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Background Despite the increased use of social media to share health-related information and the substantial impact that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can have on individuals’ health and wellbeing, currently, to our knowledge, there is no ...
J. Y. Ng, Natasha Verhoeff, J. Steen
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People are increasingly exposed to science and political information from social media. One consequence is that these sites play host to “alternative influencers,” who spread misinformation. However, content posted by alternative influencers on different
Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice +2 more
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While much research exists on the role of digital media use in protest movements, few studies compare the long-term impact of protests on online use of alternative and mainstream digital media.
J. Luna, Sergio Y. Toro, S. Valenzuela
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, self-proclaimed resistance movements have organized protests against containment measures both in digital media and on the streets.
Christian Schwarzenegger, Anna Wagner
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Like many other developed democracies, most democratic countries in West Africa are facing challenges of trust in news media for political information, particularly with the emergence of the non-mainstream media - new social media.
Jamiu M. Mustapha +3 more
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Building an alternative social currency: Dematerialising and rematerialising digital money across media [PDF]
This paper reports on the user experience and design of physical and digital forms of a mixed-media local currency. We reconceive digitally mediated transactions as social interactions and report on the development of conceptual designs informed by user ...
Ferreira, J, Perry, M
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Geo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages [PDF]
Social media messages posted by people during natural disasters often contain important location descriptions, such as the locations of victims. Recent research has shown that many of these location descriptions go beyond simple place names, such as city
Yingjie Hu +8 more
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Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media: A case study of the 2016 U.S. presidential election [PDF]
Social media has become an emerging alternative to opinion polls for public opinion collection, while it is still posing many challenges as a passive data source, such as structurelessness, quantifiability, and representativeness.
Cai, Tengteng +4 more
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YouTube Channel: An Alternative Social Media to Enhance EFL Students’ Speaking Skill
The use of YouTube channel allows students to comprehend lessons easier and motivates students in learning. The aim of this study is to know whether or not there is a significant effect of using YouTube channel to students’ speaking achievement.
M. Ilyas, M. Putri
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Engagement, user satisfaction, and the amplification of divisive content on social media [PDF]
Social media ranking algorithms typically optimize for users’ revealed preferences, i.e. user engagement such as clicks, shares, and likes. Many have hypothesized that by focusing on users’ revealed preferences, these algorithms may exacerbate human ...
S. Milli +4 more
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