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Emotional expressions are ubiquitous in electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communication, but their effect on eWOM persuasiveness and the underlying mechanisms in the context of social networking services (SNS) have been underexplored. This research focuses on an extensively used nonverbal emotional cue in computermediated communication--the emoticon. Drawing on the emotion as social information model (EASI), we propose a conceptual framework to understand whether, how, and when emoticons influence the persuasiveness of eWOM on SNS. Results from a field experiment and a series of online experiments show that emoticons can increase eWOM persuasiveness through the mediating effects of enhanced recipient empathy and trust toward the sender and that these effects vary across situations. Specifically, the persuasive effect of emoticons occurs for both positive and negative eWOM when recipients and senders are close to each other. However, this effect occurs only for negative eWOM when recipients and senders have distant relationships. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings and identify several opportunities for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Systematic Literature Review (SLR) presented in the document focuses on the acceptance of social media (SM) platforms, particularly through the lens of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and other relevant theories. The review involves a comprehensive analysis of the most used theories of acceptance models, the methods for selecting studies, and the results and findings from the reviewed studies. The study also discusses the accomplishment of research goals and creates a research framework to guide future research. The geographic scope of the studies is also examined, providing insights into the distribution of studies across different countries. The review adheres to the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and meta-Analyses) guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and employs a theory-based approach, categorizing selected articles based on their theoretical foundations. The review’s methodology involves the use of empirical evidence that meets predetermined inclusion criteria and addresses specific research questions. The document provides a detailed account of the steps involved in the systematic review, including the identification, screening, eligibility determination, and selection of studies. The review also offers implications for theory and practice, addresses limitations, and suggests areas for future research.

Many social networking services (SNSs) have features that highlight the common friends of pairs of users. Previous research has examined recommendation systems that use mutual friend metrics, but few scholars have studied how the existence of features related to mutual friends affects users in SNSs. To explore this issue further, we conducted interviews with 22 users of WeChat Moments to investigate how certain rules involving mutual friends affect users and how they deal with the issues that arise due to these rules. We found that the three Moments rules related to mutual friends (response visibility, response notifications, and information dissemination) can cause users to feel jealous, annoyed, and embarrassed. To prevent these negative experiences, users may reduce the amount of information they disclose or the frequency of their interactions in SNSs. Based on these findings, we propose several future directions for scholars and a small number of design suggestions aimed at assisting providers to satisfy users' interaction needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public policy and administration debates typically assume that ICT tools, including social networking services (SNS), increase the amount of information that is communicated and thus harnessed for policymaking processes. At the same time, behavioral approaches point to the potentially detrimental effects of social media stress resulting from an overexposure to SNS. Because systematic research on the individual-level effects of SNS in policy formulation is rare, this paper explores the effect of SNS on the use of policy-relevant information and, thus, on individual political capacities. A moderated mediation analysis was performed based on survey data from central ministerial bureaucracies in Germany, Italy, and Norway, considering not only the amount of information utilized in legislative drafting but also the variability and concentration of the information sources. The results indicate that SNS positively relate to policy officials' information use, which, in turn, increases their self-reported political capacities. However, the positive relationship between SNS and both the amount and the variability of information use was found to be diminished when levels of social media stress are high rather than low. The conclusions discuss the implications for civil servants and policymaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction Design Methods Results Conclusion Clinical Relevance The effectiveness of health interventions delivered via a combination of in‐person and electronic social networking services for caregivers of stroke survivors remains uncertain. This study evaluates the feasibility of implementing educational and peer support programs for these caregivers through such platforms.Quasi‐experimental design.This study included 105 caregiver–survivor dyads, with 54 dyads allocated to the intervention group and the remaining 51 to the control group. The LINE intervention comprised a combination of in‐person and electronic social networking services including stroke and rehabilitation education, problem‐solving skills training, long‐term care information support, and 24‐h peer and professional support for caregivers. The outcomes were assessed at baseline, after 1 month, and after 3 months, and encompassed caregivers' care burden, depressive symptoms, perceived social support, and quality of life, as well as the rehabilitation adherence and depressive symptoms of stroke survivors. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine group differences. The data were collected between August 2021 and October 2022.The average age of the caregivers was 48.3 years. Caregivers in the intervention group reported reduced care burdens and enhanced perceptions of social support and quality of life as compared to those in the control group. Additionally, stroke survivors in the intervention group were less likely to exhibit high‐risk depressive symptoms.Delivering a stroke caregiver support intervention via in‐person and electronic social networking services, such as LINE, effectively reduced the care burden for caregivers of stroke survivors. Additionally, it enhanced caregivers' perceived social support and quality of life.This study demonstrated that caregiver education and peer support programs administered through a combination of in‐person and electronic social networking services can serve as an effective support system for the psychosocial health of stroke caregivers. These findings support the integration of such interventions into standard clinical practice by healthcare providers or governmental bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: People's socializing behavior in social networking services (SNS) presents dramatically different features, forming differentiated online social interaction patterns (DOSIP) in SNS. This study aims to explore the relationships between users' multidimensional psychological needs and multiple social interaction patterns in SNS. Design/methodology/approach: Based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs and use and gratifications (U&G) theory, the authors develop the research model to examine the effects of psychological needs on DOSIP. A survey is used to collect the data of SNS users' social interaction. The authors adopt structural equation modeling–neural network (SEM-NN) integrated method to examine the research model. Findings: Need to belong, need for self-esteem, need for social contact, need for emotional expression, need for cognition, and need for external-esteem have significant influences on both active and passive social interactions respectively. Originality/value: Based on the categorization of DOSIP into six types in terms of the level of activity and disclosure of social interaction, the authors construct an integrated research model of multidimensional psychological needs to multiple social interaction patterns, and validate the antecedents of DOSIP from the perspective of psychological needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The use of social networking services (SNS) by older adults within the context of the digital divide has become a hot topic. Several studies have shown that SNS use among older adults is related to their health status; however, few studies have examined the association between health and specific SNS platforms. Objective: This study investigates the relationship between older adults’ use of four major SNS platforms in Japan (LINE, Facebook, Twitter [now X], and Instagram) and the health of older adults. Subjective health and frequency of going out were used as health indicators. Method: A survey was conducted among participants in a health promotion program for older adults in Tokyo between 2020 and 2022. A total of 391 older adults participated in the study (M = 72.11 years, 65–86 years, 363 women). Results: Logistic regression analysis revealed that subjective health was higher in users of Facebook, Twitter [now X], and Instagram (but not LINE) compared to non-users. Frequency of going out was not associated with SNS use. Conclusions: Older adults with higher subjective health may be more likely to use SNS platforms due to their willingness to learn new skills and actively participate in social activities. Additionally, SNS may help improve the health of older adults by enabling communication with distant family and friends, even for those who are unable to go out frequently due to health problems.

Motives: Communication is the basis of existence of modern civilization. Nowadays, communication is part of the most intensive innovation processes. The level of formation of communication networks largely determines both the preconditions and the current development of regions. Aim: The aim of the study was to analyze the interdependencies between the level of socio-economic development of the examined areas and the formation of communication networks on the example of local territorial units of Western Ukraine. Results: The correlation analysis revealed significant links between communication networks and regional development. It is not always possible to determine the exact cause and effect in a specific case. The results of this study indicate that the socio-economic development of Western Ukraine has a more significant impact on the functioning of communication networks than the communication networks have on the socio-economic development. Like other natural and socio-economic resources, the presence of communication networks is a prerequisite for the development of the region. The emergence, perception and widespread use of new communications depend on several factors, one of which is the socio-economic development of a given area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The great Brazilian recession was the most marked drop in economic activity in Brazil between the end of the Second World War and the Covid-19 pandemics. This economic crisis may have long lasting and non-anticipated negative consequences on Food Insecurity (FI) and on Subjective Well-Being (SWB). In addition, SWB is increasing linked to the use of Social Networking Services (SNS). The paper used data from World Value Survey (WVS) and logistic and ordered logistic models to empirically test a few hypotheses. The empirical results showed that: FI is negatively correlated with life satisfaction, but not with happiness; FI is unrelated to SNS use as still few people use them and the population groups that suffer from FI insecurity poorly overlap with the one that use SNS daily; SWB had positive relationships with SNS when the use was not very widespread; Associations between SWB and SNS use became negative as SNS use became more widespread.

Masahito Katsuki,1,2 Maiko Nanri,3 Yuki Miyakoshi,4 Shuto Gobo,4 Akihito Koh,2 Shin Kawamura,2 Senju Tachikawa,2 Ryo Matsukawa,2 Kenta Kashiwagi,5 Mitsuhiro Matsuo,6 Fuminori Yamagishi7 1Department of Neurosurgery and Headache Outpatient, Japanese Red Cross Suwa Hospital, Nagano, Japan; 2Department of Neurosurgery, Itoigawa General Hospital, Niigata, Japan; 3Nurse-Senka, SMS Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; 4Creatone, Regnition, Saitama, Japan; 5Department of Neurology, Itoigawa General Hospital, Niigata, Japan; 6Department of Anesthesiology, Toyama University Hospital, Toyama, Japan; 7Department of Surgery, Itoigawa General Hospital, Niigata, JapanCorrespondence: Masahito Katsuki, Department of Neurosurgery, Japanese Red Cross Suwa Hospital, 5-11-50, Kogandori, Suwa, Nagano, 392-0027, Japan, Tel/Fax +81-0266-52-6111, Email ktk1122nigt@gmail.comIntroduction: Headache is a common public health problem, but its burden could be avoided by raising headache awareness and the appropriate use of acute medication and prophylactic medication. Few reports on raising headache awareness in the general public have been reported, and there are no reports on headache awareness campaigns through social networking services (SNS), or social media, in Japan. We prospectively performed a headache awareness campaign from March 2022 through 2 SNS, targeting nurse and wind instrumental musicians, because they are with high headache prevalence.Methods: Through the 2 SNS, the article and video were distributed, respectively. The article and video described the 6 important topics for the general public about headaches, which were described in the Clinical Practice Guideline for Headache Disorders 2021. Just after reading or watching them as e-learning, we performed online questionnaire sheets to investigate the awareness of the 6 topics through the 2 SNS. The awareness of the 6 topics before and after the campaign was evaluated.Results: In the SNS nurse-senka, we obtained 1191 responses. Women comprised 94.4%, and the median (range) age was 45 (20 to 71) years old. Headache sufferers were 63.8%, but only 35.1% had consulted doctors. In the SNS Creatone, we got the response from 134 professional musicians, with 77.3% of women. The largest number of respondents were in their 20s (range 18– 60 years old). Headache sufferers were 87.9%. Of them, 36.4% had consulted doctors, 24.2% were medication-overuse headache. The ratios of individuals who were aware of the 6 topics significantly increased from 15.2%-47.0% to 80.4– 98.7% after the online questionnaire in both SNS (p < 0.001, all).Conclusion: E-learning and online survey via SNS can improve headache awareness.Keywords: awareness, education, medication-overuse headache, migraine, online, prevention, social networking services, social media

Social networking services (SNS) such as Twitter play an important role in the collective knowledge, consensus of citizens and decision making regarding various countermeasures. In particular, since SNS have great power to communicate information in the context of disasters and pandemics, scientists and administrators are required to understand how peopleʼs collective knowledge and trust are formed through SNS and how to communicate risk and scientific information using SNS. Therefore, a special session entitled “Considering the state of scientific information dissemination during crises in the age of social networking” was held at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis Japan. Risk and scientific information dissemination using SNS regarding the Fukushima disaster was discussed: characteristics related to information diffusion on Twitter, the evaluation and fact check of information that influenced the evacuation behavior in Fukushima, and recommendations for scientific information dissemination in the age of SNS derived from these research findings. This paper introduces the contents of the presentations and discussions at the session. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Security systems are based on the monitoring of specific areas of the facility. The cameras record the selected place for the whole day. Unfortunately, it is difficult to automatically analyze the recorded situations mainly through manual analysis. In this paper, we propose an innovative automatic monitoring data analysis system. To minimize the amount of processed data, a heuristic-based method is proposed to analyze frames. Heuristic algorithm is adapted to image analysis. If the algorithm detects significant changes in pixel values, the frame is sent further to the convolutional neural network. The proposed solution is based on centralized federated learning that allows training a shared model on a local dataset. This guarantees surveillance recordings' privacy with a shared model. The proposal is a hybrid solution that was presented as a mathematical model, tested and compared with other known solutions. Based on conducted experiments, the proposed image processing system minimizes the number of calculations by the hybrid approach that can be valuable for IoT applications. The proposed solution is more effective than the existing solution due to the use of classifiers for the analysis of single frames. • Automatic analysis of video frames through the use of a heuristic algorithm. • Analysis of selected video frames through the use of deep neural networks. • A decision module for the analyzed data and operation automation. • The system is based on individual implementation with a federated learning approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To gain a heuristic understanding of the temporal dimension of privacy, we propose the concept of retrospective privacy concerns and explore its antecedents, through the lens of contextual integrity framework. We collected 276 respondents and then conducted partial least squares to test our hypotheses. The results show life change experiences and information relevance impact retrospective impression management concerns, which, in turn, exert an effect on retrospective privacy concerns. Information dissemination regarding sharing information to only selected friends perceived higher level of control than sharing information to all friends, while perceived control could enhance retrospective privacy concerns. Also, users who feel under surveillance would be concerned about their retrospective privacy. Moreover, we verify the effect of time on retrospective privacy concerns and information relevance. This work provides new insight into the temporal dimension of privacy and offers practical implications for designing temporal privacy tools to mitigate users' concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chao Liu,1 Dong Yang,2 Zhiyong Han2 1School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Business Administration, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Zhiyong Han, School of Business Administration, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, People’s Republic of China, Email hzyong@aufe.edu.cnPurpose: Although social networking services (SNSs) have attracted billions of people to maintain and extend their social relationships online, more and more passive usage behaviors have been found during the daily SNS usage. The aim of this paper is to investigate how SNS users’ continuance intention is affected by passive SNS use, subjective well-being, as well as perceived concern regarding privacy and impression management.Methods: A research model was developed according to the proposed hypotheses, and then partial least square (PLS) SEM was adopted to empirically assess the valid data collected from 389 WeChat users.Results: The findings show that passive SNS use cannot significantly undermine continuance intention, but it has a negative moderating effect on the relationship between subjective well-being and continuance intention. Besides, the results of empirical research also reveal the antecedents of passive SNS use and subjective well-being from the perspectives of privacy concern and impression management concern, and thereby present the mechanism underlying users’ continuance intention.Conclusion: This study enriches the SNS literature by indicating the moderating role of passive SNS use in the process of SNS usage, which facilitates the understanding regarding how users’ continuance intention can be influenced when they use SNSs passively. This study can help SNS providers to better understand the factors affecting users’ continuance intention in the case of passive SNS use, and then formulating effective strategies for retaining users and avoiding passive usage behaviors.Keywords: social networking services, passive SNS use, continuance intention, social well-being, WeChat

In an online social networking services (SNS) community, a group of users that have great influence on the other users are called opinion leaders. They have received much research attention because they are capable of influencing other people's purchasing behaviors. In this research, we investigate various motivational factors that influence SNS users' electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) intention. In addition, we examine the role of opinion leadership in e-WOM intention. By using survey methodology approach based on prior research, we collected data from 405 SNS users in the U.S. This research utilized the partial least squares technique for analysing empirical data. We find that intrinsic motivational factors embracing altruism, self-efficacy, and self-expression universally influence SNS users' e-WOM intention regardless of opinion leadership. However, extrinsic motivational factors comprising economic rewards, reputation feedback, and social ties only influence SNS users' e-WOM intention through opinion leadership. This research fills a gap in the literatures by establishing a comprehensive research framework including intrinsic and extinct driving forces on E-WOM intention. It emphasizes the significance of opinion leadership in the context of SNS users' purchasing behaviour. This study constructs a research model to discern the differences in the magnitude of impact between intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors on e-WOM intention via opinion leadership. Our results confirm that both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations positively affect SNS users' perceived opinion leadership. Our research findings imply that firms need to strengthen their efforts in fostering users' perceived opinion leadership to utilize e-WOM in SNS community if they want to use extrinsic motivational factors to promote e-WOM behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Efficient collaborative learning relies on productive interaction among learners. Previous studies have suggested that group gender composition might affect the group dynamics. While previous studies have generally focused on the learning performance of different gender groups, relatively little effort has been devoted to scrutinising the learning process. Therefore, this study seeks to further explore students' cognitive processing patterns in the collaborative learning process among different gender groups, namely, five female-only groups (4 female students in each group), five male-only groups (4 male students in each group), and five balanced-gender groups (2 male and 2 female students in each group). This study employed quantitative content analysis and lag sequential analysis to explore students' cognitive processing patterns in a Facebook-based online discussion learning activity. A total of 3230 messages in the online discussion were retrieved and analysed. The results indicate that the female-only groups were the most active groups in terms of the messages generated. By contrast, male-only groups were the least active but exhibited a more diverse discussion pattern. Meanwhile, the balanced-gender groups showed the most diverse cognitive transition patterns. Our findings could serve as a guideline for gender grouping and collaborative learning activity design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies have examined the relationship between Facebook use and student engagement. With the growing use of social networking services in everyday life, there is an ongoing debate on the effect of Facebook usage outside the classroom on classroom learning. However, studies have been so far failed to examine how Facebook activities in everyday life differ according to individual characteristics. In order to answer that question, this study investigated how Facebook use affects student engagement in the classroom. The moderating role of user motivation was also examined, since students use Facebook for different purposes, which eventually determine whether they become engaged in their learning. The results revealed that students with more active Facebook use achieved significantly higher scores on student engagement than those with less active Facebook use. Image-management and social-pressure motivations have moderating effects on the relationship between the differing ways of using Facebook and student engagement. Students with high levels of image-management motivation who spent more time on Facebook gave learning with peers the lowest ratings of all the students surveyed. Those with high levels of social-pressure motivation who spent more time on Facebook also gave learning with peers lower ratings than all other students surveyed. Implications for future studies on instructional uses of social networking services are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates how the attributes of online social platforms (e.g., open vs. closed, symmetric vs. asymmetric social networks) and user preferences regarding platform diversity (e.g., single-homing vs. multi-homing) moderate the influence of homophily on user behaviors across varied social segments. On the basis of panel data, we delve into the interplay among homophily, structural diversities across various online social networking services (SNSs), and users’ homing preferences in such social platforms. The data feature of the SNS consumption behaviors of 10,172 individual users are obtained over a period of 134 days. An agent-based simulation model is developed to further validate and generalize the empirical findings. The simulation and empirical results consistently indicate that propensity toward homophily differs significantly across platform types and users’ channel adoption behaviors. Online homophily is more pronounced in closed, private social networks than in open, public social networks. Users of asymmetric and symmetric SNSs exhibit weak and strong homophily, respectively. Moreover, whereas users who adopt a single SNS channel tend toward homophily, those who subscribe to multiple SNSs confirm the idea that “opposites attract.” These findings suggest that users of online SNS channels manifest complex human interactions typified by the combination of homophily, heterophily, and asymmetric social preference, although homophily is the most prominent disposition. Our findings suggest that homophily should be considered a dynamically changing human characteristic rather than a static attribute, and stakeholders should exploit the complex nature of users’ homophilous behaviors to address social problems in online SNSs and to enhance the effectiveness of social advertising. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Background: Companies often measure their customers’ recommendation intention using the loyalty index based on the idea that a customer who has high loyalty and is committed to a brand has the confidence to recommend it to others. The psychological barrier is higher for recommendation intention, which may influence the behavior of others than for satisfaction on an individual level. However, the action of recommending has become commonplace due to the spread of social networking services (SNS). Pushing the “like” button for posts by family, friends, and co-workers has become an ingrained practice for consumers. Therefore, it is thought that “like” habits in SNS may lower the psychological barriers to the recommendation.

The emerging new variants of technologies offer library professionals a novel chance to significantly enhance user-centered services and promote collaboration between libraries and their users. Libraries must embrace new technologies and paradigms to remain relevant in society and provide users with the best-emerging services it also ensures that users are involved in the design process and that they are made aware of any changes. With the help of newer technologies libraries reach the unreached goal and make the bridge between other libraries and information centres to share resources and information. In this paper, we discussed some of the most popular emerging variants and trends in library services, which are divided into five broad categories that is Reference Service Variant; Digital lifestyle Variant; Social networking Variant; Research support service Variant, and Variant in personalization service. This study provides these new variants of library services in detail with examples of renowned national and international libraries, which provide these types of services [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the relationship between frequent social media use and subsequent mental health in a representative sample of US adolescents. Also investigated were sex differences in multiyear growth trajectories of mental health problem internalization relative to social media use. Four waves (2013–2018) of nationally representative, longitudinal Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health data were analyzed. A total of 5,114 US adolescents aged 12–14 years at baseline had repeated data across all waves. Statistical analysis involved testing a series of sequential-weighted single-group and multi-group latent growth curve models using R version 3.6.2. Of the 5,114 respondents, 2,491 were girls (48.7%). The percentage of frequent social media use was 26.4% at Wave 1 and 69.1% at Wave 4 for boys compared to 38.3% and 80.6% for girls (p <.001). Boys showed an improving (−0.218, p =.005) but girls showed a deteriorating linear trend (0.229, p =.028) for mental health at the full multigroup latent growth curve model. Social media use accounted for mental health conditions across Waves 1–3 for boys (p s<.01) but only at Wave 1 for girls (p =.035). With the addition of the social media use variable alone, model fit dramatically improved, and residual variances in growth patterns (i.e., random effect) became nonsignificant for boys. Substantial sex differences existed in baseline status, directionality, and shape of mental health growth trajectories as well as interplay of social media use with other factors. Findings of the study suggest that frequent social media use is associated with poorer subsequent mental health for adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the fact that social media are commonly considered entertaining means of communication, they have educational potential, which grants the teacher an opportunity to influence the learning process carried out in a distance format by means of a targeted system of pedagogical interventions. The problem of the study lies in the fact that in practice, the educational potential of social media is hardly ever used by teachers in Kazakhstan in spite of great opportunities to influence the process of students’ distance learning in the English language through a targeted system of measures, filling gaps in educational practice. The purpose of the study is to analyze the effectiveness of distance learning in the English language through the development and approbation of a teaching methodology using the Instagram social network. The main data collection methods used in the study are the survey method and a pedagogical experiment. Surveys of students and experts are employed in establishing the general appropriateness of using social media in educational activities in English lessons, as well as to assess the level of formation of students’ general and foreign language competencies. The pedagogical experiment method is used to analyze the effectiveness of social networks in the process of learning English. A method of organizing a thematic online marathon on Instagram is developed and experimentally tested by the authors. The study establishes that social media platforms can become a powerful tool for teaching contemporary students in the distance learning format if the teacher knows how to use their potential in educational work.

In this study, we investigated personality and mental health variables for users of three popular social networking services (SNS): Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, among Japanese undergraduate students (N = 1030). Compared to non-users, Twitter users scored significantly lower in extraversion, conscientiousness, openness, and self-esteem, and higher in neuroticism, behavioral inhibition system (BIS) sensitivity, and social comparison orientation. Instagram users scored significantly higher in extraversion, behavioral approach system (BAS) -drive, BAS-reward responsiveness, BAS-fun seeking, narcissism, self-esteem, and subjective happiness, and lower in neuroticism, anxiety, and to a marginal extent, depression. Facebook users scored significantly higher in extraversion, openness, BAS-fun seeking, self-esteem, and to a marginal extent, narcissism. Within SNS users, extraversion, agreeableness, and self-esteem were negatively associated with negative mental health variables, and positively associated with positive mental health variables. Neuroticism was positively associated with negative mental health variables, and negatively associated with positive mental health variables. Further, some associations were found within specific SNS users. Differences in personality and mental health were discussed based on the characteristics of each SNS platform.

The current study was conducted to examine the consumption process of tourists through the SIPS model as they experienced tourism-related information and products on social networking sites. Data was collected online from Koreans who have experience in using social networking sites, and a total of 479 responses were used for the data analysis. The statistical package for social sciences 23 and analysis of moment structures 23 were used to evaluate stability, consistency for the measurement items, and to perform structural equation modeling to test hypotheses. There were three main results that emerged from the study. First, three dimensions of sympathy (emotional sympathy, content sympathy, and sympathy for situations and publishers) were extracted. Second, among the dimensions of sympathy, only "content sympathy" showed a significant impact on identification while all dimensions of sympathy significantly affected tourism participation intention. It indicated that tourists are willing to participate in tourism activities immediately if they sympathize with the information obtained from social media without going through the identification process, which is the opposite result of what the SIPS model argued. Lastly, travel content production experience has been shown to have a moderating effect in the relationship between identification and tourism participation intention. The current study will contribute to understanding tourists' consumption process of tourism-related information on social networking sites and to establish efficient marketing strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the ubiquitous use of social media platforms by people of all ages, there is limited synthesis of evidence on their effect on family connectedness. This systematic review assesses the quantitative evidence around relationship between social media use and family connectedness. We searched articles published between January 2010 and April 2020. Nine of the 14 included studies examined the effect of social media on parent-child communication, while the rest explored the effect on broader family relationships. Overall evidence is mixed, highlighting some aspects of social media use that may strengthen family connectedness, while others that may negatively impact meaningful interactions within families. This review illustrates the complex nature of this research domain with limited consensus on how to measure family connectedness in context of social media use. We discuss the limitations of the studies and the greater need for high-quality research in the fast-paced world of social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Social media use has grown in importance and prevalence, with its estimated number of users at 4.9 billion worldwide. Social media use research has revealed positive and negative impacts on users' mental health and well-being. However, such impacts among adults have not been examined in any reviews., Methods: A scoping review was conducted based on the framework by Arksey and O'Malley and reported based on the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Eight databases were searched from 2005 to December 2021. Articles were included after being reviewed by three independent teams, with discrepancies resolved through consensus with the senior author. Publication-related information (i.e., authors, year of publication, aims, study population, methodology, interventions, comparisons, outcome measures and key findings) were extracted from each study. Thematic analysis was conducted to answer the research questions., Results: Among the 114 eligible articles, young adults (69.6%) represented the main age group. Most studies (78.6%) focused on the negative impacts of social media use on mental health and well-being, with nearly a third (32.1%) assessing such impacts on depression. Notably, this scoping review found that more than three-quarters (78.6%) of the included studies revealed that excessive and passive social media use would increases depression, anxiety, mood and loneliness. Nevertheless, a third (33.0%) also reported positive impacts, where positive and purposeful use of social media contributes to improvements in mental health and well-being, such as increased perceived social support and enjoyment., Linking Evidence to Action: This review has provided an overview of the existing knowledge on how social media use affects adults and identified areas of research that merit investigation in future studies. More attention should be given to maximizing the positive impacts of social media use on mental health and well-being among adults., (© 2024 Sigma Theta Tau International.)

As the energy industry became one of the most important aspects in our society, many nations took significant efforts toward energy policies and plans reflecting on public perceptions of energy issues. To efficiently address it, the current study collects user-created contents in social networking services and proposes a new word network model for swiftly observing public perceptions regarding energy issues. The results indicate that the proposed model and employed methodologies can successfully address public perceptions regarding specific energy issues. Based on the results of the network model and comparison with traditional media channels in this study, we found that social networking services can be one of the notable resources for exploring public perceptions of specific energy issues. In particular, although the majority of energy-related issues were presented and reported by traditional media channels and responded by social networking services, social networking services can show faster responsiveness than traditional media channels regarding several energy issues, which were crucially related to economic (cost) or accident-related events, and categorized as energy-related threats or burdens. This means that the public can immediately respond to specific energy-related issues that may directly affect an individual’s situation or environment compared to more general and international energy issues.

Tumblr is one of the most popular micro-blogging services worldwide on which users can share posts consisting of texts and images. This paper proposes a user-centric method of multimodal feature extraction for the personalized retrieval of Tumblr posts. To implement personalized retrieval, we formulate each user's preferences as a triplet loss by using Likes as metadata as well as the text- and image-related features of posts. Furthermore, we develop a personalized multivariational autoencoder (PMVAE) by introducing a triplet loss into multivariational autoencoder (MVAE), which is among the most effective methods of multimodal feature extraction. Previously proposed variants of MVAE can project multiple kinds of features into the single latent features. However, because the latent features do not reflect each user's preferences, retrieval performance when using the previous methods is limited. On the contrary, our PMVAE can extract relationships between text- and image-related features of posts by considering class-related information that represents whether a user prefers a given post. As a result, user-centric multimodal features, which separate a post that a user prefer and a post that a user does not prefer in the latent feature space, can be obtained. Because user-centric multimodal features have high discriminating power, the personalized retrieval of posts desired by each user becomes feasible by using them in such retrieval algorithms as the k-nearest neighbors and Annoy, which is a technique for approximate nearest neighbor search. We conduct experiments using 10 users and 150,947 contents, to verify the performance of k-NN and Annoy. The results show that our PMVAE increased normalized discounted cumulative gain (nDCG) compared with existing methods. The nDCG becomes 0.253 when using term frequency-inverse document frequency based text features and our end-to-end image features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The third-generation incubator is generally characterized by embedment of social networking and customized incubation services are closely embedded in the social networking. How the social networking play their role in the process that customized incubation services facilitate the growth of tenant? In order to disclose whether social networking services (SNS) mediate the impact of customized incubation services on the growth of tenants, this article focuses on the whole process where customized services facilitate the growth of tenants by means of social networking services. First, it employs situational theory and contingency theory to analysis why customized services result in behavior of social networking services; second, it explores why behavior of social networking services facilitates the growth of tenants based on co-production theory and social network theory; next, it conduct a study on the direct relationship between customized services and growth of tenants anchoring on the theory of co-production, customer satisfaction, and dynamic environment. Based on these theories, it develops the overall theoretical model of mediating effect. Following that, it conducts empirical test: it has first ascertained whether there is a positive relationship between customized services and growth of tenants. Then, three paths of the theoretical model have been measured by means of the structural model. At the same time, the t -test and the Sobel test are employed to justify their significance. If we only contemplate customized incubation services and growth of tenants, they are positively correlative. On the other hand, if referring to the role of social networking services in this process, we disclosed that not only customized incubation services positively impact behavior of social networking services, but also behavior of social networking services positively facilitates the growth of tenants; at the same time, the customized incubation services exhibit no direct impact on the growth of tenants otherwise. It witnesses that the behavior of social networking services fully mediates the relationship between customized services and the growth of tenants. As a result, we should promote incubation services to be deeply embedded in social networking services; incubator management should even improve the capability to deal with big data embedded in social networking services. In additional, entrepreneurial ecosystems should be also embedded in social networks intensively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The third-generation incubator is generally characterized by embedment of social networking and customized incubation services are closely embedded in the social networking. How the social networking play their role in the process that customized incubation services facilitate the growth of tenant? In order to disclose whether social networking services (SNS) mediate the impact of customized incubation services on the growth of tenants, this article focuses on the whole process where customized services facilitate the growth of tenants by means of social networking services. First, it employs situational theory and contingency theory to analysis why customized services result in behavior of social networking services; second, it explores why behavior of social networking services facilitates the growth of tenants based on co-production theory and social network theory; next, it conduct a study on the direct relationship between customized services and growth of tenants anchoring on the theory of co-production, customer satisfaction, and dynamic environment. Based on these theories, it develops the overall theoretical model of mediating effect. Following that, it conducts empirical test: it has first ascertained whether there is a positive relationship between customized services and growth of tenants. Then, three paths of the theoretical model have been measured by means of the structural model. At the same time, the t-test and the Sobel test are employed to justify their significance. If we only contemplate customized incubation services and growth of tenants, they are positively correlative. On the other hand, if referring to the role of social networking services in this process, we disclosed that not only customized incubation services positively impact behavior of social networking services, but also behavior of social networking services positively facilitates the growth of tenants; at the same time, the customized incubation services exhibit no direct impact on the growth of tenants otherwise. It witnesses that the behavior of social networking services fully mediates the relationship between customized services and the growth of tenants. As a result, we should promote incubation services to be deeply embedded in social networking services; incubator management should even improve the capability to deal with big data embedded in social networking services. In additional, entrepreneurial ecosystems should be also embedded in social networks intensively.

Recommender systems recommend new movies, music, restaurants, etc. Typically, service providers organize such systems in a centralized way, holding all the data. Biases in the recommender systems are not transparent to the user and lock-in effects might make it inconvenient for the user to switch providers. In this paper, we present the concept, design, and implementation of MobRec, a mobile platform that decentralizes the data collection, data storage, and recommendation process. MobRec's architecture does not need any backend and solely consists of the users' smartphones, which already contain the users' preferences and ratings. Being in proximity in public places or public transportation, data is exchanged in a device-to-device manner, building local databases that can recommend new items. One of biggest challenges of such a system is the implementation of unobtrusive device-to-device data exchange on off-the-shelf Android devices and iPhones. MobRec facilitates such data exchange, building on Google Nearby Messages with Bluetooth Low Energy. We achieve the successful exchange of data within 3 to 4 minutes, making it suitable for the described scenario. We demonstrate the feasibility of decentralized recommender systems and provide blueprints for the development of seamless multi-platform device-to-device communication.

This paper is an attempt to discuss brand loyalty from a consumer perspective, its implication of the key components are; Uniqueness, Usability, and Integration In addition to the main factors according to the literature; Brand trust, perceived quality and shared values. The research also discusses Consumer satisfaction as a basic level of brand loyalty. It also aims to highlight the Integrative thinking as an approach to build and maintain brand loyalty for social networking services in Egypt. Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram need to do more effort to express their shared values if they want to rely on them to maintain brand loyalty in Egypt. Moreover, they need to focus on consumer's needs to build positive consumer experience and satisfaction, rather than societal and global issues. As People in Egypt and maybe in the developing countries, in general, are not interested in climate changes and the environmental problems, considering them a kind of luxury, they concentrated on their daily routine and personal needs rather than public and global issues. Some people don't trust the brand's intentions and they believe that the main concern and sometimes the only one for the brand is to build its own image and achieve its marketing objectives, which considers a serious obstacle if the brand decides to rely on societal shared values.Privacy used to be an important issue people concerned about since the using expansion of the internet, especially social media networking. With time people surrendered to the fact that they were unable to protect their own personal data and information and accustomed to dealing with it and they no longer pay the same attention as before. This explains why (Privacy) is not recently one of the key factors affecting purchase behavior or brand trust.Integrative thinking is the most effective factor in building and maintaining Google loyalty in Egypt. People prefer using a brand that enables him to fulfill a number of needs rather than using one brand for each. Further research should be done to confirm the results of this paper by applying to different brands and different countries.

Abstract Background Cyberbullying is a growing public health concern threatening the well-being of adolescents in both developed and developing countries. In Taiwan, qualitative research exploring the experiences and perceptions of cyberbullying among Taiwanese young people is lacking. Methods We conducted in-depth interviews with a convenience sample of high school students (aged 16 to 18) from five schools in Taipei, Taiwan, without prior knowledge of their cyberbullying experiences. In total, 48 participants were interviewed. Results We found that the experience of cyberbullying is common, frequently occurs anonymously and publicly on unofficial school Facebook pages created by students themselves, and manifests in multiple ways, such as name-calling, uploading photos, and/or excluding victims from online groups of friends. Exclusion, which may be a type of cyberbullying unique to the Asian context, causes a sense of isolation, helplessness, or hopelessness, even producing mental health effects in the victims because people place the utmost importance on interpersonal harmony due to the Confucian values in collectivistic Asian societies. In addition, our study revealed reasons for cyberbullying that also potentially reflect the collectivistic values of Asian societies. These reasons included fun, discrimination, jealousy, revenge, and punishment of peers who broke school or social rules/norms, for example, by cheating others or being promiscuous. Conclusions Our findings reveal the pressing need for the Taiwanese school system to develop cyberbullying prevention programmes considering the nature and sociocultural characteristics of cyberbullying.