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Crime and Social media [PDF]

open access: yesInformation Technology & People, 2019
Purpose-The study complements the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the year 2012 ...
Asongu, Simplice   +3 more
core   +7 more sources

Social media [PDF]

open access: yesTheology Cataloging Bulletin, 2020
In this chapter you will: 1) understand the dynamics of social media-based communities, their composition and behaviours 2) learn to conduct a social media audit including competitor analysis 3) recognise the importance of a blog as a centre of digital presence development 4) use amplification strategies to develop brand presence explore the concept of
Fenton, Alex   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Neutral bots probe political bias on social media

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Social media platforms moderating misinformation have been accused of political bias. Here, the authors use neutral social bots to show that, while there is no strong evidence for such a bias, the content to which Twitter users are exposed depends ...
Wen Chen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The echo chamber effect on social media

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
Significance We explore the key differences between the main social media platforms and how they are likely to influence information spreading and the formation of echo chambers. To assess the different dynamics, we perform a comparative analysis on more
Matteo Cinelli   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation

open access: yesHarvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2021
We analyze the relationship between partisanship, echo chambers, and vulnerability to online misinformation by studying news sharing behavior on Twitter.
Dimitar Nikolov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Twitter flagged Donald Trump’s tweets with election misinformation: They continued to spread both on and off the platform

open access: yesHarvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2021
We analyze the spread of Donald Trump’s tweets that were flagged by Twitter using two intervention strategies—attaching a warning label and blocking engagement with the tweet entirely.
Zeve Sanderson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A language framework for modeling social media account behavior

open access: yesEPJ Data Science, 2023
Malicious actors exploit social media to inflate stock prices, sway elections, spread misinformation, and sow discord. To these ends, they employ tactics that include the use of inauthentic accounts and campaigns. Methods to detect these abuses currently
Alexander C. Nwala   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Widespread uptake of vaccines is necessary to achieve herd immunity. However, uptake rates have varied across U.S. states during the first six months of the COVID-19 vaccination program.
Francesco Pierri   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Huge citizens expose to social media during a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbroke in Wuhan, China. We assess the prevalence of mental health problems and examine their association with social media exposure.
Junling Gao   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Media and Social Media Marketing

open access: yes, 2023
Social media and social media marketing are sometimes used interchangeably, but two indeed are different. The purpose of this research paper is to revisit the literature on both concepts and correlates them in technical terminologies. We have studied the literature available on Social media first and identified the basic functionalities of it. Then the
Akash Jugal   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

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