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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"social media applications"”.
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Topic Modeling Location-Based Social Media Applications
… across various research domains. The number of social media applications and users is increasing daily, and analyzing these data streams provides added value, relevance, and significance for both scholarly and practitioner communities. With increased users, the user-generated content grows, as …
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The potential of using mobile social media applications for language learning : A case study in Saudi higher education
… study aims to harness young people’s ubiquitous social media use to facilitate language education and explore how mobile devices and social media applications can promote and provide more autonomous, collaborative, motivated, and contextual learning experiences in a Saudi Arabian university …
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Commedia: Rhetoric And Technology In The Media Commons
… the organization of individuals through online social media applications and other community-building websites, such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Google Maps, and online classrooms, using the Aristotelian rhetorical concept of the commonplaces as well as political, critical, and legal theory. Based …
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How Could Participatory Design be Catalyzed by Social Media? Improving Co-Design Efficiency and Effectiveness
… an important gateway for civic engagement. Social media, with the ability to mobilize people without minimal time and spatial limitations, has been increasingly integrated into participatory design projects in recent years. However, the actual ways in which social media help improve the …
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Forever Ephemeral? – An Exploratory Analysis of Youth Self-presentation with Instagram Stories in the Context of Visual Mobile Communication
… • Theory: To provide a theoretical basis on how social media applications with ephemeral content intersect with visual mobile communication. • Images: To typify the visual self-presentation strategies mediated by ephemeral content of Instagram Stories among the youth. • Experiences: To …
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Smart Homes and You: IOT Device Data Risks in an Ever-Changing World
<p>Social media applications are increasingly seen as a national security threat and a cause for concern because they can be used to create user profiles on government personnel and on US citizens. These profiles could be used for big data and artificial intelligence purposes of interest to foreign …
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The impact of electronic word-of-mouth in social networking sites on a high-involvement purchase : an empirical study of South African brides' intention to purchase the "once-in-a-lifetime" wedding dress
… Previous research has looked at the effect of social media, in the form of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), on purchase intention. However, few studies have analysed this effect for high-risk, "once-in-a-lifetime" products such as wedding dresses. In South Africa alone, social media users …
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Can buzz on Twitter predict TV ratings and viewers? : a study of US TV shows premiering in fall 2013
Watching television has always been a social activity. People like to sit down with friends and family to watch it and then discuss it not only with one's friends and family but at work (water cooler conversations). Just as television has moved ahead with advances in technology, so too has our …
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Exploring the role of Web 2.0 applications in the acquisition of digital literacy by first-year students at a South African University of Technology
… study was to explore the utilisation of Web 2.0 applications to facilitate the development of digital literacies among first-year Engineering students at a UoT. These applications include many different social media applications and websites, including blogs, discussion forums, wikis, social …
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Automated Approaches to Community Question Answering
Social Media applications, e.g., forums, social networks, allow users to pose questions about a given topic to a community of expert users. Although successful, these applications suffer from a major drawback: it is rather complex to find similar questions with traditional keyword-based search. …
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A comparison of socially-motivated discussion forum models for learning management systems
… (LMSes) by exploring the incorporation of sociallymotivated discussion forum models. This study proposes a Web-based application, which includes four different discussion forum models for LMSes, in order to test usability and student preferences. The purpose of this study was to compare two …
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The effect of technology upskilling on the quality of life of elderly people in Iran : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
The impact of smartphones and social media apps on lifestyle, Quality of Life, and well-being among elderly people is an important issue with digital communication becoming the predominant communication mode. The effect of using social media apps on the elderly people’s Quality of Life in …