as narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. to this end, the present study was an ...

Why is it so difficult to resist the desire to use social media? One possibility is that frequent social media users possess strong and spontaneous hedonic reactions to social media cues, which, in turn, makes it difficult to resist social media temptations. In two studies (total N = 200), we investigated less-frequent and frequent social media users' spontaneous hedonic reactions to social med...

In this paper, we apply text mining and topic modelling to understand public mental health. We focus on identifying common mental health topics across two anonymous social media platforms: Reddit and a mobile journalling/mood-tracking app. Furthermore, we analyze journals from the app to uncover relationships between topics, journal visibility (private vs. visible to other users of the app), an...

Social media managers as well as analysts use social media messages as an additional channel to manage and measure opinions towards brands. Currently, however, sentiment tools have been predominantly focused on the binary positive-negative valence of emotions and thereby neglected the multi-dimensional structure of human emotions. Moreover, while practitioners try to address the issue of undiff...

Evidence exists that consumer’s needs for traditional media is an essential determinant in consumer media adoption. However, studies on the need for non-traditional media still remain scarce. It continues questionable whether consumer media needs would have the same significant impact on social media, since its nature is highly interactive and user controlled. Drawing upon the Uses and Gratific...

The goal of this article is to place the role that social media plays in collective action within a more general theoretical structure, using the events of the Arab Spring as a case study. The article presents two broad theoretical principles. The first is that one cannot understand the role of social media in collective action without first taking into account the political environment in whic...

ABSRACT: In this paper we look at what the critical tradition in education has to offer to the phenomenon of social media. Through an overview and evaluation of the approaches advocated by practitioners of critical literacy and critical media literacy, we illustrate the limitations of applying these frameworks to the fluid and densely interwoven spaces of social media. In particular we focus on...

This study examined college students’ use of online media for political purposes in the 2008 election. Social media attention, online expression, and traditional Internet attention were assessed in relation to political self-efficacy and situational political involvement. Data from a Web survey of college students showed significant positive relationships between attention to traditional Intern...

the internet and social media have played a significant role in contemporarypolitical sphere of indonesia. in particular, they have been widely usedfor political activism and discussion; but whether the discussions areconstructive is another issue. constructive political discussion requiresseveral preconditions; one of the most important requirements is rationalreasoning. citizens must be equip...