health and media literacy outcomes. After the program, participants were more likely to have the intention to use condoms during sex and talk to partners, parents, or medical professionals prior to sex. Media literacy outcomes included decreased perceived realism of and increased skepticism of media messages and improved media deconstruction skills. Overall, the results suggest that media literacy

This paper presents a case study of an adaptive multimedia message box (M-Box) based on MPEG-7 technology. To enable a bi-directional communication, MPEG-7 related techniques such as the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) are incorporated into the M-Box. MPEG-7 descriptions for the multimedia access, user preferences, and media summarization are instantiated and transmitted along the media co...

Sociocultural factors hypothesised to be influential in eating disorders were assessed for their relationship with compulsive exercise. A sample of 828 adolescent boys and girls completed measures assessing sociocultural messages to change body shape as well as pressure to be thin, and also measures of compulsive exercise and disordered eating. Results showed that the sociocultural influences d...

Since the popularization of text-based social media, many studies have been conducted using data from these platforms to predict real-world events. The common approach is to consider people posting to a social media as sensors and their respective messages about an event as an indicator of its occurrence or intensity. In general, a sentiment analysis step is performed in order to assign message...

In this paper the significant role of mass media and factors affecting it have been investigated. . Mass media has played an important role in the success of Bangladesh family planning programs. Different mass media are employed to disseminate FP-MCH messages. Evaluation of the impact of mass media exposures on FP-MCH programs would provide new directions and strategy for its effectiveness. In ...

AI-SocialDisaster is a decision support system for identifying and analyzing natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, bushfires using social media feeds. It captures real-time messages then uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) based algorithms entity detection, category classification, sentiment analysis to identify locate various disasters. Moreover, Artificial Intelligence (AI) anomaly r...

Knowledge transfer among employees remains a challenge for many organizations. With the increased adoption rate of corporate social media collaboration technologies, there is an urgent need to determine the factors that enhance information diffusion among employees. The current study leverages prior research on social media collaboration performed in the public domain to determine whether the d...

“Social TV” is a term that broadly describes the online social interactions that occur between viewers while watching television. Television shows are now instigating online social interactions between viewers by requesting viewers, as part of the first broadcasts, to engage in simultaneous discussions about the shows. Examples include explicitly asking users to follow and comment on topics on ...

Social media sites are rapidly becoming one of the most important forums for public deliberation about advocacy issues. However, social scientists have not explained why some advocacy organizations produce social media messages that inspire far-ranging conversation among social media users, whereas the vast majority of them receive little or no attention. I argue that advocacy organizations are...

Message management systems with facilities for the automatic processing of messages can exhibit anomalous behaviour such as infinite loops and deadlock. In this paper we present some methods for analyzing the behaviour of these systems by generating expressions of message flowf rom the procedure specifications. Message domains are partitioned into state spaces, and procedures can be interpreted...