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Social media is a double-edged sword, providing both benefits and drawbacks.
Social media is a double-edged sword, providing both benefits and drawbacks.
Internet
Apr 4, 2016
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Impression management refers to an individual's deliberate efforts to control or influence other people's perceptions. Sometimes impression management occurs in reaction to face threats: unfavorable incidents that undercut ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2016
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Among adolescents who encountered sexual harassment on social networking sites (mostly on Facebook), 21.8% reported the incident to the provider, but in nearly half of those cases the provider took no action, according to ...
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2016
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Four years in the making, the European Union's new data protection rules have finally been agreed by the European Council and await the approval of the European Parliament. But a last-minute addition has sparked a debate ...
Internet
Dec 22, 2015
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A new study by Sauder School of Business Professor Izak Benbasat and his collaborators shows that envy is a key motivator behind Facebook posts and that contributes to a decrease in mental well-being among users.
Social Sciences
Nov 27, 2015
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A Facebook tool that let people check whether friends were safe after deadly attacks in Paris will be used more widely in the future, the social network said.
Internet
Nov 17, 2015
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Survivors of the Paris attacks seeking shelter and people worried about friends or families all took to social media overnight following a wave of attacks in the French capital that killed 128.
Internet
Nov 14, 2015
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What can you tell about people and their situations from only 140 characters? Apparently, quite a lot according to a new study about Twitter just published in PLOS ONE. To date, no research has tapped the vast data from social ...
Internet
Nov 13, 2015
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According to a 2015 Global Web Index report, today's average adult spends 6.15 hours a day online. More than a quarter of this time is spent on social networking sites. Life in the digital age means an abundance—arguably ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 4, 2015
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LinkedIn is behaving like an extremely productive worker who always seems to get the job done while still yearning to be more like flashier peers.
Business
Oct 29, 2015
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