scholarly journals Young Adults’ responses to an African and US-based COVID-19 edutainment miniseries: a real-time qualitative analysis of online social media engagement (Preprint)

10.2196/30449 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venetia Baker ◽  
Georgia Arnold ◽  
Sara Piot ◽  
Lesedi Thwala ◽  
Judith Glynn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Engagement

scholarly journals Urban & Online: Social Media Use among Adolescents and Sense of Belonging to a Super-Diverse City

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Van Eldik ◽  
Julia Kneer ◽  
Jeroen Jansz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Engagement ◽  
Migrant Adolescents ◽  
Group Self

In a world of continuous migration, super-diverse cities consist of a multitude of migrants and non-migrants from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Yet one characteristic they all have in common is the place where they currently live. In addition, both groups are active users of social media, especially the young. Social media provide platforms to construct and negotiate one’s identity—particularly the identity related to where one lives: urban identity. This article presents the results of a survey study (N = 324) investigating the relationships between social media engagement and identity construction among migrant and non-migrant adolescents in the super-diverse city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was found that urban identity was significantly higher for migrants than non-migrants. Certain aspects of social media engagement predicted urban identity in combination with social identity. Finally, social media engagement was found to be positively related to group self-esteem.

scholarly journals Consumo e interacciones de las noticias publicadas en redes sociales por los diarios españoles y europeos

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Luis Mañas-Viniegra ◽  
Ismael López-Cepeda ◽  
Javier Sierra-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Social Media Engagement ◽  
Digital Newspapers

En un contexto en el que la lectura de la prensa ha disminuido en la última década y en el que casi la mitad de los jóvenes no lee nunca, las redes sociales proporcio­nan tráfico hacia las noticias publicadas online y posibilidades de una mayor in­teracción con los públicos. Se realiza, por ello, un análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo sobre el contenido publicado en las redes sociales por los diez principales diarios es­pañoles y europeos, en los que las mayo­res interacciones se hallan en la sección de Cultura, Social y Sucesos, destacando el rendimiento de El País y La Vanguardia en redes sociales con respecto a los diarios europeos. Es más relevante la afinidad te­mática con las publicaciones que la can­tidad, y los accesos a los diarios digitales desde WhatsApp están creciendo, debien­do aprovechar el potencial de las stories en Instagram, para lo cual será necesario adaptar la narrativa. Consumption and Engagement of News Published on Social Networks by Spanish and European NewspaperIn a context of declining readership over the last decade when nearly half of young people never read, social networks provide traffic to online published news stories and possibilities for greater interaction with au­diences. For this reason, a quantitative and qualitative analysis is being carried out with regard to content published on so­cial networks by the ten principle Spanish and European newspapers, in which the greatest amount of interaction is found in the section related to Culture, Society and Events, highlighted by the performance of El País and La Vanguardia on social net­works when compared to European news­papers. Affinity with the topics published is more important than quantity, and access to digital newspapers through WhatsApp is growing as a result of the need to take advantage of the potential of Instagram stories, for which it will be necessary to adapt the narrative.Key words: digital journalism, social media, engagement, news.Palabras clave: periodismo digital, re­des sociales, interacción, noticias.

A real-time method to predict social media popularity

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1750144
Author(s):  
Xiao Chen ◽  
Zhe-Ming Lu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Growth Trend ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
Topological Features ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Open Issue ◽  
Propagation Period

How to predict the future popularity of a message or video on online social media (OSM) has long been an attractive problem for researchers. Although many difficulties are still ahead, recent studies suggest that temporal and topological features of early adopters generally play a very important role. However, with the increase of the adopters, the feature space will grow explosively. How to select the most effective features is still an open issue. In this work, we investigate several feature extraction methods over the Twitter platform and find that most predictive power concentrates on the second half of the propagation period, and that not only a model trained on one platform generalizes well to others as previous works observed, but also a model trained on one dataset performs well on predicting the popularity for other datasets with different number of observed early adopters. According to these findings, at least for the best features by far, the data used to extract features can be halved without loss of evident accuracy and we provide a way to roughly predict the growth trend of a social-media item in real-time.

To Tweet, or Not to Tweet: Gender Differences and Potential Positive and Negative Health Outcomes of Adolescents’ Social Internet Use

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Pujazon-Zazik ◽  
M. Jane Park
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Negative Health Outcomes

Adolescents and young adults are avid Internet users. Online social media, such as social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, MySpace), blogs, status updating sites (e.g., Twitter) and chat rooms, have become integral parts of adolescents’ and young adults’ lives. Adolescents are even beginning to enter the world of online dating with several websites dedicated to “teenage online dating.” This paper reviews recent peer-reviewed literature and national data on 1) adolescents use of online social media, 2) gender differences in online social media and 3) potential positive and negative health outcomes from adolescents’ online social media use. We also examine parental monitoring of adolescents’ online activities. Given that parental supervision is a key protective factor against adolescent risk-taking behavior, it is reasonable to hypothesize that unmonitored Internet use may place adolescents’ at significant risk, such as cyberbullying, unwanted exposure to pornography, and potentially revealing personal information to sexual predators.

scholarly journals Effects of Social Media Use on Millennials' Perceptions of Community Leaders

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney Marie Evans
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Perceptions Of Leadership

Acknowledging that social media use is ever growing and increasingly used to communicate with constituents, this article investigates the effect that a community leader’s social media activity has on young adults’ perceptions of leadership. The method utilized a qualitative analysis of research related to young adults’ relationship with politics juxtaposed to a quantitative analysis of a Qualtrics survey of 106 people between 18 and 24 years of ages’ self-evaluated trust of community leaders on social media. It illustrates that perception of community leaders is not significantly improved through use of social media.  

scholarly journals Social Media Engagement and Influenza Vaccination During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Survey Study

10.2196/25977 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. e25977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arriel Benis ◽  
Anna Khodos ◽  
Sivan Ran ◽  
Eugene Levner ◽  
Shai Ashkenazi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Influenza Vaccines ◽  
Information Searching ◽  
Vaccination Rates ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Engagement

Background Vaccines are one of the most important achievements of modern medicine. However, their acceptance is only partial, with vaccine hesitancy and refusal representing a major health threat. Influenza vaccines have low compliance since repeated, annual vaccination is required. Influenza vaccines stimulate discussions both in the real world and online. Social media is currently a significant source of health and medical information. Elucidating the association between social media engagement and influenza vaccination is important and may be applicable to other vaccines, including ones against COVID-19. Objective The goal of this study is to characterize profiles of social media engagement regarding the influenza vaccine and their association with knowledge and compliance in order to support improvement of future web-associated vaccination campaigns. Methods A weblink to an online survey in Hebrew was disseminated over social media and messaging platforms. The survey answers were collected during April 2020. Anonymous and volunteer participants aged 21 years and over answered 30 questions related to sociodemographics; social media usage; influenza- and vaccine-related knowledge and behavior; health-related information searching, its reliability, and its influence; and COVID-19-related information searching. A univariate descriptive data analysis was performed, followed by multivariate analysis via building a decision tree to define the most important attributes associated with vaccination compliance. Results A total of 213 subjects responded to the survey, of whom 207 were included in the analysis; the majority of the respondents were female, were aged 21 to 40 years, had 1 to 2 children, lived in central Israel, were secular Israeli natives, had higher education, and had a salary close to the national average. Most respondents (128/207, 61.8%) were not vaccinated against influenza in 2019 and used social media. Participants that used social media were younger, secular, and living in high-density agglomerations and had lower influenza vaccination rates. The perceived influence and reliability of the information on social media about COVID-19 were generally similar to those perceptions about influenza. Conclusions Using social media is negatively linked to compliance with seasonal influenza vaccination in this study. A high proportion of noncompliant individuals can lead to increased consumption of health care services and can, therefore, overload these health services. This is particularly crucial with a concomitant outbreak, such as COVID-19. Health care professionals should use improved and targeted health communication campaigns with the aid of experts in social media. Targeted communication, based on sociodemographic factors and personalized social media usage, might increase influenza vaccination rates and compliance with other vaccines as well.

scholarly journals Social Media Engagement and Influenza Vaccination During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Survey Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arriel Benis ◽  
Anna Khodos ◽  
Sivan Ran ◽  
Eugene Levner ◽  
Shai Ashkenazi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Influenza Vaccines ◽  
Information Searching ◽  
Vaccination Rates ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Engagement

BACKGROUND Vaccines are one of the most important achievements of modern medicine. However, their acceptance is only partial, with vaccine hesitancy and refusal representing a major health threat. Influenza vaccines have low compliance since repeated, annual vaccination is required. Influenza vaccines stimulate discussions both in the real world and online. Social media is currently a significant source of health and medical information. Elucidating the association between social media engagement and influenza vaccination is important and may be applicable to other vaccines, including ones against COVID-19. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study is to characterize profiles of social media engagement regarding the influenza vaccine and their association with knowledge and compliance in order to support improvement of future web-associated vaccination campaigns. METHODS A weblink to an online survey in Hebrew was disseminated over social media and messaging platforms. The survey answers were collected during April 2020. Anonymous and volunteer participants aged 21 years and over answered 30 questions related to sociodemographics; social media usage; influenza- and vaccine-related knowledge and behavior; health-related information searching, its reliability, and its influence; and COVID-19-related information searching. A univariate descriptive data analysis was performed, followed by multivariate analysis via building a decision tree to define the most important attributes associated with vaccination compliance. RESULTS A total of 213 subjects responded to the survey, of whom 207 were included in the analysis; the majority of the respondents were female, were aged 21 to 40 years, had 1 to 2 children, lived in central Israel, were secular Israeli natives, had higher education, and had a salary close to the national average. Most respondents (128/207, 61.8%) were not vaccinated against influenza in 2019 and used social media. Participants that used social media were younger, secular, and living in high-density agglomerations and had lower influenza vaccination rates. The perceived influence and reliability of the information on social media about COVID-19 were generally similar to those perceptions about influenza. CONCLUSIONS Using social media is negatively linked to compliance with seasonal influenza vaccination in this study. A high proportion of noncompliant individuals can lead to increased consumption of health care services and can, therefore, overload these health services. This is particularly crucial with a concomitant outbreak, such as COVID-19. Health care professionals should use improved and targeted health communication campaigns with the aid of experts in social media. Targeted communication, based on sociodemographic factors and personalized social media usage, might increase influenza vaccination rates and compliance with other vaccines as well.

scholarly journals Positive Psychology Traits as Predictors of Successfully Engaging People Through Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-227
Author(s):  
Shanelle J. Wilkins ◽  
Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso ◽  
Steven V. Rouse
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Social Media Engagement ◽  
Strengths Assessment

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether a relationship exists between individuals’ character strengths and the amount of success they have engaging people on social media. We used the Values in Action Character Strengths Assessment (Peterson & Seligman, 2004) to measure positive psychology traits of young adults and gathered objective data to assess their levels of social media engagement on Instagram. We hypothesized that the key positive psychology traits of appreciation of beauty and excellence, creativity, and social intelligence would predict success in social media engagement. Regression analyses indicated that only social intelligence was a predictor of higher levels of social media engagement (β = .38, p < .001). This means that individuals who possessed more social intelligence received more likes, comments, and follows on their social media accounts. We also conducted additional exploratory analyses on the remaining 21 positive psychology traits to supplement our hypothesis-guided analyses. As an exploratory study, replication of this study is necessary and it would be useful to expand this research to additional populations.

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