Category: Social Media and Communication Technology
It’s Time to Podcast: Hype or Here to Stay? A Pre- and Post-pandemic Trend Study
Podcasts represent a significant media trend due to their accessibility, variety of content, and ability to reach niche audiences by …
In Birth Control We Trust: Analyzing Modern Contraception Behavior and Parasocial Relationships With Health Personalities Online
Family planning in the Philippines is a complex topic because of difficulties in accessing modern contraceptives exacerbated by various external …
Mental Health Consultation Through Telemedicine, Does it Work? A Case Study of Psychologists and Patients in Online Consultation
The advancement of technology has brought a significant impact to our lives, including in the health sector. The presence of …
Co-creating Media Innovation for Social Value: The Thai Media Lab Model
This research explores a collaborative approach between academia and media professionals for media innovation with social value. The data collected …
The Integration of Cross-Cultural Communication in Performing Arts: A Short Video Making Project
Recently, under the influence of the internationalization of universities, many international students have been attracted to study in Taiwan. Therefore, …
Understanding the Role of Personal Motivations in Social Media Use and Choices for Interpersonal Communication
The public introduction of social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and exponential growth of social media as a medium …
The Role of Social Media In Government Communication During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of KSA
The objective of this study was to examine the role of official government social media accounts as a reliable source …
Virtual Confessions: Understanding the Needs and Functions of Israeli Confession Pages on Facebook
This study investigated the attributes of confession pages on Facebook, their role within social networks, and their impact on society. …
Tele-Presence: A Critical Study of Telematic-Art in the Context of Dromology and Spatio-Temporal Perception
This research takes the current background of “telecommunication-based digital performance” as its context, analyzing how digital performances transform the concept …
Empathy in Action: Fostering Digital Empathy Through Intergenerational Activities Among Online Users
With the widespread adoption of online media technology, all generations have become active online users in the digital world. However, …
Presentation Sequences and Styles of Educational Bite-Sized Content by The Indonesian TikTokers
This research delves into the presentation sequences and styles adopted by Indonesian TikTokers in the creation of educational content on …
Media Exposure and Health Behaviors of Menopausal Woman in Ranong Province, Thailand
This study examines the relationship between media exposure and health behaviors among menopausal women in Ranong Province, south of Thailand. …
Digital Connections: Pandemic Affinities of Single Filipino Women Formed Through the Ikemen Series Games
The Philippines was the worst place to be during the peak of COVID-19 (Bloomberg News in Business Mirror, 2021): the …
Communicating Online Counseling for Mental Health: Awareness and Perceptions of PSAU Students
The general objective of this paper was to determine how online counseling for mental health is communicated to the Pampanga …
Health Beliefs of Fathers on Vasectomy as Influenced by Social Media
The study generally aimed to determine the health beliefs of fathers on vasectomy as influenced by social media. A survey …
#gradschoolproblems: Understanding Communicative Aspects of Memes on PhD Students’ Shared Experiences
This paper primarily discusses the challenges faced by PhD students as they face limited communication space for expressing and sharing …
Indian Government’s Use of Social Media During the Russia-Ukraine War
This study analyses the Indian Government's usage of Twitter during the crisis. This study looks at the Indian Government's evacuation …
Using a Smart Chatbot System as a Communication Tool for Campus Navigation
First-year students and visitors to South African universities often lose their way. This is due to widespread areas and complex …
Bouncing Back From Adversity: Thriving During the Pandemic Through Mindfulness Meditation on the Plum Village App
This study explores the difficulties college students have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and how mindfulness meditation, practiced through the …
From E-Government to Social Media: An Analysis of Political Communication in the Xuzhou Eight-Child Mother Incident
New media platforms have the characteristics of fast speed, a wide range of communication, and multiple subjects (Li, 2022). The …
How Does Government Social Media Platform Play Its Role in Chinese Digital Government: Focusing on the Three Cases of Local Government Social Media Platform
Rapid digital transformation and the use of digital technology and social media platforms in government are utilized across the world. …
Uses & Gratifications of Social Media: Survey of YouTube Viewing among College Students
Taiwan is the most mobile country in the world with the highest smartphone user penetration of any country. College students …
Faith on Facebook: A Replication Study Exploring the Effects of Church Communication on a Social Media Platform
This study is a replication of the study When Facebook Becomes Faithbook: Exploring Religious Communication in a Social Media Context …
Examining the Impact of Social Media Use on Inter-family Communication: A Study in Family Communication Patterns Theory
This study examines the potential impact of social media use on inter-family communication from the perspective of family communication patterns …
KOL Training on Live-Streaming Platform in Taiwan
Recently, with the coming of multimedia and technology development, new-type industries come out. In addition, live-streaming industries are the crucial …
Detecting Political Secession of Fragmented Communities in Social Networks via Deep Link Entropy Method
Breakdown of global connectivity in social networks trough disintegration of fragmented but interacting communities leading to political secession is a …
Art and Self-expression on Social Media: The Recreation of the Historical Value During the Pandemic State in 2020
In this paper I discuss from an ethical and aesthetical perspective how a specific account on Instagram has changed the …
Children’s Motivation for Digital Media Use
This paper aims to explore motivations for digital media use among Croatian children aged 4 to 14 years, from the …
Digital Game Habits and Motivations of Youth in The Context of Uses and Gratifications Approach
In today's digital world, individuals deal with different activities to spend their free time. One of these activities is undoubtedly …
The Use of Emotional Artificial Intelligence in Social Network Journalism: Possibilities and Limits of a New Communication Paradigm
Gamification, understood as the use of ludic mechanisms in non-ludic contexts, is seen today as a practice ingrained in new …
Digital Deliberative Democracy in Indonesia: An Analysis From System Theory Perspective
This article aims to analyze the practice of deliberative democracy in Indonesia regarding the use of digital technology. The implementation …
Viewers’ Attribution of Criminal Acts in La Casa De Papel Series Presented on Netflix Digital Entertainment Platform
In the last two years, there has been a huge investment in entertainment by the Saudi Government. In 2018, Netflix …
How Cultures Matter on the Boundary between “Normality” and “Abnormality”: A Case Study for “Sharenting” in Taiwan
With the recently controversial trend in "sharenting" on social media, the moral judgment of sharing their children online has been …
Sensual Social Media Identities: Mobile Dating App Presentations and Attributions Among Young Adults in Manila, Philippines
Communication technologies, through mobile dating apps, have reshaped romantic intimacies. The apps have enabled meaningful interactions that led to relational …
The Relationship Between Social Support and Self-Esteem to the Self-Disclose of Social Media on Older Adults
Social Media has profoundly changed people's daily life experiences. Whether it is to collect information, consumer trading, and express their …
Mobile Telephony for Community Networking: A Study of Thai, Rohingya and Hmong Communities in Multicultural Australia
In situations of displacement from beloved landscapes and acquired tastes to the unfamiliar land, it is common for immigrants to …
Rise of Media Technologies and Emergence of a New ‘Political’ Popular Culture in South Asia
The advent of media technologies changed the whole course of communication and its dissemination. The convergent global media brought a …
Uses and Gratifications of Live Streaming Apps Amongst Indonesian Youth: An Exploratory Study of Periscope
Indonesia, with a total online population of 93.4 million people in 2015, is one of key regions to watch in …
A Study of the Effect of Using Social Networks on the Quality of Family Interpersonal Communication (with an Emphasis on the Relationship between the Couple)
Social networks played an undeniable role in everyday life and human relationships and social networks .Iranian's interest to join, like …
Social Media as a Voice to the Voiceless: The Nigerian Experience
Social media as a communication tool has some advantages over the traditional media because of its ability to bridge the …
Classifying and Profiling Social Media Users: An Integrated Approach
The fast evolving business practice and the continuously changing users’ profiles attract researchers’ interest, such as Brandtzaeg& Heim (2010) and …
Social Media as a Game Changer in the 2014 Indian Parliamentary Election: A Study of the Indian Diaspora Society in Canada and Oman
India is the seventh largest democracy of the world. Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Press are its four pillars. So, media …
Political Parties Re-Disconnected? Websites and Social Media of Indonesian Political Parties
Political parties of Indonesia nowadays have created their own websites (Hameed, 2007) in which the patterns of the use of …
Microblogging and Life Changes: An Ethnographic and Statistical Analysis of Young Adults
Microblogging has revolutionized people�s interaction on the web. This paper investigates the changes in the microblogging practices of young adults …
Social Media Modi-Fication: Narendra Modi’s Use of Social Media in Indian Elections 2014
Title: Social Media Modi-fication: Narendra Modi's use of Social Media in Indian Elections 2014 Research objectives: In an unprecedented rise …
What’s on Your Mind? Rhetorics of Identity Construction on Facebook
Among young Filipinos, Facebook enjoys wide acceptance, with almost 81 percent of the youth population using the social networking site. …
Village Voiced, Village Empowered: A Case Study of the Citizen Journalism Practice Using New Media as a Medium of Empowering the Villagers at Banyumas Regency in 2012-2013
Village is basis of the poor in Indonesia. This condition has placed Village as the main target of the poverty-eradicating …