In this election year, political advertising on social networking sites such as Facebook is increasingly making use of personalized ads to target specific social media users. The effectiveness of online political microtargeting ...
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2016
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Social networking sites such as Facebook provide the ideal environment for some types of narcissists to promote themselves and seek the admiration of others on a grand scale, according to a study published in Cyberpsychology, ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2016
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Americans are increasingly turning to their mobile devices for news, with print newspapers losing more ground, a poll showed Thursday.
Internet
Jul 7, 2016
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The internet has become a weapon for terrorists, who use social media and other technologies to organise, recruit and spread propaganda. So is it possible to turn technology around and use it to not only catch terrorists ...
Internet
Jun 22, 2016
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One of Russia's leading Internet companies said Tuesday it had snapped up a stake in mobile app Prisma that restyles photos as works of art and has gone viral days after its launch.
Software
Jun 21, 2016
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Federal prosecutors say a Las Vegas man has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison for sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users and disobeying a court order not to access Facebook.
Internet
Jun 15, 2016
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Youths who use social media are more likely to develop a "pick-and-choose" approach to customize their faith—regardless of what their religious tradition teaches—than those who do not use social media, according to a ...
Social Sciences
May 16, 2016
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US social network Facebook has won a trademark case in China against a local company, state media reported Monday, weeks after a court ruled against tech giant Apple in a similar suit over its iPhone brand.
Business
May 9, 2016
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When you add a smiley face to the end of a message, you may be saying more than you realise. Emoticons, faces formed from punctuation symbols such as :-), and emojis, picture symbols, are now common features of the way we ...
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2016
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Korean researchers studied how narcissism relates to a person's selfie-posting behavior on Social Networking Sites such as Facebook and interest in the comments they receive back. The authors describe the link between degree ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2016
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