Research develops nuanced take on social media attitudes
What's your relationship status with social media?
Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2023
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News tagged with social networking sites
Your style of social media use may be connected to your well-being
Are you a doom scroller or a Twitter addict? Do you pass the time by flicking endlessly through others' posts on social networking sites, or perhaps you use these platforms to share your own content? Psychologists believe ...
Social Sciences
Jan 4, 2023
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New analysis of obsidian blades reveals dynamic Neolithic social networks
An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people formed in the region as they developed agriculture are larger ...
Archaeology
Oct 17, 2022
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What teachers think of children and young people's technology use
Mobile phones, computers, social media and the internet are part of the daily lives of children and young people, including at school. Concerns over the risks of too much screen time or online activity for children and young ...
Education
Sep 21, 2022
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'Deplatforming' online extremists reduces their followers, but there's a price
Conspiracy theorist and U.S. far-right media personality Alex Jones was recently ordered to pay US$45 million (£37 million) damages to the family of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2022
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Social media networks need new emoticon colors to stop messages being misread, study warns
Social media networks need to introduce more colors for their emoticon graphics to stop users "misleading" each other, a specialist has warned. The claims stems from new research by experts from Liverpool Hope University, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2022
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Your forgotten digital footprints could step on your job prospects: How to clean it up
Applying for a new (or first) job can be time consuming. The job application process, particularly for graduate schemes, involves multiple steps: tailoring your application, psychometric testing, interviews and participation ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2022
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Different social media platforms foster different levels of segregation in online communities
A team of researchers from Ca'Foscari Univerity of Venice, the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, the University of Brescia and the Sapienza University of Rome has found that different kinds of social media ...
Foreign election interference focuses on cultivating distrust, reducing consensus
Foreign interference in U.S. elections likely focuses, in part, on creating distrust among Americans, with paralyzing the American political process as its main goal, according to a new RAND Corporation report.
Political science
Oct 1, 2020
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Social media content matters for job candidates, researchers find
Applying for a job? Don't come across as self-absorbed on your Facebook page. Don't express your strong views on potentially controversial topics either. According to researchers at Penn State, job recruiters are less likely ...
Economics & Business
Feb 5, 2020
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Social network service
A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.
Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people.
While it could be said that email and websites have most of the essential elements of social network services, the idea of proprietary encapsulated services has gained popular uptake recently.
The main types of social networking services are those which contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook widely used worldwide; MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn being the most widely used in North America; Nexopia (mostly in Canada); Bebo, Hi5, StudiVZ (mostly in Germany), Decayenne, Tagged, XING;, Badoo and Skyrock in parts of Europe; Orkut and Hi5 in South America and Central America; and Friendster, Multiply, Orkut, Wretch, Xiaonei and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands.
There have been some attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate entries of friends and interests (see the FOAF standard and the Open Source Initiative), but this has led to some concerns about privacy.
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