Social media platforms have been widely adopted by firms. Yet, research has failed to provide an indepth understanding of social media collective practices in an industry level. This study utilises the case of a well-established hashtag and analyse it in terms of its content and structure. To theorise the collective social media practices, we explore the social media affordance of association i...

Purpose This exploratory research aims to (1) investigate the bright and dark sides of social media use during COVID-19 pandemic; (2) explore impact demographic factors on usage; (3) assess effects cultural dimensions usage. Design/methodology/approach The data are collected through an online survey. Factors derived from grounded theories models such as affordance theory Hofstede's framework we...

In this paper I present the view that inquiry in education can profit from insights from semiotics. Semiotics holds that cognition, or semiosis, is the building up of structures of signs from experience. We create a personal world, an Umwelt, that determines what we perceive and know. The environment also “affords” various structures and these affordances offer special ways to interact with the...

Objects, such as food, in the environment automatically activate and facilitate affordances, the possibilities for motoric movements in interaction with the objects. Previous research has shown that affordance activation is contingent upon the distance of the object with only proximal objects activating potential movements. However, the effect of affordance-activating proximal objects on the ab...

An argument is developed that suggests the concept of affordances can best facilitate the pursuit of new knowledge if it’s defined as an event. The first description initially generated by James J. Gibson was deceptively vague. This has led to several attempts by additional researchers to re-describe it. These efforts fall short of describing a concept that is consistent with both the historica...

Polarity lexicons are lists of words (or meanings) where each entry is labelled as positive, negative or neutral. These lists are not available for different languages and specific domains. This work proposes and evaluates a new algorithm to classify words as positive, negative or neutral, relying on a small seed set of words, a common dictionary and a propagation algorithm. We evaluate the pos...

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Abstract By performing actions such as “liking” a post, commenting on it, or sharing it with others, we are constantly expressing our opinions about ongoing news and public affairs online media platforms. How do these acts of expression affect feelings opinions? We address this question from an “affordance” perspective, focusing the effects both presence affordance (cue effects) users’ actual e...