scholarly journals Social Media Monster: A Great Challenge for The Youth

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.

Social Networking Sites

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-75
Author(s):  
Lydia Kyei-Blankson ◽  
Kamakshi S. Iyer ◽  
Lavanya Subramanian
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Relationship Status ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Use Of Social Media

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.

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-60 ◽  
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.

Social Media - A study to explore its Role and Contribution in Promoting Peace

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukta Martolia
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The People ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Arab Spring

In today’s world, the internet technology has grown widely, and social media have become a new platform to connect people. We see the use of social media to bridge the divides between different ethnic and religious groups and fostering inter-ethnic dialogues. Recently we have witnessed the Arab Spring, the Jan Lokpal Bill of Anna Hazare, and many such cases that have proved the power of social media. Thus, we can say that this was just the beginning of a wave, an era in the use of social networks to bring people together to fight and protest against violence. The power of social media cannot be ignored today. It has become essential and easy medium to reach a large number of audiences and has become a vital element of today’s life. The social media has proved itself to be a powerful tool for the promotion of peace and has provided not only national but international platform, which allows people to make a positive difference. Social media can be a powerful tool to mobilize people to build peace. With an estimation of around 200 million-plus blogs, more than 120 million YouTube videos and over 500 million Facebook users worldwide, we know that online social networking is a form of human interaction with enormous impact. It is a well-known fact that media affects the minds and behaviors of young people. If media and technology combined together, it can save lives. Thus, the main objective of the study was to evaluate the strength and weaknesses of social media as a tool in facilitating peace in Conflict Situation. The study also tried to analyze and figure out the contribution of social media in promoting peace and preventing violence. For the study various blogs were considered, who were working to bind the people of Northeast India together. Many social networking sites were studied as well to explore many facts.

scholarly journals The use of social-networking sites in English language education: An exploratory study using SWOT analysis technique

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4640-4650
Author(s):  
Sana Nazir Ahmed, Furrakh Abbas, Azhar Majeed Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
English Language ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
English Language Education ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Analysis Technique

The global importance of English as the language of international communication needs no description. English has gained competitive edge and is considered a requirement in order to make progress in the global world. There is bulk of research dedicated to finding better means of learning and teaching English language. The current research aims at exploring the potential of using social networking sites for improving English language skills especially in the skill areas of reading and writing. The research proposes to analyze the opinion of the participants by using SWOT analysis technique. This techniques dissects the themes from the data under strength, weakness, opportunity and threat in order to draw the picture of the potential of anything, In the current research, SWOT analysis technique was used to organize the data in the themes mentioned here. The study concludes that the use of social networking sites in English language education has marvelous potential as the students learn with ease of mind. The language is learnt in without any affective filters like anxiety or lack of motivation. Though social media sites can be effective platforms, their use may also distract the language learners with all their misinformation, ungrammatical content, and artificial human interaction. The study implicates that there is need to formulate effective strategies for proximal advantage of the strengths and countering the weaknesses and threats in order to make the best of the opportunities provided by social media sites in English language education.

Is Selfie a New Cause of Increasing Rhinoplasties?

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (04) ◽  
pp. 423-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erdoğan Özgür ◽  
Cemal Cingi ◽  
Nuray Muluk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Face ◽  
Aesthetic Procedures

AbstractThe digital world and social media are becoming increasingly important. Social media connect people together in a visual manner. Profile photographs are required by most social networking sites. A trend toward the increasing popularity of selfies on social media has rendered people more aware of their appearance. A selfie is a photograph that one takes of oneself, usually employing a smartphone or webcam, which is then shared on social media. Thus, the demand for aesthetic procedures correcting imperfections such as a prominent nose has increased, for which the technique is a rhinoplasty. Patients with reasonable expectations, treated by skilled surgeons, are usually very happy with the results. Rhinoplasty does not cure low self-esteem, but does correct more visible imperfections of the face. Although some hope that a rhinoplasty will resolve many unwanted facial features besides nose problems, it can only change the size and shape of the nose, improving its form. However, in the age of the selfie, everyone wants to look better. Self-consciousness is increasing, as are concerns over grooming and appearance at work and social events. These issues have become more important in recent years with the increase in selfie-taking; people are now more aware of how their nose appears to others. In this review, we discuss whether selfie-taking has triggered a rise in rhinoplasties along with a detailed survey of the literature.

Examining the influential factors for continued social media use

2019 ◽  
Vol 119 (5) ◽  
pp. 1104-1127 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Facebook, Ritual and Community – Memorialising in Social Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
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.  

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA AND PARA SOCIAL INTERACTION AMONG LEBANESE YOUNG ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Samir Araigy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Parasocial Interaction ◽  
The Future

This research is designed to see the level of parasocial interaction among Lebanese young adults aged 18-35 years old. The data of 50 respondents were analyzed using the descriptive technique. The results showed that the level of parasocial interaction among Lebanese young adults is neutral. Results also showed that Instagram is the most used social networking sites to follow celebrities. In addition, the time spent on social media among Lebanese young adults is 3-5 hours per day, which might increase the level of parasocial interaction in the future.

scholarly journals Facebook Mania of Youth and Satisfaction of their Needs in Pakistan: A uses and Gratification Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Azam Jan ◽  
Muhammad Imran Mehsud ◽  
Malik Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Time Duration ◽  
Uses And Gratification ◽  
Facebook Use

The consumption of social media has become a universal phenomenon. Everyone around the globe makes use of social networking media in its own way and style. Some users are found engaged in social media use around the clock, whereas others make use of the same for varying time duration. Some of the users use social networking sites just to kill time while others use these sites for the satisfaction of their social and psychological needs. This paper intended to investigate the consumption pattern of Facebook to ascertain how maniac the students are in use of the site. The study also aimed at exploring the satisfaction of youth’s needs through Facebook use. The intended needs the users were supposed to satisfy by making use of Facebook included information, social interaction and entertainment. The study was quantitative in nature and employed survey method as the research design. The data was gathered through a questionnaire from 181 respondents drawn as a sample from the two southern universities of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. In the sample, 137 were male students, whereas 44 were female students of Kushhal Khan Khattak University Karak and Kohat University of Science and Technology Kohat. The questionnaire consisted of four items, such as respondents’ consumption pattern, and the needs of information, social interaction, and entertainment. Collected data were analyzed through SPSS version 23. The findings revealed that most of the students, both male and female, spent a fair amount of time in Facebook use to gratify their social and psychological needs of information, social interaction, and entertainment.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document