scholarly journals Lexical Variation in the Rural North Jordanian Dialect

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. p94
Author(s):  
Yousef F. Bader ◽  
Sajeda F. Al-Shatnawi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Lexical Variation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Do So ◽  
Female Subjects

This study investigates lexical variation, which is due to more education, more mobility, and widespread use of the social media, in the dialect of three towns around Irbid City in north Jordan and its correlation with age, gender, and level of education. Labov’s approach is adopted to examine the linguistic variation among 98 speakers of the Irbidite dialect. Around 100 words were collected and put in the form of a questionnaire to elicit the opinion of speakers from different age groups, genders, and levels of education towards the frequency of their use of these words. The study used the method of direct interview to elicit the feelings of the participants about the dialect they use. The results show that old speakers and less educated ones tend to preserve their native lexical items more than others. They indicated that they use the original lexical items because they are proud of their dialect which reflects their identity. The groups which tend more to neglect some lexical items are educated young and middle-aged female subjects. They indicated that they do so for prestige and imitation of peers in the Irbidite society.

OPINI PUBLIK TERHADAP PENERAPAN NEW NORMAL DI MEDIA SOSIAL TWITTER

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
AWAD BIN MUHAMMAD ALKATIRI ◽  
ZHAFIRA NADIAH ◽  
ADINDA NADA S. NASUTION
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Social

Social media is popular with all ages, people in young and old age groups can access social media. Social media is a place for information and opinion exchange. Twitter is one of the social media that is actively used in Indonesia. The new normal phenomenon that is currently being applied is wanted to be further known by researchers by referring to the hashtag #newnormalindonesia on Twitter. Researchers want to find out how public opinion is formed based on the hashtag #newnormalindonesia on Twitter. This research uses the concept of public opinion which is categorized into positive, negative, and neutral. In the research method, researchers use quantitative content analysis, the analysis unit uses thematic analysis units with the operationalization of concepts using the concept of public opinion. Coding sheets are used as instruments in data collection techniques, then in testing the validity and reliability using inter-coder reliability. The results showed that the twitter posts with the #newnormalindonesia hashtag tendto be negative by not supporting the implementation of new normal.

On the Privacy and Utility of Anonymized Social Networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Song ◽  
Xuesong Lu ◽  
Sadegh Nobari ◽  
Stéphane Bressan ◽  
Panagiotis Karras
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Do So

One is either on Facebook or not. Of course, this assessment is controversial and its rationale arguable. It is nevertheless not far, for many, from the reason behind joining social media and publishing and sharing details of their professional and private lives. Not only the personal details that may be revealed, but also the structure of the networks are sources of invaluable information for any organization wanting to understand and learn about social groups, their dynamics and members. These organizations may or may not be benevolent. It is important to devise, design and evaluate solutions that guarantee some privacy. One approach that reconciles the different stakeholders’ requirement is the publication of a modified graph. The perturbation is hoped to be sufficient to protect members’ privacy while it maintains sufficient utility for analysts wanting to study the social media as a whole. In this paper, the authors try to empirically quantify the inevitable trade-off between utility and privacy. They do so for two state-of-the-art graph anonymization algorithms that protect against most structural attacks, the k-automorphism algorithm and the k-degree anonymity algorithm. The authors measure several metrics for a series of real graphs from various social media before and after their anonymization under various settings.

A bibliometric analysis of social media in hospitality and tourism research

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 2691-2719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaldoon Nusair ◽  
Irfan Butt ◽  
S.R. Nikhashemi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
Hospitality And Tourism

Purpose While the importance of social media will continue to grow, the purpose of this study is to provide a retrospective systematic literature review of the social media research published in major hospitality and tourism journals over a specific time period. Design/methodology/approach The study conducted a bibliometric analysis to review the literature of 439 social media articles published in 51 hospitality and tourism journals over a 15-year time span (2002-2016). Findings Ulrike Gretzel authored the highest fractional citations. The results indicated that social media-related research was mostly published in top-tier journals. The International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management was amongst the four leading journals in terms of the percentage of published social media articles. While inter-country social media research collaborations were relatively modest, interestingly, inter-country collaborations have been steadily increasing in the past five years. Another finding indicated that social media research in hospitality and tourism journals has been predominantly quantitative. The results revealed six new areas within the consumer behaviour research theme, namely, eWOM, service recovery, customer satisfaction, brand/destination image and service quality. Finally, it is important to note that four new trends in social media research appeared between 2011 and 2016, namely, big data, netnography, Travel 2.0 and Web 2.0. Research limitations/implications While this study made significant contributions to the social media literature, some limitations do exist. For example, the current research excluded publications from major conferences, books, book chapters and dissertations. Additionally, it is not within the scope of this paper to take into account issues related to self-citations. Practical implications The results obtained from analysis contribute to a comprehensive understanding of social media research progress in hospitality and tourism. For example, evaluating the performance of individual scholars helps educational institutions to compete in the global university ranking system. Additionally, to compete for funding opportunities on the topic of social media, institutions can use citation counts to demonstrate their competitiveness. Furthermore, due to the expected future growth in the number of social media platforms, practitioners need to understand motivating factors and tourists’ needs in different countries, target market segments, age groups and cultures to create highly engaging communities around their brands. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the sample of this study synthesized the largest selection of social media articles published in hospitality and tourism journals. This is the first study to apply the fractional score at the author level, the adjusted appearance score at the university level and the average citation score at the journal and inter-country levels in the analysis. In addition, prevalent research orientations and research trends in social media made significant contributions to existing literature.

scholarly journals @stephanjoubert: Tweeting the gospel aphoristically

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan A. Van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Do So

This contribution focusses on some of the digital theological expressions of Stephan Joubert from an auto-ethnographic angle. Orientating from a practical theology perspective, I have chosen the social media platform Twitter, and more specifically the @stephanjoubert domain, as source to chart some significant tweet expressions for the purpose of describing the character and value of an aphoristic theology. In order to do so, I have used some randomly selected tweets of Stephan Joubert, spanning the period 2020–2021, which express aspects of a relevant contemporary ecclesiology. Against the backdrop of the disastrous impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as some important dates on the Christian calendar (Easter and Christmas), I specifically emphasise the significance of the formulation of an aphoristic theology using amongst other markers of simplicity, contextuality and relevance.Contribution: I conclude the reflection with some critical-evaluative remarks on the significance of aphoristic expressions for the development of a meaningful contemporary ecclesiology and theology.

scholarly journals Loneliness among Middle-Aged and Older Middle-Aged Adults in Russia (Saint Petersburg) before and during COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 9889
Author(s):  
Olga Strizhitskaya ◽  
Marina Petrash ◽  
Inna Murtazina ◽  
Gayane Vartanyan ◽  
Anton Shchukin
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Data ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Emotional Loneliness ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
The Social ◽  
General Experience ◽  
Middle Aged Adults

Loneliness has been considered a major challenge since long before the pandemic. Changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic included modifications in social communications and activities. Thus, it was expected that loneliness would increase during the pandemic. The first studies of loneliness during the pandemic revealed inconsistent results. We hypothesized that physical isolation led to changes in the quality of relationships; thus, loneliness trends could be different from those predicted. For our study we used methods to measure loneliness: the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale (SELSA-S) for Adults and Older Adults; the Multidimensional Inventory of Loneliness Experience; and demographic data. Participants were middle-aged and older middle-aged adults (n = 457) aged 35–59 (M = 45.5, SD = 6.88, 35.4% males). Participants came from two studies: Study 1 consisted of 280 participants aged 35–59 (M = 44.8; SD = 6.93; 29.6% males), the study was conducted before the pandemic in late 2019; participants in Study 2 were adults (n = 177) aged 35–59 (M = 46.5; SD = 6.68; 44.6% males), data were collected in the fall of 2020. The results did not confirm increase in loneliness; moreover, participants reported lower scores of loneliness in some domains. Regression analyses showed that general experience of loneliness was predicted by different loneliness characteristics in pre-pandemic and pandemic age groups. We found some similar mechanisms that were activated within different situations. Our results confirmed the complex nature of loneliness, they argue that pandemic effects were not limited to increase in loneliness and that the mechanism of loneliness can adjust to environmental factors.

scholarly journals Cyber Bullying Detection on Social Media using Machine Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 410-416
Author(s):  
K. Mahesh ◽  
Suwarna Gothane ◽  
Aashish Toshniwal ◽  
Vinay Nagarale ◽  
Harish Gopu
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
Social Networking Websites ◽  
The Social ◽  
In The Beginning

From the day internet came into existence, the era of social networking sprouted. In the beginning, no one may have thought internet would be a host of numerous amazing services like the social networking. Today we can say that online applications and social networking websites have become a non-separable part of one’s life. Many people from diverse age groups spend hours daily on such websites. Despite the fact that people are emotionally connected together through social media, these facilities bring along big threats with them such as cyber-attacks, which includes cyberbullying.

The Economic and Potential Years of Life Lost from Suicide in Taiwan, 1997–2007

Crisis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Kin Law ◽  
Paul S. F. Yip ◽  
Ying-Yeh Chen
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
High Risk Population ◽  
Years Of Life Lost ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Suicide Intervention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lifetime Earnings

Background: Taiwan has experienced a marked increase in the suicide rate in the last decade. However, the socioeconomic burden and impact to the community has not been adequately assessed. Aims: This study aimed to estimate the social and economic burden of premature mortality from suicide in Taiwan in 1997–2007. Methods: The suicide rate, potential years of life lost (PYLL), and present value of lifetime earnings (PVLE) by sex and age groups in 1997–2007 were calculated. The contribution of each suicide method to PYLL for each age group was also assessed. Results: Using the PYLL calculations, suicide had become the third leading cause of death in Taiwan in 2007, compared to its ninth position in terms of absolute numbers. Furthermore, the PYLL was associated with an estimated NTD (New Taiwan Dollars) 32.5 billion of lost earnings in 2007. The increase in PYLL and PVLE from suicide was highest in middle-aged men (aged 25–59 years). Charcoal burning suicide accounted for most of the increase in PYLL in the middle-aged group in the past decade. Conclusions: The loss of life in middle-aged males contributes disproportionately to the social and economic burden of suicide in Taiwan. Suicide intervention effort should target this high-risk population.

‘All the Lads and Lasses’: lexical variation in Tyne and Wear

English Today ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Beal ◽  
Lourdes Burbano-Elizondo
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Sexual Partner ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Clear Correlation ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Lexical Variation ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1950S

Taking as our starting-point the results of an investigation conducted on data collected in the 1950s for the Survey of English Dialects (SED) (Glauser, 1985), in this paper we look at data collected between forty and fifty years after the SED to examine variation in the semantic fields BOYS/GIRLS; SONS/DAUGHTERS. Glauser's SED data consisted of single-word responses mainly from older male informants to questions such as: ‘Children may be of either sex: they're either….boys, or …. girls.’1 (Orton, 1962: 89), but we have examined data from two more recent sources – the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE) and Burbano-Elizondo's (2008) study of linguistic variation in Sunderland – in order to ascertain which words occur in these semantic fields. Whilst Glauser's observation that lad is elicited more frequently than lass is borne out, we find that, in the sense of ‘sexual partner’, where these words do not appear in the SED data, lass is used more frequently than lad in the more recent data from Tyneside and Sunderland. We also find that, whilst there is no clear correlation between use of the words lad and lass and the social class of speakers, males use both these words more than females.

scholarly journals Sportswomen and Social Media: Bringing Third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism, and Neoliberal Feminism Into Conversation

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 359-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Thorpe ◽  
Kim Toffoletti ◽  
Toni Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Third Wave Feminism ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Single Approach ◽  
Do So

In this article, we take seriously the challenges of making sense of a sporting (and media) context that increasingly engages female athletes as active, visible, and autonomous, while inequalities pertaining to gender, sexuality, race, and class remain stubbornly persistent across sport institutions and practices. We do so by engaging with three recent feminist critiques that have sought to respond to the changing operations of gender relations and the articulation of gendered subjectivities, namely, third-wave feminism, postfeminism, and neoliberal feminism, and applying each to the same concrete setting—the social media self-representation of Hawaiian professional surfer Alana Blanchard. In aiming to conceptually illustrate the utility of these three feminist critiques, we are not advocating for any single approach. Rather, we critically demonstrate what each offers for explaining how current discourses are being internalized, embodied, and practiced by young (sports)women, as they make meaning of, and respond to, the conditions of their lives.

An Investigation of the Portrayal of Social Media Challenges on YouTube and Twitter

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Amro Khasawneh ◽  
Kapil Chalil Madathil ◽  
Heidi Zinzow ◽  
Pamela Wisniewski ◽  
Amal Ponathil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Contagion Effect ◽  
Online Behavior ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education And Awareness ◽  
Viral Nature ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Psychological Risks ◽  
Do So

A social media phenomenon that has received limited research attention is the advent and propagation of viral online challenges. Several of these challenges entail self-harming behavior, which, combined with their viral nature, poses physical and psychological risks for both participants and viewers. The objective of this study is to identify the nature of what people post about the social media challenges that vary in their level of risk. To do so, we conducted a qualitative analysis of three viral social media challenges, the Blue Whale, Tide Pod, and Ice Bucket challenges, based on 180 YouTube videos, 3,607 comments on those YouTube videos, and 450 Twitter posts. We identified common themes across the YouTube videos, comments, and Twitter posts: (1) promoting education and awareness, (2) criticizing the participants, (3) providing detailed information about the participants, (4) giving viewers a tutorial on how to participate, and (5) attempting to understand this seemingly senseless online behavior. We used social norm theory to discuss what leads people to post about the challenges and how posts intended to raise awareness about harmful challenges could potentially create a contagion effect by spreading knowledge about them, thereby increasing participation. Finally, we proposed design implications that could potentially minimize the risks and propagation of harmful social media challenges.

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