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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Facebook users"”.
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A measurement of self-esteem and social comparison among Facebook users
… study examines the social networking website, Facebook and uses an experimental design to determine the relationship between two variables: self-esteem and social comparison. The study also examines the relationship between the variables of identification and similarity as a process of social …
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Gender Performance and Social Media Platforms: Identity Presentation among Facebook Users in Iraq
… of social network sites, and particularly the Facebook platform to determine the potential challenges and opportunities that this offers when they construct their online identities and use social media in their daily interactions. The study mainly investigates the issues of negotiating and …
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Online Usage Among College Students: A Comparison of Online Gaming and Facebook Users
… and perceived consequences of online gaming and Facebook. In Study 1, 38 male and 31 female participants completed measures examining online gaming usage, whereas Study 2 included 24 male and 75 female participants who were asked to complete measures examining Facebook usage. Study 1 results …
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Activism via Social Networking: A case study of Urban Indian Women Facebook Users
… are active on the Internet and use SNSs (such as Facebook) to promote causes and garner support for issues as varied as feminine sexuality, health and social agency. SNS, perhaps for the first time in the history of communication technology, is a communication tool that is used as extensively by …
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How to make Facebook your friend: queer self-presentation on a heteronormative social network site.
… self-presentation on the social network site, Facebook, emphasizing gendered functionality, gender and queer politics and presentations of gendered identities. It provides a review of early critical cyberculture studies, identity performance and queer theoretical considerations. This study is …
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Identity motives : influences of multiple motives on cognitive and behavioural dimensions of Facebook identity construction
… features that define these online platforms. On Facebook, Profile allows users to build a personal profile that consists of user-supplied content. Considering the feature of social connection, Facebook News Feed is an interface on which users can see other users’ activities and then interact with …
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The Construction of Candidate’s Political Image on Social Media: A Thematic Analysis of Facebook Comments in the 2014 Presidential Election in Indonesia
… presidential election from the perspective of Facebook users. I analyzed Facebook users’ comments derived from one of the candidate’s Facebook pages, Prabowo Subianto, by employing a thematic analysis to examine an official posting’s comments on June 19, 2014 where a group of celebrities …
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TONGS: TLDR; Opinion Network Guide System
… generated every minute. For example, Twitter users post their current emotions in tweets, while Facebook users vent about their experience in posts. In just one minute, Twitter users upload 350,000 tweets, and Facebook users post anywhere from 2.5 million to 3 million posts. To keep up with …
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Facebook as a disruptor of journalism and political debate in Vietnam
… digital authoritarianism’ in the Vietnamese Facebook environment. It examines how Facebook is disrupting the situation in Vietnam, offering a new dimension to the situation and enabling greater political understanding and engagement by young Vietnamese Facebook users. The thesis asks whether …
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Insights into the impacts Facebook can have on management decisions for (recreational) sport horses in New Zealand
… Zealand are using equestrian-themed groups on Facebook to gain knowledge and advice on matters of horse husbandry rather than using more evidence-based methods, and secondly to gather insights about the impact this form of decision-making can have on horses. The research also explores reasons …
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Supporting meaningful social networks
… sites (SNSs) such as Friendster, MySpace and Facebook. SNSs flatten the real-world social network by making personal information and social structure visible to users outside the ego-centric networks. They provide a new basis of trust and credibility upon the Internet and Web infrastructure …
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Facebook and Other Internet Use and the Academic Performance of College Students
… college students' use of the Internet and Facebook as well as whether usage patterns, and perceptions about the academic effects of use, relate to time spent studying and/or academic performance. One hundred sixty undergraduate students completed an online survey designed to measure the …
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Facebook's ‘white genocide' problem: a sociotechnical exploration of problematic information, shareability, and social correction in a South African context
… spaces, but especially within ‘alternative news' Facebook pages. This case study is used as an opportunity to apply a sociotechnical model of media effects to a very real disinformation problem that continues to inflame race relations in South Africa. Three pivotal questions are addressed, …
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Understanding the Imaginary Audience and the Personal Fable in a Social Media Environment
… of adolescence in young adults. The high rate of Facebook use among young people has necessitated an examination of social network usage among children and adolescents under the auspices of developmental theory. Thus, this research study examined the relationship between Facebook use, …
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Testing theoretical game theory results on a large scale : prisoner's dilemma on Facebook
… accessable to a large diverse audience via the Facebook social network to test out game theoretic results and study social interactions. In this game, we designed scenarios that mirrored classic game theory situations, most prominantly the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game. The game allows for …
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Implementasi e-marketing pada social networking: Studi kasus pada jual beli hewan peliharaan melalui komunitas Facebook Kota Malang Cinta Fauna (KOMACI) di Malang Kota
… Implementasi e-marketing melalui komunitas facebook KOMACI. Facebook merupakan jejaring sosial yang paling banyak digunakan di dunia, Indonesia merupakan Negara dengan pengguna facebook terbesar di benua Asia dan Australia. Perkembangan facebook sekarang ini tidak hanya digunakan sebagai …
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Utilizing Facebook to Articulate Self and Sustain Community: Experiences of Undergraduate Students on a Midwestern Campus
Facebook is an online social networking site that connects people through intentionally constructed virtual social relationships. It has been an integral component in campus life throughout the world since 2006, extending outside of higher education networks and into mainstream society (Moral & …
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THE USE OF FACEBOOK IN THE EGYPTIAN JANUARY 25TH REVOLUTION: THE SPIRAL OF VOICE PROCESS
… conducted to determine whether Egyptians’ use of Facebook between December 17, 2010 and February 11, 2011 affected their perceptions of majority and minority opinions about President Hosni Mubarak’s government and thus influenced their willingness to express their opinions about that regime, in …
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Mourning 2.0: Continuing Bonds between the Living and the Dead on Facebook
This study examines the burgeoning phenomenon of Facebook memorial pages and how this research about dynamic, online social networking environments can contribute to the existing literature related to Klass et al's (1996) continuing bonds thesis. Contrary to Klass and Walter's (2001) findings that …
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The Deliberative Potential of Social Media: Face Threat and Face Support in Online Political Expression
… media use and political interaction experiences. Facebook was the most popular platform for exposure to others' political opinions and political self-expression. Facebook users with more diverse networks engaged in more political expression. Across numerous platforms, participants reported …
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