Social Media Interface Research Articles

Foundations for Enabling People to Recognise Misinformation in Social Media News based on Retracted Science

For many people, social media is an important way to consume news on important topics like health. Unfortunately, some influential health news is misinformation because it is based on retracted scientific work. Ours is the first work to explore how people can understand this form of misinformation and how an augmented social media interface can enable them to make use of information about retraction. We report a between-subjects think-aloud study with 44 participants, where the experimental group used our augmented interface. Our results indicate that this helped them consider retraction when judging the credibility of news. Our key contributions are foundational insights for tackling the problem, revealing the interplay between people's understanding of scientific retraction, their prior beliefs about a topic and the way they use a social media interface that provides access to retraction information.

Gaze movement analysis examined how people view and interact with health information on Facebook pages.

Gaze movement analysis is a human-computer interaction analysis method to assess time and viewing patterns of screen pages. This study examines Facebook users' health information viewing patterns and identifies social media interface factors that affect users' health information behaviour on Facebook. The findings of this study should help researchers and health information providers understand how Facebook is used, and how users might be appraising information viewed. This study investigated gaze movement data collected from 48 participants while participants were viewing Facebook pages that presented health-related posts. Each session was designed to represent four health information sources and four health topics. Each session included an exit interview for a better interpretation of data. Participants spent the most time viewing the content of the posts, particularly post images. Findings revealed that users' viewing patterns differed when different health topics were presented, but not according to the type of information provider. However, the study showed that users check the Facebook page's banner to verify the health information provider's identity. This study indicates what health information consumers look for on Facebook when finding, appraising, and reacting to, or sharing health-related content.

Communication and Crisis Information Campaigns: Perspectives of Constructivism, Conspiracy and Misinformation of Coivid-19 messages in West Africa

The research centers on crisis communication, mass media campaigns, with emphasis on constructivism, conspiracy and misinformation in two West African countries in the corona virus pandemic. The setting is Nigeria and Camerouns, two typical African countries. The objectives were to find out the main media of information from the government, the major theme of covid 19 messages, the perception about covid 19 messages by Africans. The study adopted the ex post facto survey method with a population of 6,269,945 and a sample size of 600 persons. The research applied the media constructivism and information manipulation theories. Findings revealed that 84% of the respondents got covid 19 messages from traditional media of , group meetings, radio and television rather than from social media interface with government agencies. Data further revealed that 96 % of the residents accepted the message of covid 19 control of hand washing more than on social distancing and face-masking. Responses indicated that 81 % of the residents regarded covid 19 messages as mere romours, fake media propaganda and anti – religious campaign from the government. Recommendations are: government should adopt regular group discussions and social media to conveying vital messages rather than reliance on transient old information sources. Additionally, messages must be motivating, convincing and persuasive to influence positive attitude.

Customer Perceived Value of Social Media Interface: An Exploration of Factors and Model Testing Using CFA

Customer perceived value is one the most extensively studied concept in modern marketing literature. This study is an attempt to develop a conceptual model measuring customer perceived value of social media interfaces (Facebook pages, Twitter handles, etc.) of brands. Various variables that could impact customer perceived value are explored, factors are extracted using factor analysis, and the conceptual model is tested using confirmatory factor analysis. The study identifies five factors, namely trustworthiness of social media interface (online trust), company personnel handling social media interface, developing relationships, being heard or staying connected, and seeking the information as factors that contribute to perceived customer value while considering social media interface of brands. A detailed structured questionnaire was developed to measure the constructs later analyzed using CFA technique. The results of the study support the proposed theoretical model. In particular, the study identified dimensions of customer perceived value for the social media interface of the brands.

Hypercane

In the Dark and Stormy Archives (DSA) project, we focus on storytelling techniques to summarize collections of archived web pages. Since collections can have hundreds or even thousands of seeds (initial URLs) and each seed can be recrawled many times, with each version separately maintained, techniques that include information about all members of the collection can be overwhelming. The premise of storytelling is to focus on sampling exemplar pages from the collection, and present them in a social media interface familiar to users. We present Hypercane , the tool in the DSA suite responsible for selecting exemplar pages. Hypercane offers eight action statements that can be combined in various ways to customize the sample that is produced. Because of its modular design, Hypercane can also be used to analyze large web archive collections outside of the DSA suite.

Toward a conceptual framework for social media adoption by non-urban communities for non-profit activities: Insights from an integration of grand theories of technology acceptance

This paper describes perceptions of social media as a communication tool and source of information for non-profit activities in non-urban communities. It proposes a conceptual framework predicated on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology and the information systems success model as theoretical lenses and suggests that four key factors influence the intentions of non-urban communities to adopt and use social media for communication and information of non-profit activities: performance expectancy (i.e. perception of the benefits of using non-profits’ social media to enhance performance), effort expectancy (i.e. perception of how easy it will be to use non-profits’ social media), social conditions (i.e. expectation of others in non-urban communities to use non-profits’ social media), and facilitating conditions (i.e. access to resources and technology as well as self-efficacy with respect to use of non-profits’ social media). It also suggests that three key enablers allow non-profits to leverage those key factors: information quality (i.e. quality of information about non-profit activities), system quality (i.e. quality of social media interface and technology used by non-profits), and service quality (i.e. quality of interactions between representatives of non-profits and non-urban communities on social media). Further empirical testing to validate the conceptual framework, using a non-urban community sample, and strategic investments in key enablers and determinants of high impact and significance should help non-profits to develop effective social media strategies to widen their reach to and in non-urban communities.

TRANSLATION NORMS OF NEOLOGISM IN SOCIAL MEDIA INTERFACE

Social media interface has been translated into a variety of languages, including Indonesian. This research aims to identify dominant types of neologisms found in social media interface, describe translation procedures applied by translators in translating neologisms and translation norms in neologism translation. This research is qualitative research that was conducted by applying Newmark’s neologism typology and translation procedures (1988) and Toury’s concept of translation norms (1995). The results showed that 1) existing lexical items with new sense (words) is a type of neologism dominantly found in an interface, 2) transference, couplets and through translation are dominant procedures applied by translators which become norms in translating neologism in social media interface. It can be concluded that neologisms found in social media interface have not had equivalents in Indonesian and neologisms cannot be translated since they are terms or jargons used in social media interface.

Using Thermal Stimuli to Enhance Photo-Sharing in Social Media

Limited work has been undertaken to show how the emotive ability of thermal stimuli can be used for interaction purposes. One potential application area is using thermal stimuli to influence emotions in images shared online such as social media platforms. This paper presents a two-part study, which examines how the documented emotive property of thermal stimuli can be applied to enhance social media images. Participants in part-one supplied images from their personal collection or social media profiles, and were asked to augment each image with thermal stimuli based on the emotions they wanted to enhance or reduce. Part-one participants were interviewed to understand the effects they wanted augmented images to have. In part-two, these augmented images were perceived by a different set of participants in a simulated social media interface. Results showed strong agreement between the emotions augmented images were designed to evoke and the emotions they actually evoked as perceived by part-two participants. Participants in part-one selected thermal stimuli augmentation intended to modulate valence and arousal in images as a way of enhancing the realism of the images augmented. Part-two results indicate this was achieved as participants perceived thermal stimuli augmentation reduced valence in negative images and modulated valence and arousal in positive images.

Designing Crowdcritique Systems for Formative Feedback

Intelligent tutors based on expert systems often struggle to provide formative feedback on complex, ill-defined problems where answers are unknown. Hybrid crowdsourcing systems that combine the intelligence of multiple novices in face-to-face settings might provide an alternate approach for providing intelligent formative feedback. The purpose of this study was to develop empirically grounded design principles for crowdcritique systems that provide intelligent formative feedback on complex, ill-defined problems. In this design research project, we iteratively developed and tested a crowdcritique system through 3 studies of 43 novice problem solvers in 3 formal and informal learning environments. We collected observations, interviews, and surveys and used a grounded theory approach to develop and test socio-technical design principles for crowdcritique systems. The project found that to provide formative feedback on ill-defined problems, crowdcritique systems should provide a combination of technical features including: quick invite tools; formative framing; a public, near-synchronous social media interface; critique scaffolds; “like” system; community hashtags; analysis tools and “to do” lists; along with social practices including: prep/write-first/write-last script and critique training. Such a system creates a dual-channel conversation that increases the volume of quality critique by grounding comments, scaffolding and recording critique, and reducing production blocking. Such a design provides the benefits of both face-to-face critique and computer-support in both formal and informal learning environments while reducing the orchestration burden on instructors.

Regulation of Social Media Interface

The advent of information – communication – technology (ICT) brought the invention of new technologies that made available platforms enabling people to communicate and share information in real-time between cities, countries, and even continents. What used to be “a static pool of information to be called up by people who use it has evolved more specifically into a bi-directional communication tool in which creativity and opportunities are limitless. This trend is spearheaded by a young, trained, and innovative generation who are no longer content to communicate through e-mails and phone text, but view the internet as part of their everyday life, no longer a high-end technology”. The platform referred to is the Social Media. The social media can be defined as “a set of online technologies sites and practices which are used to share opinions, experiences, and perspective”. As a result of the rampant abuse of the social media, there have been calls by individuals and government personalities for the regulation of the platform. These calls in turn have resulted in vehement and vocal disapproval by social media users who feel that their right to freedom of expression is sought to be tightened by the government. The paper employing to a large extent, secondary sources seeks to address the issue of social media regulation, answering the following questions: what type of regulation is required? Can the social media be regulated? What are the implications of such regulation? And is regulation necessary? The paper amongst others found that there was no consensus as to what should be defined as regulation; that establishments and multi-corporations have decided not to leave the matter of social media regulation to fate but to self-implement what is known as the Social Media Policy amongst its employees. The paper recommends that Nigeria could borrow a leaf from the EU and perhaps adopt the EU Data Protection Regulation to regulate social media in Nigeria.

Sistem Aplikasi Location Based Service untuk Pengembangan Kota Cerdas

One way to accomplish the smart city is by utilizing application that build interaction between society and the government while providing the benefits to all stakeholders. This application systems should be reached easily and relatively cheap for the society, and they can be used anytime, anywhere. This paper describes how to develop applications that implement the Location Based Services (LBS) for Development of Smart City to build the Public Complaints Service Application System (PCSAS). The PCSAS was designed, built and then tested. This PCSAS was built with Web-based Client-Server architecture. On the client side using a web interface or mobile with Android operating system. This application uses a valid e-mail as a condition of enrollment, while accommodating Social Media interface particularly Facebook and Twitter to get into the system. The result of the use of this application system was an interaction between the community and the government in handling public complaints. Location information problems in the field may soon be known precisely by coordinates, so that the handling can be done quickly and with sufficient preparation equipment based on the information of the real conditions in the field in the form of photos and videos that are included in the complaint.

Redefining privacy and anonymity through social networking affordances

Social networking sites allow people to create, broadcast, and interpret the self in new and evolving ways. While early online social media studies praised the Internet for providing an anonymous space in which to experiment with identity, more recent research suggests that social networking sites have become not anonymous, as they compel users to perform identity in new ways. Through a novel application of affordance theory, this paper argues that instead of attempting to apply outdated definitions of privacy to social networking spaces, we should instead be discussing our right to anonymity. I argue that privacy is immaterial due to the fact that from the moment we log in and interact with a social media interface, we have shared some type of personal information with someone. Anonymity, on the other hand, is defined as the unlinkability of our many identifications. Thus, instead of attempting to define ideas such as “personal” and “private,” we should instead fight for the separation of selves, both at the social and institutional level.

Anonymity in Social Media: Effects of Content Controversiality and Social Endorsement on Sharing Behavior

The amount of information shared via social media is rapidly increasing amid growing concerns over online privacy. This study investigates the effect of controversiality and social endorsement of media content on sharing behavior when choosing between sharing publicly or anonymously. Anonymous sharing is found to be a popular choice (59% of shares), especially for controversial content which is 3.2x more likely to be shard anonymously. Social endorsement was not found to affect sharing behavior, except for sports-related content. Implications for social media interface design are discussed.

Preliminary Experience With Social Media for Community Consultation and Public Disclosure in Exception From Informed Consent Trials

Each year in the United States, >300 000 individuals suffer cardiopulmonary arrest and >2 000 000 suffer a serious traumatic injury requiring hospitalization.1,2 Clinical advances in these fields have been limited because of the paucity of scientific evidence guiding resuscitation practices. Prospective clinical trials are important for advancing the knowledge base in these areas, but because of the emergent nature of these conditions and the inability of critically ill subjects to provide informed consent, investigators must often conduct clinical trials of cardiac arrest and trauma under federal regulations for Exception From Informed Consent (EFIC).3 Editorial see p 206 The US Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration have issued guidelines for the execution of clinical studies using the EFIC process.3 One of the key steps for EFIC research is community consultation and public disclosure (CC/PD), a process that connotes consultation between the investigative team, the appropriate institutional review boards, representatives of the communities where the research will be conducted, and communities likely to have the condition. However, the regulations provide little guidance on how to accomplish these key goals. Although traditional methods for CC/PD include public meetings and telephone-based surveys, the ability of these modalities to access the target populations, to effectively deliver information, and to elicit useful feedback remains unclear.4 Internet-based social media has emerged as a popular and powerful new modality for communication internationally. The objective of this study was to describe our preliminary experience using social media to facilitate the CC/PD process for cardiopulmonary arrest and trauma trials using EFIC. ### Study Design The activities for this study, including the use of social media for CC/PD, were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. We devised a social media interface to facilitate the CC/PD process for …