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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"social networking site"”.
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Reinventing the rattling tin : explaining the dynamics of social networking site fundraising
Recent social media fundraising success stories like the No Make-up Selfie and Ice Bucket Challenge campaigns, which raised millions of pounds for charities in just days, have been hailed as a new method of fundraising in a new, networked society. They also, at a first glance, appear to support …
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Navigating the Social Landscape: An Exploration of Social Networking Site Usage among Emerging Adults
… second-year of undergraduate study make use of social networking sites (SNSs) for their day-to-day sociality. This study compares emerging adults’ use of Facebook, which is the most popular and widely used SNS among this particular demographic, to increasingly popular SNSs Twitter and Instagram. …
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Investigating the use of a social networking site in the facilitation of internationalisation in higher education
… @ UCT. Certain concepts from the theories of Networking, Social Capital, Social Presence and Social Identity were further used to scrutinise and explain the actions of the Page Poster on IAPO @ UCT. IAPO @ UCT was able to facilitate internationalisation at UCT as there was evidence in the page …
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A uses and gratifications perspective of Chinese college students' motivations in using renren (Chinese social networking site)
… incredibly increasing popularity of online social networking sites around the globe. The emergence of new social media, including online social networking sites, brings the communication world a brand-new area to explore. The success of Facebook and MySpace in the U.S. has attracted a …
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An enquiry into the relationship between social networking site use and primary school children's academic performance and cognition
Young people are extensively using social networking sites (SNS), which has given rise to alarming claims about the effects of SNS use on children’s learning and cognitive development. Most literature, however, has examined the impact of media multitasking on cognition rather than SNS, and has been …
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Why is MySpace the place for friends? : An ethnographic study on the effects of social-networking site use on socialization
… college-aged students ' use of the popular social-networking site, MySpace. It also examined how MySpace influences online and offline relationships as well as impacts individuals' self concept. The research method included an initial unobtrusive observation of 50 random MySpace pages, …
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The targeted use of the informal register on a social networking site by foreign-language learners evaluated through linguistic analysis and perceived-context appropriateness
… were undertaken using asynchronous chat on the social networking site. In addition to a linguistic assessment of the intervention, a practical evaluation was undertaken in Stage Two by speakers of English who rated Stage One posts based upon their context appropriateness. The results of the …
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Using social networking to increase independent social functioning in a student with autism
… study was to examine if engaging a student on a social networking site with his peers would increase social functioning in other settings. In this study social interactions were measured by reciprocating greetings, initiating greetings, and total numbers of social interactions during lunch and …
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To post or not to post: examining motivations of brand/product-related engagement types on social networking sites.
At present, consumers use social networking sites to engage with brands and brand related content, this study examines consumers’ motivations for brand/product- related engagement on social networking sites. This thesis develops three motivation frameworks to explain each brand/product-related …
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Activity based interfaces in online social networks
… experiences for the users and builders of online social networking sites. Medina, a social-networking site based on the idea of exchanging knowledge, explores new interfaces for visualizing connections between people and ideas. The site constantly measures interactions between people and their …
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The Beliefs And Perceived Experiences Of Preservice And Early Service Teachers Who Use Facebook
… service teachers with regard to their use of the social networking site Facebook. This study included recorded and transcribed interviews of 14 participants as well as observations of their Facebook accounts. The participants in this study consisted of six males and eight females who were in …
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A study of student-veterans and academic engagement
… Specifically, this study seeks to determine if social support, willingness towards campus communication, self-esteem, and eagerness towards social networking site usage are related to a student-veterans overall level of academic engagement. This study draws its data from a sample of 202 …
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Supplementing ESL Classroom Activities With Social Media For Young Adult Learners
… <p>The purpose of the project is to make use of social networking sites, a readily available technology that students are already familiar with, and adapt classroom material to them as a way to increase students' motivation and learner autonomy. The project is intended to serve as a guide for …
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Social media use and self-esteem in undergraduate students
… using a different form of communication which is social media. Social media is a way that people communicate with family/friends, get information, post photos, etc. It is estimated that the average amount of time spent on this social networking site ranges from thirty minutes to over two hours on …
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When the Beautiful Game Turns Ugly: A Study of Fan Experiences of Perceived Match Fixing in Soccer
… through this era of match fixing in the sport. Social networking site Twitter was utilized to recruit participants from three continents – Africa, Europe, and North America – based on submissions to the site in response to a perceived fix from a high-profile March, 2013 match. A total of 12 …
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A cognitive categorization-based approach for understanding identity representation online
Computationally representing social identities using social networking profiles traditionally involves the reduction of identities to fit into simplistic categories such as "friends." In contrast, this thesis proposes that the data structures underlying user identities can be algorithmically …
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How Much Does This Tick You Off? Online Rejection and Criticism Lead to Negative Affect and Retaliatory Aggression
… single-factor experiment (N = 77) on a mock social-networking site similar to Facebook reveals that even a slight rejection - not being allowed to join groups on the site - lead to increases in self-reported negative affect and retaliation against the site and the rejecting groups compared to …
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Assessing Parasocial Interactions and Relationships in Real Time
Parasocial interaction and parasocial relationships refer to the connections people form with media characters, particularly through watching television. Transportation is a term used to explain narrative absorption. These concepts have been studied extensively in communication, particularly in …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY STUDENT FACEBOOK USAGE AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION.
… investigate whether college students' use of the social networking site Facebook influenced their alcohol consumption. In particular, the relationship between students' alcohol use and exposure to alcohol-related content through various features or activities on Facebook was examined. An …
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Political engagement and social networking sites exploring the relationship between social networking sites and political engagement in young adults
<p>Social Networking Sites (SNS) have extremely high rates of young adult users. Facebook.com report.s that more than half of its users are of college age. Due to the increasing number of political figures and political information on SNS, this study analyzes the relationship between SNS and …
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