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A higher number of socially anxious users were found as more users joined social network sites. Since social commerce has become an important issue, this study investigated the effect of social anxiety on online users’ social commerce intention. ...

This paper discusses the educational context of social network sites (SNSs) and the manner in which they are adopted as Europeanization tools to develop the main EU education priorities. The Erasmus + (E+) context, articulated on networks of education ...

Social network sites (SNS) play a role of paramount importance in the political landscape and influence the elections' outcomes around the world in an enormous way. As cases in point as for these phenomena, the world has witnessed the 2016 US ...

The present research was conducted to systematically review existing research that examined the relationships of the aspects of self-construal and social network sites (SNS) usages. A total of 12 research articles met the inclusion criteria for the ...

The advent of online social media (OSM) marketing necessitates further examination of existent studies on the negative word of mouth (NWOM). Earlier studies have focused mostly on the effect of consumption of NWOM. The present research paper, on the ...

The education platform today has evolved in align with the development of information technology. Social Network Sites (SNS) appears to be one of the many famous platforms applied in numerous fields, such as business and education. With that, this ...

Social network sites have become popular and their popularity is growing exponentially every day. From the requirements engineering point of view, social network sites have provided unprecedented opportunities for software development organizations to ...

This article investigates the relationships among social network sites (SNSs) and social apps (SAPs) on consumers' online purchase attitude (OPA) with moderating effect of gender (GND). Structural equation modeling using SPSS and supporting tools was ...

Social media is widely recognized as a challenging new communication technology in both economic and social contexts. The present article explores how banks have exploited this technology in the range of consumer retail banking services offered by 100 ...

This article discusses concept and measurement of online friendship in an Indonesian context. Online friendship is considered to be superficial due to the lack of face-to-face interaction and emotional intimacy. Based on grounded theory research, online ...

Recently, much scholarship has investigated how social media use affects citizens' political participation, online and offline. In general, social media use has a positive but weak effect on participation. However, different use types exert a ...

This study examines how explicit and implicit cues to social norms affect disclosure and privacy decisions in a Social Network Site SNS context. Study 1 revealed that participants' disclosure behavior adhered to explicit cues indicating disclosure ...

Social Network Sites (SNSs) offer a plethora of privacy controls, but users rarely exploit all of these mechanisms, nor do they do so in the same manner. We demonstrate that SNS users instead adhere to one of a small set of distinct privacy management ...

This research explored the effect of social network sites SNS use intensity in the workplace on three aspects of job burnout. The data were collected from non-teaching employees from universities in the U.S. N = 174 and in Thailand N = 182. Results from ...

Social network sites SNS are venues for information sharing that provide a variety of communication features capable of stirring emotions, attitudes and beliefs. This paper highlights the role of SNS feedback features and the meanings they communicate ...

The enormous popularity of social networking services makes public authorities and officers to become active users of social networks sites. The Russian Federal Government also has surrendered to the global tendency of using social media for public ...

The concept of reciprocity is embedded into community. A successful online peer-support community is characterized by its members actively giving and receiving support, namely in the form of advice and encouragement. In this paper, we investigate ...

The number of stay-at-home dads (SAHDs) in the U.S. has risen dramatically over the past 30 years. Despite gaining social acceptability, SAHDs still experience isolation and judgment in their offline environments. This research explores how SAHDs use ...

Most SNSs - including Facebook - are more a broadcast tool than a discussion tool.Groups of Facebook users (i.e., friends) tend to confirm rather than discuss and/or argue.Flat-structured discussions such as what Facebook affords impede discussion and ...

The psychological consequences of Facebook use remain controversy since most previous studies used vague and non-psychological-theory-driven indicators. To better understand the potential consequences of Facebook use, this study developed the Facebook ...