Performing health identities on social media: An online observation of Facebook profiles

Who's Who: Linking User's Multiple Identities on Online Social Media

On online social media, users join new online social networks (OSNs) to exploit variety of services while maintaining their old identities on other OSNs. A user maintains an identity on each OSN mentioning metadata (e.g. profile information) about her. Heterogeneity of metadata shared by user across OSNs leads to a problem of finding if two online identities on multiple OSNs belong to the same ...

Social Media and Politics: Examining Indonesians’ Political Knowledge on Facebook

The Internet and social media have played a significant role in contemporarypolitical sphere of Indonesia. In particular, they have been widely usedfor political activism and discussion; but whether the discussions areconstructive is another issue. Constructive political discussion requiresseveral preconditions; one of the most important requirements is rationalreasoning. Citizens must be equip...

The Role of Virtual Media in Changing Social Values with an Emphasis on Telegram and Facebook Social Networks

This study aims to investigate the role played by social networks, including Facebook and Telegram, in changing the social life styles of the young and middle-aged generations of Iranian society. The research method consists of survey group of 512 people of the young and middle-aged generations selected from 5 provinces using multi-stage cluster sampling. Data were collected using a research-ma...

Fake identities in social media: A case study on the sustainability of the Facebook business model

Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have attracted millions of users in the last years. One of the most widely used social networks, Facebook, recently had an initial public offering (IPO) in May 2012, which was among the biggest in Internet technology. Forprofit and nonprofit organizations primarily use such platforms for target-oriented advertising and large-scale marketing ...

Facebook Platform as the Social Business and Marketing Model for Cosmetic Surgery: An Online Study