scholarly journals The Usage of Social Media: Visibility Elements and Business Growth Among Entrepreneurs’ Society in Terengganu

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-193
Author(s):  
Khalid Amin Mat ◽  
Siti Rapidah Omar Ali ◽  
Nur Shafini Mohd Said ◽  
Nasiha Abdullah ◽  
Muhammad Hafiz Husain
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Cronbach Alpha ◽  
Customer Behaviour ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Content Information

The aim of the study is to analyse the relationship between visibility elements using social media that contribute most to business growth among Entrepreneurs Society in Terengganu. A questionnaire consisting of seven sections (A-G) was distributed to collect the needed information: Section A, the respondents’ demographic background; Section B, the construction of business page; section C, the establishment of community; section D, content information management; section E, analysing customer behaviour is studied; section F, market optimization opportunities; and section G, business growth. The population for this research is 87 entrepreneurs from the Entrepreneurs Society in Terengganu and from that amount 76 respondents had successfully participated. The Statistical Package for the Social Science version 25 is used to examine the result of this study. Research has revealed that the established reliability of the measurement is very strong. Cronbach Alpha is a coefficient correlation that indicates how well all the items of the average in a set of positive correlation to one another. Result of the reliability of analysis for business growth shows that Cronbach Alpha are the right tools to used. The mean of value for all variables are strong. The Pearson correlation for the relationship of business growth with construction of business page, establishment of community, content information management, and analysing customer behaviour are positive relationship with significant value of P<0.05. For conclusion, for hypothesis one until hypothesis four, the construction of business page, establishment of community, content management information, and analysing customer behaviour have significant relationship with business growth. Researchers found out that four hypotheses are accepted, and one is rejected which is the measurement of business growth. Lastly, the researchers are hoping that all entrepreneurs and business organization can gain benefit from this study.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Leisure Satisfaction and Social Media Addictions of Individuals at University

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 507
Author(s):  
Yesim Avunduk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Leisure Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Social Media Addiction ◽  
Pearson Correlation Test ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to determine the relationship between leisure satisfaction and social media addiction of university students. The study group of the research was formed by the voluntary participation of 193 students (133 male and 60 female), studying at the School of Physical Education and Sports of Istanbul Gelişim University. In addition to the personal information form, the “Leisure Satisfaction Scale (LSS)” developed by Beard and Raghep (1980) and adapted into Turkish by Gökçe and Orhan (2011), and the “Social Media Addiction Scale (SMAS)” developed by Bakır Ayğar and Uzun (2018) were used as data collection tools. After the data showed normal distribution in the Kolmogrov-Smirnov normality test, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson Correlation test were used in the analysis. The level of significance in the study was set at 0.05. In the research findings; gender and age groups of individuals affect their leisure time satisfaction levels; It has also been found that age groups affect social media addiction. As a result, it was determined that leisure satisfaction levels and social media addiction changed according to various variables of university students, and a negative significant relationship was found between leisure satisfaction and social media addiction.

scholarly journals Social Media and the Emergence, Establishment and Transformation of the Right-Wing Populist Finns Party

Populism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-139
Author(s):  
Tuukka Ylä-Anttila
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
The Right ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Inside Out

Abstract This paper assesses the significance of social media for the Finns Party and the related anti-immigration movement from 2007 to the present day, in light of theories on the relationship of populism and social media. These include people-centrism, disenfranchisement, homophily, the attention economy, media elitism, and (lack of) communicative resources. Tracing the historical trajectory of the Finnish anti-immigration movement and the Finns Party, I argue that the Finnish case is an example of a movement being born online and using social media to build a political identity and strategically gain influence through a party, eventually transforming it from the inside out—rather than the party strategically using social media for its purposes, as is sometimes assumed in party-centric literature. While acknowledging the continued importance of parties, research on contemporary populist movements must take into account the political engagement of citizens facilitated by online media.

scholarly journals The Prediction of Atherosclerosis Index Based on Photoplethysmograph

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yibing Li ◽  
Fei Xie ◽  
Xiaoye Ren ◽  
Fenyun Cao
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Pulse Wave ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Stiffness Index ◽  
Reflection Index ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Right ◽  
Bp Neural Network Model ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Coefficient Method

Current atherosclerosis (AS) assessment devices have a disadvantage for users to carry around. In response to this shortcoming, we propose to collect the wrist photoplethysmograph (PPG) signal and create models to predict the indicators of atherosclerosis (cardiovascular age and right brachial and ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV)). This study uses the maximum correlation coefficient method for feature selection and establishes multiple models to predict cardiovascular age and the right baPWV. The study results show that the prediction of cardiovascular age using the backpropagation (BP) neural network model is the best. Its Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) is 0.9501 ( P < 0.05 ), and the model finds the best six physiological features as crest time (CT), crest time ratio (CTR), slop K, stiffness index (SI), reflection index (RI), and heart rate (HR). When predicting the right baPWV value on the right side, we propose a hybrid method MLR_BP, which has better experimental results than BP and MLR. The MLR_BP model improves the prediction accuracy, the predicted PCC value is 0.9204 ( P < 0.05 ), and the model only needs two features, HR and cardiovascular age. This study further verified the results of related literature and proved the relationship between AS and related physiological parameters. The proposed method is applied to wearable devices and has an application value for diagnosing AS and preventing cardiovascular diseases.

scholarly journals Cognitive Behavioral of Using Social Media (Instagram) In Bengkayang Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Ester Dita Oktaviani Siregar ◽  
◽  
Desi Desi ◽  
Michael Bezaleel ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
P Value ◽  
Cognitive Behavior ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Positive Direction ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Cronbach Alpha ◽  
Study Approach

Background social media can be a friend or an easy to use means of communication. Instagram is the most used social media and active users of all ages. Social media (Instagram) affects cognitive behavior which can lead to changes in a person’s behavior, because a person’s behavior is influenced by what is known or understood. Objectives the purpose of this study is to know and describe cognitive behavior and the use of social media (Instagram) in students from Bengkayang, West Kalimantan who received a scholarship from the local government. Method quantitative with a cross sectional study approach. Respondents in the study are students from Bengkayang, West Kalimantan studying in UKSW, who met the research criteria. Research sample used purposive sampling of 39 respondents. The instrument used to collect data was a Cognitive Behavior of the Instagram Use Instruments. The results of the Cronbach alpha test for the cognitive behavior of Instagram users are 0,916 and the use of Instagram has a Cronbach alpha value of 0,664. Analysis of statistical test data using the SPSS version 20 program Pearson Product Moment, the significance value of p-value <0,05. Result the significance value of the research results showed that it was 0,000 < 0,05 with Pearson correlation 0,669 which shows the correlation between variables. Conclusion there is a strong correlation between cognitive behavior and social media use in a positive direction, which indicates that respondents use Instagram positively.

scholarly journals The mediating effect of social media addiction on the relationship between leisure boredom and loneliness

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-759
Author(s):  
Cihan Ayhan ◽  
Hande Baba Kaya ◽  
İlimdar Yalçın ◽  
Gizem Karakaş
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Bootstrap Method ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
School Students ◽  
Social Media Addiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Leisure Boredom ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to examine the mediating effect of social media addiction on the relationship between leisure boredom and loneliness. A total of 330 high school students in Istanbul, 212 male (64.2%) and 118 female (35.8%), participated in the study voluntarily. In the study, the "Leisure Boredom Scale" developed by Iso-Ahola and Weissinger (1990) to measure participants' perceptions of boredom in their leisure, the "UCLA Loneliness Scale" developed by Peplau and Cutrona (1980) to measure loneliness level, and the "Social Media Addiction scale for Adolescents" developed by Eijnden, Lemmens and Valkenburg (2016) to measure the social media addiction level, were used as data collection tools. The convenience sampling method, which is one of the random sampling methods, was used in the sample selection and the face-to-face survey technique was preferred. In the analysis of the obtained data, descriptive statistics via the SPSS package program, Pearson Correlation, and regression analysis of the indirect impact approach based on the Bootstrap method via PROCESS v3.5 macro were performed. As a result, it was observed that leisure boredom had statistically significant effects on social media addiction and loneliness, and social media addiction on loneliness. Besides, regarding the main aim of the research, it was determined that social media addiction had a mediating effect on the relationship between leisure boredom and loneliness. ​Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.   Özet Bu çalışmanın amacı serbest zamanda sıkılma algısı ile yalnızlık arasındaki ilişkide sosyal medya bağımlılığının aracı etkisinin incelenmesidir. Araştırma grubunu İstanbul’da lise düzeyinde öğrenim gören gönüllü olarak katılım sağlayan 212 erkek (%64,2), ve 118 kadın (%35,8) olmak üzere toplam 330 kişi oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmada katılımcıların serbest zamanlarında sıkılma algılarını ölçmek amacıyla Iso-Ahola ve Weissinger (1990) tarafından geliştirilen Boş Zaman Can Sıkıntısı Ölçeği, yalnızlık düzeyini ölçmek amacıyla Peplau and Cutrona (1980) tarafından geliştirilen UCLA Yalnızlık Ölçeği ve sosyal medya bağımlılık düzeylerini ölçmek amacıyla Eijnden, Lemmens ve Valkenburg (2016) tarafından geliştirilen Ergenler İçin Sosyal Medya Bağımlılığı Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Örneklem seçiminde tesadüfi örneklem yöntemlerinden olan kolayda örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmış ve yüz yüze anket tekniği tercih edilmiştir. Elde edilen verilerin analizinde SPSS paket programı aracılığıyla tanımlayıcı istatistikler, Pearson Correlation ve PROCESS v3.5 makro aracılığıyla Bootstrap yöntemini temel alan dolaylı etki yaklaşımına ilişkin regresyon analizi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre, serbest zamanda sıkılma algısının sosyal medya bağımlılığı üzerinde, serbest zamanda sıkılma algısının yalnızlık üzerinde, sosyal medya bağımlılığının yalnızlık üzerinde istatistiksel açıdan anlamlı etkilerinin olduğu görülmüştür. Ayrıca, araştırmanın temel amacına ilişkin olarak serbest zamanda sıkılma algısı ile yalnızlık arasındaki ilişkide sosyal medya bağımlılığının aracılık etkisi olduğu tespit edilmiştir.  

Social Media as an Alternative to Surveys of Opinions About the Economy

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931987569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick G. Conrad ◽  
Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch ◽  
Robyn A. Ferg ◽  
Michael F. Schober ◽  
Josh Pasek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Consumer Confidence ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Acceptable Alternative ◽  
Chance Occurrence ◽  
The Many ◽  
Measure Of Association ◽  
The Right ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
The Relationship

There is interest in using social media content to supplement or even substitute for survey data. In one of the first studies to test the feasibility of this idea, O’Connor, Balasubramanyan, Routledge, and Smith report reasonably high correlations between the sentiment of tweets containing the word “jobs” and survey-based measures of consumer confidence in 2008–2009. Other researchers report a similar relationship through 2011, but after that time it is no longer observed, suggesting such tweets may not be as promising an alternative to survey responses as originally hoped. But, it’s possible that with the right analytic techniques, the sentiment of “jobs” tweets might still be an acceptable alternative. To explore this, we first classify “jobs” tweets into categories whose content is either related to employment or not, to see whether sentiment of the former correlates more highly with a survey-based measure of consumer sentiment. We then compare the relationship when sentiment is determined with traditional dictionary-based methods versus newer machine learning-based tools developed for Twitter-like texts. We calculated daily sentiment in three different ways and used a measure of association less sensitive to outliers than correlation. None of these approaches improved the size of the relationship in the original or more recent data. We found that the many micro-decisions these analyses require, such as the size of the smoothing interval and the length of the lag between the two series, can significantly affect the outcomes. In the end, despite the earlier promise of tweets as an alternative to survey responses, we find no evidence that the original relationship in these data was more than a chance occurrence.

Social Media Usage, Psychosocial Wellbeing and Academic Performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 0272684X2110334
Author(s):  
Beneyam Lake Yimer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing ◽  
Dire Dawa ◽  
The Relationship

Psychosocial wellbeing questionnaires were administered to Dire Dawa Polytechnic college students ( n, 204) to examine the interrelationship of social media usage, psychosocial wellbeing, and academic performance. The result revealed that male students use social media for the reason of making new relationships and female participants used social media to maintain the relationship, those students who spend more time on Facebook followed by telegram and Whatsapp. Results of the Pearson correlation indicated that the academic performance of students negatively correlated and significantly with social media usage (telegram, Facebook, and Whatsapp), while they are positively correlated with self-esteem. Besides, depression correlated positively with telegram, Facebook, and Whatsapp usage. Facebook usage was significantly and negatively correlated with students' self-esteem and social anxiety. Moreover, female students were low self-esteem and more depressed than male students regarding social media usage. Students who had a low level of social media usage are better in their psychosocial wellbeing than those students who had a high and moderate level of media usage.

Self-Censorship in Social Media: A Case Study of Hacettepe University

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550010
Author(s):  
Bülent Yilmaz ◽  
Demet Soylu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Senior Students

In today's technological and information rich society, millions of people are using social media as part of online socialisation and virtual life. They create and share contents such as pictures, texts and videos. Social media takes on the role of being the platform in which individuals can freely express themselves. Individuals have the opportunity of networking in the form of creating and sharing content, brainstorming, chatting, and expressing opinions thanks to the reflective and refractive (Medeni and Medeni, 2012) characteristic of social media. But social media which is supposed to provide a space for free expression is subject to different forms of censorship. As a result, social media and censorship have become interwoven terms. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, individuals have the right to express their ideas, opinions freely regardless of the types of media used. Even though social media might be controlled in the same way as traditional media, it can be stated that censorship is taking many forms due to the emergence of the intelligence methods with the capability of governments to monitor and counteract social media (Papic and Noonan, 2011). In this study, self-censorship as well as the underlying causes of censorship in social media will be discussed. Censorship and self-censorship which are embedded within each other will be studied from psychological, sociological and linguistic aspects. The study explores the extent of self-censorship in social media using a population comprising of 37 senior students of Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University.

Luxury and Twitter: an issue of the right words

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Mazzoli ◽  
Laura Grazzini ◽  
Raffaele Donvito ◽  
Gaetano Aiello
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Brand Identity ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Brand Associations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Luxury Brand ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to provide scholars and practitioners with an innovative method of analyzing luxury brand associations in social media (i.e. Twitter). To do so, authors investigated the alignment between luxury brand identity and luxury brand image in online communication, taking into consideration firm- and user-generated content (UGC) in the form of bloggers’ contents. This paper introduces new tools that luxury brand managers could use to manage and adapt the way they communicate and interact with their customers. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a qualitative approach based on a content analysis of Twitter posts of six luxury fashion brands (1,334 posts) and the related Twitter electronic word-of-mouth of fashion bloggers (329 tweets). Findings The results show a match between luxury brand identity and luxury brand image on Twitter. Specifically, the findings indicate that both brands and bloggers stress the same dimensions of luxury (aesthetic, desirable, symbolic, restricted accessibility and hedonistic experience) confirming that the ways they communicate luxury brands to consumers are aligned. Moreover, the results suggest that luxury brands could reinforce their brand value by making more use of words that are semantically related to luxury. Originality/value This study approaches the relationship between social media and luxury brands in a novel way and provides scholars and managers with a tool for monitoring the gap between desired and perceived brand associations.

scholarly journals Hand anthropometry and its relation to grip/pinch strength in children aged 5 to 13 years

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 030006052097076
Author(s):  
Juan Wen ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Qu Xu ◽  
Yan Wei ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Middle Finger ◽  
Pinch Strength ◽  
Reference Ranges ◽  
Hand Shape ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Length Width ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

Objective To evaluate the development level of children’s physiological hand shape indicators and their relationship with grip/pinch strength. Methods Hand shape and grip/pinch strength in 1255 Chinese children aged 5 to 13 years were prospectively measured. Development curves of physiological hand shape indicators and grip/pinch strength were constructed. Results The physiological hand shape indicators (full length, middle finger length, width, and wrist thickness) and grip/pinch strength of boys and girls increased with age and showed statistically significant differences at different ages. In most age groups, hand shape indicators and grip/pinch strength were larger in boys than in girls of the same age. After puberty, the physiological hand shape indicators and grip/pinch strength increased more rapidly in girls than in boys of the same age, and the differences gradually decreased thereafter. Moreover, a significant difference in pinch strength between the right and left hands was observed in most age groups. Pearson correlation analysis showed that the physiological hand shape indicators were significantly positively correlated with grip/pinch strength, height, weight, and body mass index. Conclusions This study revealed the relationship between physiological hand shape indicators and grip/pinch strength and provided reference ranges of physiological hand shape indicators and grip/pinch strength for children.

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