symptoms in the unprecedented context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Internet usage time and trust in doctors: evidence from China

BackgroundThe growth of internet use has greatly impacted many societal sectors, including healthcare. However, current evidence about the relationship between internet usage time and public trust on doctors is insufficient.ObjectiveTo examine the relationship between the time spent on the internet and the level of trust in doctors, and explore its mechanism.MethodsMultiple regression models are employed, utilizing a sample of 19,193 observations from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) in 2020. First, we regress the relative trust in doctors compared to trust in strangers on internet usage time. Subsample results across distinct population groups are explored. Second, we examine the mechanism of using the internet as an information channel through the mediation method, and further investigate the role of the internet as a communication platform by analyzing the moderation effects of socializing activity as well as social media engagement.ResultsWe find a significant negative relationship between increased internet usage time and trust in doctors. This correlation remains robust across different model specifications and variable measurements. The negative correlation is more pronounced among population groups who are elderly, male, married, with low educational levels, insured and residing in urban areas. The role of the internet as a source of information is validated as a mechanism producing the negative influence. The role of the internet as a communication platform tends to mitigate the negative consequences of internet usage, as engaging in online socializing activity can have a positive moderation effect. However, for social media engagement, its overall effect on trust in doctors is negative, potentially due to social media’s dual function as a communication platform and an information source.ConclusionsAlthough individual-focused literature tends to demonstrate a positive impact of the internet on trust in doctors in China, our study, which focuses on the general public, reveals contrasting results. Our findings imply that the primary manner in which internet usage, encompassing social media usage, influences public trust in doctors is by molding a collective perception of them. Consequently, the medical community may need to take a more proactive approach in expanding online communication channels for interacting with patients and the wider public.

Social Media Use among University Students Impact on Socialization

The rapid increase in internet usage worldwide has significantly impacted various aspects of life, with social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram becoming integral parts of daily life, especially among younger generations. Social media's influence extends into educational, social, cultural, and political spheres, transforming how individuals interact and communicate. It provides students with tools to engage with peers and educators, potentially enhancing their socialization and educational experiences. This study explored the relationship between using various social media applications, online community participation, information-seeking, and socialization of BS students at public sector universities in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJ&K). Using a proportionate random sampling technique, 300 students were selected from three public universities of AJ&K. The data was collected through a structured questionnaire survey that allowed for the systematic gathering of responses, ensuring consistency across the sample. The data was analysed using statistical analysis. The findings revealed no substantial relationship between social media use and socialization among university students in this region. An important implication of the findings of this study might be that contrary to common assumptions, social media might play a minor role in these students’ socialization process. However, caution is needed regarding the generalization of the findings, and further studies using triangulation-based designs need to be conducted to have further insights into this topic.

Relationship Among Elementary and Secondary School Students’ Social Achievement Goals, Online and Offline Social Behaviors, and Social Satisfaction

Relationship Among Elementary and Secondary School Students’ Social Achievement Goals, Online and Offline Social Behaviors, and Social Satisfaction

Mental health in postgraduate medicine: an urgency in the systematization of strategies

Several studies about mental health report a higher illness prevalence in physicians than in general population. Mental health Illness is multifactorial, and its negative consequences range from stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, somatic manifestation to suicide. Health professionals are educators and know the importance of creating and training compassionate and competent physicians. The aim of this study was to describe mental health strategies in postgraduate doctors. Out of a total of 494 articles, only 9 were analyzed which mentioned some strategy for mental health improvement, such as diffusion, timely detection of mental health conditions, in-person or online training, integral care, support groups, socialization, pairing, physical activity, follow-up and support, reinforcement of institutional norms and values, including strategies from the Puebla Decentralized Administrative Operating Body. The strategies implemented in the optimization of mental health in trainee doctors increase resilience and optimism while simultaneously reduce the prevalence of mental health conditions. In addition, they provide the necessary tools for self-care. The Mexican Institute for Social Security (IMSS, according to its initialism in Spanish) is aware of this, which is why it systematizes the different strategies.

Influence and mechanisms of perceived information disclosure in shaping public attitudes towards waste disposal facilities: Evidence from China

Waste disposal facilities are an indispensable infrastructure for modern urban development, and increasing public acceptance of such facilities contributes to sustainable urban development. Estimation results using the least squares method, based on widely representative questionnaire data, indicate that perception of government information disclosure has a significant positive impact on enhancing the public’s willingness to accept waste disposal facilities. This finding is further confirmed not only when using instrumental variables approach to address potential endogeneity as well, but also by a series of robustness tests. The results of the heterogeneity analyses show that the positive impact of government information disclosure is present only in the sub-sample of those who have no religious trust and frequency of online socialization. Further findings support the idea that political trust and the perception of the government capacity to ensure public security are two fundamental mechanisms. In particular, trust in county government and perceptions of medical security are more likely to drive this positive effect. This study reveals the role of perceptions about information disclosure in shaping public attitudes toward public programs and provides new insights into facilitating the successful construction of public facilities.

Apprehending digital hostility and online abuse: Feminist care ethics in/and digital ecologies

The experience of digital platforms in the 2020s is often marked by a lack of ethical care: increasing rates of online abuse, trolling and adversarial speech in many cases lead to harmful outcomes including suicidality. Underlying the ineffectiveness of extant regulation and platform policy has been a significant focus on users as individuals rather than as participants in a digital ecology with ethical responsibilities for the care of the other. Addressing these harms calls for cultural change in how we perceive interactive communication, digital use, bodies and subjectivity. This paper asks what a feminist approach might contribute to the framing of improved online communication and the detoxification of the digital ecology. Drawing on recent work on non-violence by Judith Butler and approaches to ecologies and infrastructure by Lauren Berlant, the paper proposes an ethics of mutual care in communication, recognising communication and interactivity and online sociality as an a priori factor of liveable human lives.

Research on "Stealth Socialization" and "Persona" Construction of Youth Groups under the Perspective of Communication Psychology

Under the background of increasingly prosperous social media, online socialization has gradually become an important way of socializing between people. Compared with the traditional "face-to-face" socialization, online socialization is favored by young people because of its invisibility, convenience and other outstanding advantages. The "invisibility" behind the anonymization of the network allows young people to immerse themselves in multiple role-plays on the network platform, realize the presentation of their self-image, and form a unique digital identity construction, and the phenomenon of "social anxiety on the network" has gradually come to the forefront, and poses a challenge to the creation of a harmonious social environment. The phenomenon of "online social anxiety" is gradually emerging and poses a challenge to the creation of a harmonious social environment. The reason why "stealth" has become a social phenomenon cannot be separated from the promotion of economic and social, cultural and psychological conditions. In this paper, we intend to interpret the psychological motivation behind "stealth" from the perspective of communication psychology, combining Maslow's need theory and classical communication theories such as compensation psychology, herd psychology, social anxiety, etc., and taking the social content of microblogging as the research object.

Manufacture of Intimacy and Boundary Reconstruction: Analysis of Social Fatigue Behavior among Z-Generation Users on Xiaohongshu

In a mediated society, Z-generation users tend to engage more in online socializing, giving rise to "companion socializing." This study focuses on Z-generation users on the Xiaohongshu platform, exploring the reasons for the formation of "companion socializing" from four dimensions: emotional, demand, technical, and media usage. The research finds that "finding companions" is highly popular among young Z-generation users, satisfying their emotional needs and boundary reconstruction, forming social belonging and resonance within circles, and to some extent alleviating social media fatigue emotions.

Relationship and mechanisms between internet use and physical exercise among middle- and younger-aged groups.

The "Internet Plus" era has established a closer connection between sports and individuals. This study used data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies and focused on the middle- and younger-aged population aged 15 to 59 years. Employing a negative binomial regression model, this study empirically analyzed the impact of Internet use on physical exercise and its internal mechanisms among this population. The findings revealed that (1) Internet use significantly promoted physical exercise in the middle- and younger-aged population, with the frequency of physical exercise increasing to 1.549 times the original value; (2) The positive effects of the internet on physical exercise outweighed the negative effects, with online learning and entertainment enhancing physical exercise and online socialization limiting it. Specifically, online learning and entertainment increased the frequency of physical exercise among the middle- and younger-aged population by 0.063 and 0.018, respectively. Online socialization reduced the frequency by 0.023; and (3) The influence of internet use on physical exercise varies; significantly, it positively affects the exercise frequency among individuals over 35 years old and shows a positive correlation with employment status, including both employed individuals and those out of the labor market. The positive role of Internet use in encouraging physical exercise participation among the middle- and young-aged groups should be valued and enhanced.

Social Opportunity Structures in Hacktivism: Exploring Online and Offline Social Ties and the Role of Offender Convergence Settings in Hacktivist Networks

ABSTRACT Hacktivism represents the promotion in the cyber landscape of ideologically motivated agendas using hacking techniques. Despite research on the topic has provided some clues on how hacktivist networks develop, the processes behind their evolution remain mostly unknown. This gap in the literature prompted us to research the role of online/offline social relationships and of the offender convergence settings in the creation, recruitment process and development of hacktivist networks. This study is based on 30 interviews with hacktivists, and it uses the social opportunity structures framework to analyze the development of 21 hacktivist networks. The results show that said networks can be divided in sub-categories based on the type of connections used to create them. Online social relationships and online convergence settings (particularly social media platforms and IRC channels) seem to play a key role in the development of hacktivist networks, while offline contacts are limited. For the recruitment process, hacktivists use comparable strategies to any organization, but three different categories were identified when discussing the level of sophistication applied to the selection of new candidates.

Discrepancy in Uses and Gratifications for Smartphone and their Effects on Online Socialization Patterns among University Youth

Discrepancy in Uses and Gratifications for Smartphone and their Effects on Online Socialization Patterns among University Youth

The Influence of Social Media on Seventh Grade Students' Happiness

The rapid increase in social media use among young people has raised concerns about its impact on their psychosocial attributes. This study examines the effects of social media engagement on Grade 7 students psychosocial attributes at Guisguis National High School, highlighting the relationship between social media use and aspects like interpersonal relationships and life satisfaction. Employing the descriptive research method, data was collected through self - report questionnaires, and a modified survey was utilized for assessment. The study reveals that Grade 7 learners exhibit a moderate level of understanding and responsibility in their social media usage. The learners demonstrate a high level of interpersonal relationship skills, life satisfaction, responsible online socialization, and positive social interaction. Findings suggest a positive correlation between responsible social media engagement and psychosocial well - being, underscoring the importance of fostering healthy digital habits among young learners The findings hold implications for learners, teachers, and the school community in understanding the effects of social media use on psychosocial well - being and in developing guidelines to protect learners' mental health while benefiting from social media platforms.

Fostering Digital Innovation and Sustainable SMEs: The Complementary Roles of Offline and Online Social Capital

Fostering Digital Innovation and Sustainable SMEs: The Complementary Roles of Offline and Online Social Capital