scholarly journals THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS BY ONLINE DOCTORAL STUDENTS AT THE THESIS STAGE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruolan Wang ◽  
José Reis-Jorge ◽  
Lucilla Crosta ◽  
Anthony Edwards ◽  
Mageswary Mudaliar
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Use Of Social Media

scholarly journals A SEGMENT STUDY OF MORAL CRISIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ONLINE USING THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION: A WAKE-UP CALL

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (22) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Nor ‘Adha Ab Hamid ◽  
Azizah Mat Rashid ◽  
Mohd Farok Mat Nor
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Moral Crisis ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The development of science and technology is always ahead and has no point and seems limitless. Although human beings are the agents who started this development but eventually faced with a bitter situation which can sacrifice human moral, right and interest of our future. Shariah criminal offenses nowadays can not only occur or be witnessed by a person in a meeting physically with the perpetrator. As a result of technological developments, such behavior can occur and can be witnessed in general by larger groups. Although the illegal treatment which is not in accordance with sharia law and the moral crisis issues happening surrounding us and is rampant on social media, no enforcement is done on perpetrators who use social media medium. According to sharia principles, something that is wrong should be prevented and it is the responsibility of all Muslim individuals. But what is happening today, some Shariah criminal behavior, especially in relation to ethics, can occur easily using facilities technology driven by technological ingenuity. If the application of existing legal provisions is limited and has obstacles for enforcement purposes, then the problem needs to be overcome due to development the law should be in line with current developments. The study aims to identify a segment and cases of the moral crisis on social media and online using the artificial intelligence (AI) application and to identify the needs for shariah prevention. This thesis uses qualitative approaches, adopts library-based research, and, by content analysis of documents, applies the literature review approach. The findings show that the use of social media and AI technology has had an impact on various issues such as moral crisis, security, misuse, an intrusion of personal data, and the construction of AI beyond human control. Thus, the involvement and cooperation of various parties are needed in regulating and addressing issues that arise as a result of the use of social media and AI technology in human life.

scholarly journals Emotions of COVID-19: A Study of Self-Reported Information and Emotions during the COVID-19 Pandemic using Human Centric Artificial Intelligence (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achini Adikari ◽  
Rashmika Nawaratne ◽  
Daswin De Silva ◽  
Sajani Ranasinghe ◽  
Oshadi Alahakoon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
State Transitions ◽  
Clustering Methods ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Over Time

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global disruption, starting with a public health emergency, followed by a significant loss of human life and a severe economic and social fallout. As physical distancing regulations were introduced to manage outbreaks, individuals, groups and communities took to social media to express their thoughts and emotions reflecting different behaviours. This has led to increased interaction on social media thereby recording diverse behaviours of people as the pandemic progressed. OBJECTIVE This research aims to explore the human behaviours recorded on the digital traces of social media during the pandemic. The investigation is focused on examining the emotions, emotion state and intensity changes, topical associations and different groups of people using social media conversations that uncover informed insights on behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS Our study explores emotion classifications, intensities, transitions, profiles and alignment to key themes and topics, across the four stages of the pandemic; declaration of a global health crisis, first lockdown, easing of restrictions, and the second lockdown. This study employs a human-centric artificial intelligence (AI) based framework comprising of natural language processing, emotion modelling, unsupervised clustering methods that are collectively used to investigate the social media conversations. The investigation was carried out using 73,000 Twitter conversations related to Australia from January to September 2020. RESULTS The outcomes of this study enabled to analyse and visualise different emotion behaviours and concerns reflected on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, the topic analysis showed the diverse and common concerns people have expressed during the four stages of the pandemic. It was noted that starting from personal level concerns, the concerns expressed over social media has escalated to broader concerns over time. Second, the emotion intensity and emotions state transitions showed that ‘fear’ and ‘sad’ emotions were more prominently expressed at first, however, they transition into ‘anger’ and ‘disgust’ over time. Negative emotions except ‘sad’ were significantly higher (P < .05) in the second lockdown showing increased frustration. Emotion state changes during these stages were visualised to comprehend the change in emotions over time. Third, based on the concerns expressed social media users were categorized into profiles. The profiles in the first lockdown differed from the profiles in the second lockdown showing the shift of concerns as the pandemic progressed. CONCLUSIONS This study showed diverse emotion behaviours and concerns recorded on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. While this study establishes the use of social media to discover informed insights during a time where physical communication is impossible the outcomes also contribute towards post-pandemic recovery and understanding people’s emotions better during crises. The study exploits AI and social media to enhance our understanding of human behaviours in global emergencies, leading to improved planning and policymaking for future crises.

Don't Be a Ghost Who Drops Grades in Blackboard

2019 ◽  
pp. 154-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambyr Rios ◽  
Radhika Viruru ◽  
Burhan Ozfidan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Group Model ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Community Portal ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Academic Interests

This chapter presents the results of a program evaluation conducted to assess the effectiveness of an online doctoral program in educational leadership at a Research One University from the perspective of its students. Feedback was sought from over 80 currently enrolled students. The study focused on three aspects of the program, namely faculty social and cognitive presence. Recent changes to the program that address these areas include the creation of a thematic group model that clusters students based on academic interests over the last 2 years of the program, extensive revisions to coursework, the adoption of a problem-based dissertation model, and the use of social media and an online community portal to promote student engagement. The results indicate that although students had encountered positive experiences in all three areas, online doctoral students continue to need focused individual mentoring in order to experience success.

Don't Be a Ghost Who Drops Grades in Blackboard

2021 ◽  
pp. 2049-2071
Author(s):  
Ambyr Rios ◽  
Radhika Viruru ◽  
Burhan Ozfidan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Group Model ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Community Portal ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Academic Interests

This chapter presents the results of a program evaluation conducted to assess the effectiveness of an online doctoral program in educational leadership at a Research One University from the perspective of its students. Feedback was sought from over 80 currently enrolled students. The study focused on three aspects of the program, namely faculty social and cognitive presence. Recent changes to the program that address these areas include the creation of a thematic group model that clusters students based on academic interests over the last 2 years of the program, extensive revisions to coursework, the adoption of a problem-based dissertation model, and the use of social media and an online community portal to promote student engagement. The results indicate that although students had encountered positive experiences in all three areas, online doctoral students continue to need focused individual mentoring in order to experience success.

Web-Based Financial Reporting: An Interpretative Model for Corporate Communications on Social Media

2017 ◽  
pp. 79-112
Author(s):  
Paola Ramassa ◽  
Costanza Di Fabio
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Corporate Communications ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Financial Communication ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Interpretative Model

This paper aims at contributing to financial reporting literature by proposing a conceptual interpretative model to analyse the corporate use of social media for financial communication purposes. In this perspective, the FIRE model provides a framework to study social media shifting the focus on the distinctive features that might enhance web investor relations. The model highlights these features through four building blocks: (i) firm identity (F); (ii) information posting (I); (iii) reputation (R); and (iv) exchange and diffusion (E). They represent key aspects to explore corporate communication activities and might offer a framework to interpret to what degree corporate web financial reporting exploits the potential of social media. Accordingly, the paper proposes metrics based on this model aimed at capturing the interactivity of corporate communications via social media, with a particular focus on web financial reporting. It tries to show the potential of this model by illustrating an exploratory empirical analysis investigating to what extent companies use social media for financial reporting purposes and whether firms are taking advantage of Twitter distinctive features of interaction and diffusion.

Maqâṣid Al-Qur’ân In The Interpretation of M. Quraish Shihab About The Verse of Social Media Usage

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Johar Arifin ◽  
Ilyas Husti ◽  
Khairunnas Jamal ◽  
Afriadi Putra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Six Elements ◽  
Written Law ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Universe

This article aims to explain maqâṣid al-Qur’ân according to M. Quraish Shihab and its application in interpreting verses related to the use of social media. The problem that will be answered in this article covers two main issues, namely how the perspective of maqâṣid al-Qur’ân according to M. Quraish Shihab and how it is applied in interpreting the verses of the use of social media. The method used is the thematic method, namely discussing verses based on themes. Fr om this study the authors concluded that according to M. Quraish Shihab there are six elements of a large group of universal goals of the al-Qur’ân, namely strengthening the faith, humans as caliphs, unifying books, law enforcement, callers to the ummah of wasathan, and mastering world civilization. The quality of information lies in the strength of the monotheistic dimension which is the highest peak of the Qur’anic maqâṣid. M. Quraish Shihab offers six diction which can be done by recipients of information in interacting on social media. Thus, it aims to usher in the knowledge and understanding of what is conveyed in carrying out human mission as caliph, enlightenment through oral and written, law enforcement, unifying mankind and the universe to the ummah of wasathan, and mastery of world civilization

The Use of Social Media by the Botswana Government and Governance of Liquid Communication

Mousaion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tshepho Lydia Mosweu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social media as a communication tool has enabled governments around the world to interact with citizens for customer service, access to information and to direct community involvement needs. The trends around the world show recognition by governments that social media content may constitute records and should be managed accordingly. The literature shows that governments and organisations in other countries, particularly in Europe, have social media policies and strategies to guide the management of social media content, but there is less evidence among African countries. Thus the purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of usage of social media by the Botswana government in order to determine the necessity for the governance of liquid communication. Liquid communication here refers to the type of communication that goes easily back and forth between participants involved through social media. The ARMA principle of availability requires that where there is information governance, an organisation shall maintain its information assets in a manner that ensures their timely, efficient and accurate retrieval. The study adopted a qualitative case study approach where data were collected through documentary reviews and interviews among purposively selected employees of the Botswana government. This study revealed that the Botswana government has been actively using social media platforms to interact with its citizens since 2011 for increased access, usage and awareness of services offered by the government. Nonetheless, the study revealed that the government had no official documentation on the use of social media, and policies and strategies that dealt with the governance of liquid communication. This study recommends the governance of liquid communication to ensure timely, efficient and accurate retrieval when needed for business purposes.

Social Media Use and Students’ Health-Lifestyle Modification in University of Calabar, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ntongha Eni Ikpi ◽  
Veronica Akwenabuaye Undelikwo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Lifestyle Modification ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Health Lifestyle ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The use of social media platforms has over the years become a veritable tool for individuals, groups, institutions and corporate bodies for the promotion of health and wellness. In recent times, social media has become one of the most potent agents of the media through which health issues are addressed as well as generated and disseminated to different populations in society. The study was conducted to examine social media use and students’ health lifestyle modification in the University of Calabar, Nigeria. It sought to determine the extent to which students’ use of social media (Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp) influences the modification of their health-related lifestyles such as eating habits, sexual behaviour, cigarette and alcohol consumption, drug use and the engagement in fitness activities. The study adopted a randomized descriptive survey design and used a sample of 300 undergraduate students. The questionnaire was the main instrument used for collection of data while simple percentages and means were used to determine the difference between the expected mean of 2.50 and the observed means across various items in the questionnaire. The results showed that apart from Twitter, social media use by University of Calabar students has significantly influenced the modification of their health lifestyles. Since social media has become a veritable tool for the promotion of positive health lifestyle, effort should be made by government through the health sector to create more awareness among students and the entire population of social media users, on the health benefits accruing from use of social media.

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