The primary purpose of this study is to identify the key predictor of undergraduate students’ intentions to use social networking sites. Technology acceptance model with three main unobserved variables, attitude, perceived behavior control, and subjective norms was employed as research framework. Seven other unobserved variables were added to the research framework. A technology acceptance ques...

Social-networking functions are increasingly embedded in online rating systems. These functions alter the rating context in which consumer ratings are generated. In this paper, we empirically investigate online friends’ social influence in online book ratings. Our quasi-experiment research design exploits the temporal sequence of social-networking events and ratings and offers a new method for ...

The introduction of social media has changed the way individuals communicate and collaborate both within and outside the organization. This paper examines a specific social media, Social Networking Sites. Organizational use of social networking sites (both public and enterprise) is discussed followed by a closer examination of intra-organizational social networking sites and how these sites hav...

BACKGROUND Internet access via mobile phones and computers facilitates interaction and potential health communication among individuals through social networking. Many South African adolescents own mobile phones and can access social networks via apps. OBJECTIVE We investigated sociodemographic factors and HIV risk behaviors of adolescent social networking users in Soweto, South Africa. MET...

Background: In the past decade, social media has become an integral part of our everyday lives, but research on how this tool is used by public health workers and organizations is still developing. Budget cuts and staff reduction in county departments have required employees to take on more responsibilities. These reductions have caused a reduction in the time for training or collaborating with...

This paper explores the phenomenon of social networking that is changing social structures and communication practices around the globe. It draws parallels with the social structures that emerged in the industrial revolution (such as the social clubs, unions and cooperative societies) and discusses some of the far reaching impacts the current phenomenon is having on society: The paper presents ...

Support groups play an important role in helping individuals cope with their health conditions by providing members with a network of information and social support. It is not well understood what types of support are exchanged in an online, unmoderated, peerto-peer communication of patients and caregivers. We analyzed the informational and emotional support offered and requested among an alcoh...

This is an examination of social networking and the elderly. Interviews were conducted with seniors and staff of senior care centers to identify current social network usage patterns by the elderly and to understand their perceptions and attitudes towards the Web and social networks. Results revealed that seniors were unfamiliar with social networking and in particular Facebook, but would be op...

This paper investigates the frequency of occurrence of English borrowed words in terms of three variables of age, gender, and educational status. To do so, a corpus including the extant files of participants in a target group of telegram social networking was selected and analyzed. The quantitative study of the data shows that the occurrence of the loanwords is much more frequent in the speech ...