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This paper explores how social media exposure contributes to the construction of social confidence within the framework of Media-system Dependency Theory. The research unveils the following key findings: (1) Social media exposure positively facilitates social confidence; (2) G...
Business models that rely on social media and user-generated content have shifted from the more traditional business model, where value for the organization is derived from the one-way delivery of products and/or services, to the provision of intangible value based on user engagement. This researc...
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Research on Social Media and Teen Depression Over the last decade, this theory has been borne out by a large body ofresearchlinking teenagers’ use of social media with increasedteen depression. These studies show that the frequency of a teen’s use of social media has a clear correlation to...
The networked political blogsphere and mass media: understanding how agendas are formed, framed, and transferred in the emerging new media environment This dissertation applied mass communication theory and the interdisciplinary theory of social network analysis to the networked political blogosphere and ....
Based on the tenets of social identity theory, a two-study experimental design was conducted which examined the influence of exposure to positive Latino media exemplars on ingroup (Latino) and outgroup (white) consumers. Specifically, the impact of exposure on interethnic evaluations as well as pe...
For some people, privacy is a big concern. This isn’t a big one for me because I subscribe to the basic theory of Tim O’Reilly that obscurity is a bigger concern. (He was talking about authors and piracy, but I think the theory applies to most people, whether they’re furthering ...
Moreover, according to the flow theory, individuals can experience a state of flow when they direct their attention toward accomplishing a specific task or overcoming a challenge in order to attain certain objectives [57]. This state of flow is characterized by a sense of fulfillment, enhanced ...
Representative publications of this research stream (see Table7) reference each more than 2 keywords of factor 10. Regarding theories and conceptualizations, although this research stream has not a leading theory, they analyze food tourism and its relationship with social media. Thus, an inclusive an...