Role of Social Media in promoting Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Anasuya Swain
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Empirical Study

scholarly journals Unveiling unseen climate practices on Instagram

Novos Olhares ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
Niina Uusitalo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
The Media ◽  
Climate Crisis

Climate change is often portrayed through stereotypical, extreme or controversial messages, with the role of human agency attached to consumption and demonstrations. Such depictions can be demotivating and cause issue fatigue. There is a need to broaden and elaborate our understanding of human connections to climate change. The aim of this paper is to identify a wide array of climate practices expressed by social media users. An empirical study of 42 Finnish ecological Instagram accounts was conducted. The textual and visual contents of climate-related posts were qualitatively analyzed to identify climate practices and the role visual images play in these representations. Six types of climate practices were identified in the data: detaching, reforming, transilluminating, persevering, caring and consolidating. The visualization of climate practices should be expanded in the media to broaden the understanding of potential human agency in the climate crisis.

scholarly journals Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fakhra Jabeen ◽  
Charlotte Gerritsen ◽  
Jan Treur
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Adaptive Network ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Adaptive Interaction

Abstract Social media like Twitter or Instagram play the role of fertile platforms for self-exhibition and allow their users to earn a good repute. People higher in grandiosity share their contents in a charismatic way and as a result, they are successful in gaining attention from others, which may also influence their responses and behaviors. Such attention and repute enable them to be a trendsetter or a socially recognized maven. In this paper, we present a complex adaptive mental network model of a narcissist to see how popularity can adaptively influence his/her behavior. To analyze and to support behavior showed by our model, we used some key performance indicators from the literature to study the popularity and narcissism of 30 Instagram profiles. The results of the—both computational and empirical—study indicate that our presented computational adaptive network model in general shows the behavior found from the empirical data.

scholarly journals Peran Pendidikan Agama Kristen Dalam Memerangi Berita Hoaks di Media Sosial

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Talizaro Tafonao ◽  
Prasetyo Yuliyanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Society Today

In this study, the author studies the role of Christian religious education in combating hoax on social media. This study begins with the author's empirical observation where these days hoax on social media becomes the main news that is endlessly discussed in public. As a result of many hoaxes on social media, there are many divisions between the people as expressed in this empirical study. If it is carefully observed that the main problem is not in the development of science and technology globally, but the problem is there are every person who uses the technology irresponsibly because humans are too spoiled with various facilities of technological sophistication so that there is no control when someone is free to express opinions in social media. Ironically this freedom is exploited to explore personal and group interests, without seeing the consequences of this dishonourable behaviour. By looking at these various facts, this study presents an effort to provide understanding and education to the public to participate in combating hoax on social media. The purpose of this study is to invite all Christians to contribute and care for the social problems that are troubling society today. Therefore it is time for the role of Christian Religion education to be applied through lifestyles by communicating honestly and get used to using ethics when surfing on social media. Tulisan ini merupakan kajian terhadap peran pendidikan agama kristen dalam memerangi berita hoaks di media sosial. Kajian ini berangkat dari pengamatan penulis secara empiris dimana hari-hari ini berita hoaks di media sosial menjadi berita utama yang tidak habisnya dibicarakan di publik. Akibat dari mewabahnya berita hoaks di media sosial maka tidak sedikit terjadinya perpecahan diantara masyarakat sebagaimana yang diungkapkan dalam tulisan ini seacara empiris. Jika diperhatikan dengan teliti bahwa unsur persolan sebenarnya bukan terletak pada perkembangan ilmu dan teknologi secara global, tetapi persoalannya adalah ada pada setiap oknum yang memanfaatkan teknologi tersebut karena manusia terlalu dimanjakan dengan berbagai fasilitas dari kecanggihan teknologi tersebut sehingga tidak ada kontrol ketika seseorang bebas mengeluarkan berpendapat di media sosial. Dengan melihat berbagai fonomena ini maka tulisan ini hadir sebagai upaya memberi pemahaman dan edukasi kepada masyarakatuntuk ikut berpatisipasi dalam memerangi berita hoaks di media sosial. Tujuan kajian ini mengajak seluruh umat Tuhan untuk berkontribusi dan peduli terhadap persolan-persoalan sosial yang sedang meresahkan masyarakat saat ini.

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