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Teenagers, screens and social media: a narrative review of reviews and key studies

open access: yesSocial Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2020
Introduction In light of growing concerns about an increasingly digital adolescence, the academic field investigating how digital technologies affect adolescents’ psychological well-being is growing rapidly.
Amy C. Orben
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Social Media Users\u27 Guide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Mass Communication Professor Susan Currie Sivek shares ideas and suggestions for how to take control of social media and use it to your ...
Aier, Stephan   +3 more
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A Two-Study Approach to Explore the Effect of User Characteristics on Users’ Perception and Evaluation of a Virtual Assistant’s Appearance

open access: yesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2018
This research investigates the effect of different user characteristics on the perception and evaluation of an agent’s appearance variables. Therefore, two different experiments have been conducted. In a 3 × 3 × 5 within-subjects design
Carolin Straßmann, Nicole C. Krämer
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Signed Networks in Social Media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Relations between users on social media sites often reflect a mixture of positive (friendly) and negative (antagonistic) interactions. In contrast to the bulk of research on social networks that has focused almost exclusively on positive interpretations ...
Huttenlocher, Daniel   +2 more
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Code Switching in Social Media Twitter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The study deals with the types of code switching and reasons why people switch their language in social media Twitter. The objectives of study are to find out contextual type and the grammatical type of code-switching which is mostly used in social media
Meisuri, M. (Meisuri)   +1 more
core  

Account credibility inference based on news-sharing networks

open access: yesEPJ Data Science
The spread of misinformation poses a threat to the social media ecosystem. Effective countermeasures to mitigate this threat require that social media platforms be able to accurately detect low-credibility accounts even before the content they share can ...
Bao Tran Truong   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Let the Weakest Link Go! Empirical Explorations on the Relative Importance of Weak and Strong Ties on Social Networking Sites

open access: yesSocieties, 2014
Theoretical approaches as well as empirical results in the area of social capital accumulation on social networking sites suggest that weak ties/bridging versus strong ties/bonding social capital should be distinguished and that while bonding social ...
Nicole C. Krämer   +4 more
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“Alexa, You're Really Stupid”: A Longitudinal Field Study on Communication Breakdowns Between Family Members and a Voice Assistant

open access: yesFrontiers in Computer Science, 2022
In this paper, we present the results of our long-term study on use of a voice assistant (Amazon Alexa via Amazon Echo Dot) in nine families with children and no previous experience with this technology. The study was conducted over the course of 5 weeks
Lina Mavrina   +5 more
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Terminology mining in social media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The highly variable and dynamic word usage in social media presents serious challenges for both research and those commercial applications that are geared towards blogs or other user-generated non-editorial texts.
Karlgren, Jussi, Sahlgren, Magnus
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The Effects of Social Media Use on Preventive Behaviors during Infectious Disease Outbreaks: The Mediating Role of Self-relevant Emotions and Public Risk Perception

open access: yesHealth Communication, 2020
While there has been increasing attention to the role of social media during infectious disease outbreaks, relatively little is known about the underlying mechanisms by which social media use affects risk perception and preventive behaviors during such ...
Sang-Hwa Oh, S. Lee, Changhyun Han
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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