scholarly journals Use of social media big data as a novel HIV surveillance tool in South Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. e0239304
Author(s):  
Alastair van Heerden ◽  
Sean Young
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Hiv Surveillance ◽  
Use Of Social Media

scholarly journals Perceptions of nursing students regarding responsible use of social media in the Eastern Cape

Curationis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thando Nyangeni ◽  
Suzette Du Rand ◽  
Dalena Van Rooyen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Background: Social media have become a popular communication system that has transformed communication from the traditional to the Web-based model. Because social media use has no limitations to place and time, it is now used extensively at clinical facilities. Social media useis becoming a popular activity amongst students at Nursing Education Institutions (NEI) in South Africa. However, lack of accountability and unethical use of social media by nursing students in South Africa has been reported.Objectives: The aim of the study was to explore and describe the perceptions of nursing students regarding responsible use of social media.Methods: A qualitative, descriptive, explorative and contextual research design was used to explore and describe the perceptions of nursing students regarding the responsible use of social media. Twelve nursing students registered for the undergraduate nursing degree were purposely selected and interviewed individually using a semi-structured interview method.Results: The results of this research study demonstrate that nursing students use socialmedia irresponsibly. Nursing students experience blurred boundaries between personal and professional lines and lack accountability when using social media.Conclusion: The extensive use of social media in the clinical environment, by healthcare students, requires a joint effort by Nursing Education Institutions and healthcare facilities to ensure that social media are used in an ethically acceptable manner. The implementation of the recommendations of this research study could positively influence legally and ethically acceptable use of social media at healthcare facilities.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE ACTIO INJURIARIUM IN SOUTH AFRICA – AN EXPLORATION OF NEW CHALLENGES IN THE ONLINE ERA

Obiter ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya P Singh
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
South African ◽  
News Media ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Law ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Alternative Remedies

The rapid rise in the use of social media networking sites in South Africa has posed new challenges to our courts. The law of defamation and privacy, which has long been considered well established, is now facing new demands on its boundaries because of the unique characteristics of social media in the online era.This note will discuss and critique three recent cases individually, concerning issues arising from the use of Facebook (a social media website) and the approach of the courts in extending the traditional law to the new demands of social media interaction.The aim of the note is to evaluate: the considerations which should apply to the granting of an interdict in respect of comments posted on Facebook, especially where alternative remedies are available; whether social media should be treated differently from electronic news media; how to establish ownership of a Facebook profile where such ownership is disputed; liability for anonymous defamatory posts on an individual’s Facebook profile; whether an individual can be liable for defamatory posts not made by himself personally, but in which he has been tagged; whether comments posed as questions can be regarded as defamatory; and the role played by apologies in claims for damages in defamation.The note concludes by discussing how South African courts have extended the traditional principles governing the actio injuriarium action in South African law – to the new challenges posed by the rise in popularity of social media networking sites.

scholarly journals The Use of Social Media in Public Relations at Non-Governmental Organisations in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6(J)) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
G. Nchabeleng ◽  
CJ. Botha ◽  
CA Bisschoff
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Way

Social media can be a useful tool in public relations in non-governmental organisations (NGOs), but do NGOs make use of social media in their quest for service delivery in South Africa? Social networking sites, blogging, email, instant messaging, and online journals are some of the technological changes that changed the way interaction between people and how they gather information. Although social media is mainly used for interactive dialogue and social interaction, the private sector soon realised that the web-based technologies (especially Facebook and Twitter) could also be a competitive business tool. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) soon followed suit however at a slower pace than the general communication growth rate of social media in South Africa. This article examines if social networking sites have any impact on public relations practices of NGOs in South Africa – an environment where both customers and employees still struggle to take full advantage of social media. The critical literature findings increase the understanding of the current and future challenges of social media use in public relations at NGOs in South Africa. The study explores the main differences between traditional and social media, how social media is redefining public relations role, and shed some light on defining public relations practices, identify the uses, limitations and benefits of social media by public relations practitioners in NGOs. Recommendations for future communication research are given. Based on the literature, a qualitative research design collected data using semi-structured, individual interviews. The results revealed that social media platforms such as Facebook do have an effect, and even changed the way in which NGOs communicate. The study also revealed that social media certainly has an impact on public relations relationships. This means that it has become crucial that public relations practitioners at NOGs embrace and take advantage of social media, and that they should also invest in proper electronic platforms to reap the benefits of improved communication internally and externally.

The Use of Social Media for Urban Planning

2019 ◽  
pp. 1049-1070
Author(s):  
Fabian Neuhaus
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Data Systems ◽  
User Management ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
User Data ◽  
Use Of Social Media

User data created in the digital context has increasingly been of interest to analysis and spatial analysis in particular. Large scale computer user management systems such as digital ticketing and social networking are creating vast amount of data. Such data systems can contain information generated by potentially millions of individuals. This kind of data has been termed big data. The analysis of big data can in its spatial but also in a temporal and social nature be of much interest for analysis in the context of cities and urban areas. This chapter discusses this potential along with a selection of sample work and an in-depth case study. Hereby the focus is mainly on the use and employment of insight gained from social media data, especially the Twitter platform, in regards to cities and urban environments. The first part of the chapter discusses a range of examples that make use of big data and the mapping of digital social network data. The second part discusses the way the data is collected and processed. An important section is dedicated to the aspects of ethical considerations. A summary and an outlook are discussed at the end.

TWEET DATA EXTRACTOR FOR CREATING A TWITTER TRAFFIC MAP MASHUP

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirul Afif Jasmi ◽  
Mohamad Hafis Izran Ishak ◽  
Nurul Hawani Idris
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Transportation Planning ◽  
General Public ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Road ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Over recent years, there has been a growth of interest in the use of social media including Facebook and Twitter by the authorities to share and updates current information to the general public. The technology has been used for a variety of purposes including traffic control and transportation planning. There is a concern that the use of new technologies, including social media will lead to data abundance that requires effective operational resources to interpret the big data. This paper proposes a tweet data extractor to extract the traffic tweet by the authority and visualise the reports and mash up on top of online map, namely Twitter map. Visualisation of traffic tweet on a map could assist a user to effectively interpret the text based Twitter report by a location based map viewer. Hence, it could ease the process of planning itinerary by the road users. 

Social Media Use for Water Conservation Education in South Africa: Perceptions of Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality’s Residents

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charity Hove ◽  
Oluyinka O Osunkunle
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Conservation Education ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Water scarcity is increasing in South Africa and communities need to be educated about water conservation practices. This article investigated the perceptions of Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality’s residents concerning the use of social media for water conservation education in their community. Through a quantitative methodology, a sample of 383 respondents answered a questionnaire and the main findings were that 75 per cent of respondents did not know about the municipality’s social media platforms. This article recommends that the municipality creates awareness about its social media platforms, increases social media usage and employs persuasive strategies for participation.

The use of social media by higher education institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Jacek Maślankowski ◽  
Łukasz Brzezicki
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Marketing Methods

Higher education institutions have been using, to an increasing extent, various marketing methods and tools, which are becoming a decisive factor in building their competitive advantage and achieving success. In order to initiate and maintain long-term relationships with their communities and to conduct other marketing activities, higher education institutions have been increasingly often using social media, which has enabled them to actively create their image. The aim of this study is to utilize big data methods and tools to measure the scale of the use of social media by the higher education sector. The research carried out in the first quarter of 2019 demonstrates that large higher education institutions, i.e. those with over 1696 students (according to the adopted classification), use social media to communicate current news to a larger extent than the smaller ones. A significantly smaller percentage of mediumsized higher education institutions (223-1695 students) and small ones (up to 222 students) have accounts in social media, thus failing to take full advantage of the potential of these media. Higher education institutions use social media mainly to promote events they organise.

scholarly journals Sentimen Analisis Terhadap Komentar Konsumen Terhadap Produk Penjualan Toko Online Menggunakan Metode K-Means

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
Andris Faesal ◽  
Aziz Muslim ◽  
Aditya Hastami Ruger ◽  
Kusrini Kusrini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
R Programming Language ◽  
R Programming ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Sentiment ◽  
Existing Data

In this big data era, the use of social media often makes posts in his social media accounts in the form of opinions on events and things around him. One of them is making a post that gives an opinion on the events and items around it. One of them is making a post that gives an opinion on an item that has just been purchased, so that the effect is on other users who are connected to it. The more people who know it, then indirectly people will get to know the item. For that from the description of the problem above, this study raises an idea to make an analysis of social media sentiment which aims to provide a decision of consumer opinion on social media on sales products. As for the several stages of the method for the research, namely from the collection of data carried out by collecting existing data in tweets from social media Twitter using the R programming language. The data produces raw or raw data associated with sales items. With the K-means method as inputting, after each group is known from the K-Means output

scholarly journals TWEETS AND FACEBOOK POSTS, THE NOVELTY TECHNIQUES IN THE CREATION OF ORIGIN-DESTINATION MODELS

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B2 ◽  
pp. 555-562
Author(s):  
H. K. Malema ◽  
W. Musakwa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Transportation Planning ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Gauteng Province ◽  
Distribution Studies ◽  
Network Patterns

Social media and big data have emerged to be a useful source of information that can be used for planning purposes, particularly transportation planning and trip-distribution studies. Cities in developing countries such as South Africa often struggle with out-dated, unreliable and cumbersome techniques such as traffic counts and household surveys to conduct origin and destination studies. The emergence of ubiquitous crowd sourced data, big data, social media and geolocation based services has shown huge potential in providing useful information for origin and destination studies. Perhaps such information can be utilised to determine the origin and destination of commuters using the Gautrain, a high-speed railway in Gauteng province South Africa. To date little is known about the origins and destinations of Gautrain commuters. Accordingly, this study assesses the viability of using geolocation-based services namely Facebook and Twitter in mapping out the network movements of Gautrain commuters. Explorative Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA), Echo-social and ArcGis software were used to extract social media data, i.e. tweets and Facebook posts as well as to visualize the concentration of Gautrain commuters. The results demonstrate that big data and geolocation based services have the significant potential to predict movement network patterns of commuters and this information can thus, be used to inform and improve transportation planning. Nevertheless use of crowd sourced data and big data has privacy concerns that still need to be addressed.

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