Social relations in virtual world and social media aggression

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...

Measuring international relations in social media conversations

Social distance in a virtual world experiment

We conduct a field experiment to explore the effect of social distance on the choice of economic opportunities in a virtual world community. We design trust games with partner selection, in which potential responders vary in social distance from the proposer, and the investment multiplier increases with social distance. The proposer can choose between the two trust games with the two different ...

Social media and migration: Virtual community 2.0

Research indicates that migrants' social media usage in Ireland enables a background awareness of friends and acquaintances that supports bonding capital and transnational communities in ways not previously reported. Interview data from sixty-five Polish and Filipino non-nationals in Ireland provides evidence that their social media practices enable a shared experience with friends and relation...

Media, society, world: Social theory and digital media practice

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