Performing the self through social media

Entanglements in Practice: Performing Anonymity Through Social Media

Information systems researchers have shown an increasing interest in the notion of sociomateriality. In this paper, we continue this exploration by focusing specifically on entanglement: the inseparability of meaning and matter. Our particular approach is differentiated by its grounding in a relational and performative ontology, and its use of agential realism. We explore some of the key ideas ...

Enhancing Social TV through Social Media Mining

Understanding Personality through Social Media

In this paper, we study the relationship between language use on Twitter and personality traits. Specifically, we want to know how various linguistic features correlate with each personality trait and to what extent can we predict personality traits from language. We gather personality data from Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test which contains thinking, feeling, sensation, int...

Social Awareness through New Media

Niket Mehta Research Scholar and Assistant Professor, Department of Animation and Multimedia, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Extension Centre Noida, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA Dr. Suparna Dutta Associate Professor, (Humanities), Department of Management, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Extension Centre Noida, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA Dr. Asit Bandyopadhyay Associate Professor...

Community Engagement through Social Media

Community engagement, i.e., attracting eyeballs of citizens to focus on their civic government and its functioning is a vital aspect in nurturing healthy democracy at the local level, in both developed and developing countries. This paper looks into specific instances such as graffiti reporting through social media (in a developed country), collaborative focus on local community infrastructure ...