SOCIAL MEDIA AND PARA SOCIAL INTERACTION AMONG LEBANESE YOUNG ADULTS

Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are web-based facilities that allow for social interaction, sharing, communication and collaboration in today's world. In the current study, patterns of use of social media among students at a public Midwestern university are examined. In addition, students were surveyed regarding concerns for privacy and trust and whether concerns differed by gender, ethnicity, employment and relationship status. The survey data gathered from students suggest that students mostly used SNSs from less than one hour to about 3 hours a day and for communication and maintaining relationships. Students also had academic uses for SNSs. Even though concerns for privacy and trust exist, they did not differ by gender, employment and relationship status and students are still willing to use SNSs. The findings from this research have implications for various stakeholders especially instructors who may be considering the use of SNS for academic purposes.

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“Hey, Look at My Body!”

International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies ◽

10.4018/ijicst.2014010103 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 31-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Lik Sam Chan ◽

Hing Weng Eric Tsang

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Body Image ◽

Young Adults ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Body Image Satisfaction ◽

Privacy Concerns ◽

Privacy Risks ◽

The Relationship

This article considers the phenomenon of online body display by users of social networking sites in Hong Kong. A survey of 392 young adults was conducted to investigate the relationships between narcissism, grandiose exhibitionism, body image satisfaction, perceived privacy risks, and online body display. A Body Display Index was developed to measure the perceived level of sexual explicitness of photographs shared by Facebook users. Grandiose exhibitionism, a sub-trait of narcissism, was found to be a stronger predictor of online body display than narcissism. The relationship between body image satisfaction and online body display was not significant, and no relationship was found between such displays and perceived privacy risks, thus implying a lack of social media-related privacy concerns among the respondents.

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Digital Forensic Investigation of Social Media, Acquisition and Analysis of Digital Evidence

International Journal of Strategic Engineering ◽

10.4018/ijose.2019010105 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 52-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Reza Montasari ◽

Richard Hill ◽

Victoria Carpenter ◽

Farshad Montaseri

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Instant Messaging ◽

Digital Evidence ◽

Forensic Investigation ◽

Digital Forensic ◽

Photo Sharing ◽

Investigation Process

Various social networking sites (SNSs), widely referred to as social media, provide services such as email, blogging, instant messaging and photo sharing for social and commercial interactions. SNSs are facilitating new forms of social interaction, dialogue, exchange and collaboration. They allow millions of users and organisations worldwide to exchange ideas, post updates and comments or participate in activities and events, while sharing their wider interests. At the same time, such a phenomenon has led to an upsurge in significant criminal activities by perpetrators who are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their attempts to deploy technology to circumvent detection. Digital forensic Examiners (DFEs) often face serious challenges in relation to data acquisition. Therefore, this article aims to analyse the significance of SNSs in DFIs and challenges that DFEs often encounter when acquiring evidence from SNSs. Furthermore, this article describes the steps of the digital forensic investigation process that must be taken to acquire digital evidence that is both authentic and forensically sound.

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“Hey, Look at My Body!”

Internet and Technology Addiction ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8900-6.ch018 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 302-319

Author(s):

Lik Sam Chan ◽

Hing Weng Eric Tsang

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Body Image ◽

Young Adults ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Body Image Satisfaction ◽

Privacy Concerns ◽

Privacy Risks ◽

The Relationship

This article considers the phenomenon of online body display by users of social networking sites in Hong Kong. A survey of 392 young adults was conducted to investigate the relationships between narcissism, grandiose exhibitionism, body image satisfaction, perceived privacy risks, and online body display. A Body Display Index was developed to measure the perceived level of sexual explicitness of photographs shared by Facebook users. Grandiose exhibitionism, a sub-trait of narcissism, was found to be a stronger predictor of online body display than narcissism. The relationship between body image satisfaction and online body display was not significant, and no relationship was found between such displays and perceived privacy risks, thus implying a lack of social media-related privacy concerns among the respondents.

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Problems and Prospects of Social Media Recruitment

Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development - Transforming Human Resource Functions With Automation ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4180-7.ch005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 82-103

Author(s):

Teena Saharan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Significant Contribution ◽

The Future ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

The Right ◽

Talent Acquisition ◽

The Way

Over the last few years, the way of talent acquisition has evolved in different forms from attracting personal applications to getting connected with talented candidates through social networking sites. Recruitment through social networking platforms is putting a significant contribution in analyzing and hiring the right and best talent for an opening, and companies can't just ignore the potential and influence of these media platforms. These social platforms connect companies to potential hires and increase visibility by getting them connected to a huge audience. The future of recruitment lies in social media and companies cannot just ignore their presence due to prevailing challenges. It is important to find out viable solutions to the challenges organizations facing while using social media platforms in talent acquisition. The focus of this chapter is to capture strategies mitigating these challenges and suggest probable and profitable suggestions to companies for better utilization of social networking sites for effective recruitment.

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Social Media and Alcohol Use

Public Health and Welfare ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1674-3.ch021 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 437-456

Author(s):

Gulzar H. Shah ◽

Moya L. Alfonso ◽

Nina Jolani

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Young Adults ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Deleterious Effect ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Daily Life ◽

Differential Association ◽

And Behavior

The use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) has become an integral part of daily life, particularly for adolescents. The chapter examines the negative impact of social networking sites and how they may expose alcohol-related consumption and behavior to young adults, especially college students. In particular, the focus is on the use of two specific social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter, and their association with alcohol use. The review of existing literature reveals that the depiction of alcohol use on social networking sites has a deleterious effect on alcohol use through the creation of positive social norms toward use and abuse. Further, the chapter looks at the Theory of Differential Association to explain the use of SNS as a pivot to increased alcohol use by adolescents and young adults.

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Examining the influential factors for continued social media use

Industrial Management & Data Systems ◽

10.1108/imds-05-2018-0221 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 119 (5) ◽

pp. 1104-1127 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Qian Liu ◽

Zhen Shao ◽

Jian Tang ◽

Weiguo Fan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Network ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Social Networking ◽

Information Sharing ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Media Influence ◽

Content Type

Purpose Drawing upon the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the self-regulation framework, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether and how factors for social media continuance behaviors work differently between social networking sites and microblogging. Design/methodology/approach A survey method was used to collect two samples of 557 social networking sites users and 568 microblogging users. The proposed research model was tested with the structural equation modeling technique. Findings The empirical results demonstrate that the impacts of influencing factors on users’ continuance behaviors vary by types of social media services. Information sharing has a stronger impact on microblog users’ satisfaction than social network users while social interaction has a stronger impact on satisfaction for social network users than microblog users. In addition, interpersonal influence is more effective in shaping satisfaction for the social network users while media influence is more effective in shaping satisfaction for the microblog users. Originality/value This is one of the first studies that integrate TPB with Bagozzi’s self-regulation framework to understand the behavioral model of social networking and microblogging continuance. The findings show that the impacts of attitudinal beliefs regarding information sharing and social interaction on social media users’ satisfaction are different across social networking and microblogging contexts. Moreover, this study also reveals different effects of two specific subjective norms – interpersonal and media influence – on continued use of social networking and microblogging.

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Facebook, Ritual and Community – Memorialising in Social Media

Ethnologia Fennica ◽

10.23991/ef.v42i0.59284 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anna Haverinen

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Social Networking ◽

20Th Century ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Personal Experience ◽

The Internet ◽

Digital Multimedia ◽

Bereavement Care ◽

Social Networking Website

Social networking websites and applications have become the defining factor of online social interaction in the 2010s. Their popularity and addictiveness are based on their ability to convey all aspects of human emotions, from love to hate, from envy to happiness, from humour to sadness, from life to death. However, all social networking sites, especially Facebook (abbreviated FB), have been facing the fact that some of their users have been dying and other people want to use the websites to reminisce about and mourn their loved ones. In a study on virtual memorials conducted already more than a decade ago, communication theorists de Vries and Rutherford argued that online memorials are ‘the postmodern opportunity for ritual and remembrance’ (2004, 2). More recent studies have suggested that the internet ‘brings death back into everyday life’ (Walter et al. 2011, 295), since death and mourning cultures have undergone significant changes during the 20th century (Ariès1981 [1977], 1974; Pentikäinen 1990; Walter 1994). In this article, I will examine how commemoration and bereavement rituals (i.e. mourning rituals) are practiced on the Facebook social networking website, and how they build and maintain existential or spontaneous communitas, the transient personal experience of togetherness, at a time of loss (Turner 1995 [1969], 130–133). By mourning rituals, I am referring to the symbolised manner of communicating bereavement, care, love and affection at a time of loss. They are practices that function as socially approved symbols of emotions (Walter 1994, 77), which are intended to keep the community, friends and family of the deceased together at the time of loss (Bell 1992; Sumiala 2010; see also Durkheim 1980 [1912] and van Gennep (1960 [1909]). For example, the Finnish phrase ‘I’m sorry for your loss’ essentially means ‘I take part in your loss’, which symbolically refers to a way of taking on some of the grief and sharing the loss together with the bereaved. Flower wreaths, candles and other mementos are also familiar ways of expressing grief, especially at memorials — both online and offline. Mourning rituals in Web environments, however, are mediated by digital multimedia: images, video and text.

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Social Media and Alcohol Use

Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities - Implications of Social Media Use in Personal and Professional Settings ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-7401-1.ch002 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 25-44

Author(s):

Gulzar H. Shah ◽

Moya L. Alfonso ◽

Nina Jolani

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Young Adults ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Deleterious Effect ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Daily Life ◽

Differential Association ◽

And Behavior

The use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) has become an integral part of daily life, particularly for adolescents. The chapter examines the negative impact of social networking sites and how they may expose alcohol-related consumption and behavior to young adults, especially college students. In particular, the focus is on the use of two specific social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter, and their association with alcohol use. The review of existing literature reveals that the depiction of alcohol use on social networking sites has a deleterious effect on alcohol use through the creation of positive social norms toward use and abuse. Further, the chapter looks at the Theory of Differential Association to explain the use of SNS as a pivot to increased alcohol use by adolescents and young adults.

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Social Media Monster: A Great Challenge for The Youth

International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology ◽

10.48175/ijarsct-839 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 109-113

Author(s):

Dhiraj Yadav ◽

Vinay Yadav

Keyword(s):

Adverse Effect ◽

Social Media ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Social Networking ◽

Search Engine ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Human Interaction ◽

Male And Female ◽

Social Events ◽

Present Generation

In this rapidly changing advents of science and technology, Social Media has captured and ensnared young and old, rich and poor, male and female, east and west across the globe. Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Skype, YouTube are gaining popularity with pace of time and due to their attractive features the youth of today is fascinated towards them. On the contrary, the seamy side of social media consistently inflicting its adverse effect, the youth tends to distract themselves from their study, profession, remain aloof from physical social interaction from parents, relatives, nears and dears, ignored significant social events in their lives and sometimes fell prey to mischievous activities also. Scholars have explored that with the advent of technology and augmented sphere of internet services of search engine such as Google or DuckDuckGo, the human interaction has acquired a new domain of virtual dimension of networking systems prevalent across the globe. The present generation ambivalently sharing the same snare of social net working conundrum which is completely immersed in limbo or touching the apex of desire of learning as trio Satya Nadella(CEO of Microsoft),Shiva Nadar or Sunder Pichai (CEO of Google &Alphabet) et al.

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