Social Media & Internet Psychology
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The Mum effect is the natural human reluctance to share bad news with others, due to a desire to avoid a range of negative consequences, consequences affecting both self and the recipient of the bad news. Although the gospel is good news... more
Social media is increasingly important in daily life and is an especially important social interaction mechanism for young people. Although research has been conducted evaluating user types based on motives for using social media, no such... more
Avvertenza: la tesi qui riportata è stata sottoposta a una lieve revisione formale rispetto alla versione sottoposta alla commissione di laurea. Condurre una vita associata significa oggi, in buona parte, condurre una vita connessa.... more
Social network data mining has a disparate impact through its reliance on predictive analytics, its reproduction of patterns of unfairness, and evasion of privacy protections. First, this paper will discuss data mining’s disparate... more
The Internet may be free, but service provider’s indispensable to access services are not, to the extent that while the complexity and burden of the sites increases, it is becoming more and more expensive to surf the net. Blocking access... more
Konferenz zum Thema “W(h)iter Identity – Positioning the Self and Transforming the Social”
It is observed that the relationship between the use of the social media by people and the loneliness and depression increases day by day. The main aim of this study is to examine the loneliness, depression and use of the social media by... more
Аннотация. В исследовании рассматривались психологические характеристики киберспортсменов: свойства нервной системы, мотивы киберспортивной деятельности, волевые качества личности, направленность личности в игровом процессе... more
The 21st century opened the door for the videogame industry to become a 100-billion-dollar industry according to Super Data’s 2017 . A lot of scholars have been studying why video games generates so much monetary and social interactions... more
The Social Media have changed the power structures in the marketplace; evidence points to a major power migration taking place and to emergence of a new breed of powerful and sophisticated customer, difficult to influence, persuade and... more
With the introduction of the Internet, digital cameras, and smartphones, the selfie has emerged as an important trend. To date, research has focussed predominantly on homogenous groups of participants, examining if and why they portray... more
Entman, criticizing hegemony and indexing models presents an important model in media policy relation, relating to foreign news, especially emphasizing what has changed after Cold War paradigm and policy uncertainty. It can be considered... more
Since the emergence of new media, it has been widely accepted by the scholars that new media strengthens democracy, freedom of speech and social movements; however, they have mostly ignored new media's potential for narcotizing. This... more
Over the last decade, the way people communicate with each other has been changing astonishingly. The extensive new plethora of media has given to customers more options to gather and provide information about products and services. This... more
Public debate over fake news has become ubiquitous in the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Yet, up until now, there has been a dearth of scholarly attempts at defining the term ‘fake news’. This has led to the paradoxical... more
In the past decade, even the most casual observer would agree that there has been a continual stream of corporate crises: product defects and recalls, insider trading, corporate malfeasance, mortgage fraud, and other wrong-doing that has... more
The Predictive Casino is a casino that utilizes the latest technological developments to connect with its customers to deliver an exceptional personalized experience to each and every one of its patrons. Today, technology such as AI,... more
India is facing a transition period in the field of Information and Communication Technology, being the second largest populated country in the world, it is enforced to confront many diverse problems. The scope for accomplishing the... more
In the age of social media the nature of records and social memory is fundamentally changed. The archive is a tool used in the process of transforming social experience, memories and history into collective remembering. The increased... more
Social Media networks have vast acceptance in current circumstances. Almost everyone who has access with internet is connected with some kind of social interaction using available social medias. Social Medias are now providing lots of... more
The present paper investigated the role of social media in youth participatory politics. A survey of university students was conducted in March, 2013. The findings of the present study indicated that a large number of the respondents... more
Analyzes the lively discussion of Sephardic customs which plays so central a role on the Ladinokomunita social network.
Considering two major social justice issues in 2014, one dealing with police brutality and the other dealing with online gendered harassment, the need to have a faith based response to digitized shortcomings of humanity became blatant.... more
Gina Miller shot to fame after taking the British government to court for attempting to force through Article 50, the mechanism, which started the Brexit process. It was a case that, like the 2016 Referendum itself, polarised Britain.... more
Political discourse on social media is seen by many as polarized, vitriolic and permeated by falsehoods and misinformation. Political operators have exploited all of these aspects of the discourse for strategic purposes, most famously... more
Dābiq is an electronic magazine (e-zine) utilising strategic utopianism and savagery messages supported by exemplary leadership, eschatology, and current events reports. This project analyses narrative themes present within Dābiq and... more
A version of this paper was presented at the First West Asian Studies National Convention, Centre for West Asian Studies, JNU on 14 November 2014. The goal of this paper is to place the role that new social media has played in achieving... more
Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen coined the term ‘supernormal stimulus’ after discovering that birds who lay small, pale blue eggs speckled with grey prefer to sit on larger, bright blue eggs with black polka-dots. He found that he could... more
When you see it coming... but nobody listens: this paper was given at a conference in in 1995 and published in 1996. Twenty years later, unfortunately I was right. Luciano Floridi, (1996) "Brave.Net.World: the Internet as a disinformation... more