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Stragier, Jeroen; Mechant, Peter; De Marez, Lieven; Cardon, Greet – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Purpose: Online fitness communities are a recent phenomenon experiencing growing user bases. They can be considered as online social networks in which recording, monitoring, and sharing of physical activity (PA) are the most prevalent practices. They have added a new dimension to the social experience of PA in which online peers function as…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Physical Activities, Social Media, Social Support Groups
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Abdelraheem, Ahmed Yousif; Ahmed, Abdelrahman Mohammed – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of using Mobile Social Network Applications (MSNAs) on students' social life (social relations, family relations and social awareness). The study was designed as a survey study using a five-point Likert-type scale to collect data from the students. A sample of 211 students' response was analyzed.…
Descriptors: Social Life, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Undergraduate Students
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Gutiérrez-Porlán, Isabel; Román-García, Marimar; Sánchez-Vera, María-del-Mar – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2018
The impact that Information and Communications Technologies have in the way today's young people communicate and interact is unquestionable. This impact also affects the educational field, which is required to respond to the needs of twenty first century students by training them in acquiring new skills and strategies to deal with a changing and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
Hinojosa, Cristelia Zarate – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While knowledge is one of an organization's greatest assets, it remains a challenge to facilitate knowledge transfer between people within an organization. Social influence has been studied in its role of facilitating information diffusion, which is necessary for knowledge transfer to occur. Among this research, tie strength, a quantifiable…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Information Dissemination, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication
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Houghton, James P.; Siegel, Michael; Madnick, Stuart; Tounaka, Nobuaki; Nakamura, Kazutaka; Sugiyama, Takaaki; Nakagawa, Daisuke; Shirnen, Buyanjargal – Sociological Methods & Research, 2019
The potential of social media to give insight into the dynamic evolution of public conversations, and into their reactive and constitutive role in political activities, has to date been underdeveloped. While topic modeling can give static insight into the structure of a conversation, and keyword volume tracking can show how engagement with a…
Descriptors: Social Media, Political Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Values
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Santovena Casal, Sonia – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
The question addressed is whether, in connection with education, Twitter can be considered both a communication centre and an affiliation space, where virtual communities with shared interests are formed. The 6654 tweets containing the "#education" or "#educación" hashtag sent on specific days in 2014, 2015 and 2016 defined the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Debate
Alkan, Ayse; Çengel, Metin – Online Submission, 2017
Rapid changes and developments in technology can bring positive results as well as negative consequences. One of them is a cyber victimization. In this study; To study the cases of cyber victimization of gifted students. The working group of the study is gifted students in Sakarya in the academic year 2016/2017. In addition to the demographic…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Victims, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries
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Alharbi, Wafa Owaydhah; Alturki, Khaled Ibrahim – English Language Teaching, 2018
The study aimed to identify the degree of social media contribution to reinforcing digital citizenship meaning from the viewpoint of female students at Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. The study was an attempt to answer the following two questions in order to achieve the objectives of the study: To which extent does SnapChat…
Descriptors: Social Media, Females, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Melton, James; Miller, Robert; Salmona, Michelle – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2018
Technical and professional communication instruction is well suited to helping students develop digital literacy but must be informed by research regarding how students are using specific social media platforms, particularly the propensity to post content that could damage their career capital. This study examined this question for students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Undergraduate Students, Social Media
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Strekalova, Yulia A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Emerging pandemics call for unique health communication and education strategies in which public health agencies need to satisfy the public's information needs about possible risks while preventing risk exaggeration and dramatization. As a route to providing a framework for understanding public information behaviors in response to an emerging…
Descriptors: Health, Risk, Social Media, Communication Strategies
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Al-Dheleai, Yahya M.; Tasir, Zaidatun – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
Facebook has now become the most popular social networking tool among university-aged youth. Its popularity has transformed it into an acceptable platform for educational purposes. The use of Facebook is currently more suited to facilitate online interaction among learning participants. The purpose of this study is to investigate students'…
Descriptors: Social Media, Statistical Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Attitudes
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Kimmons, Royce; Veletsianos, George; Woodward, Scott – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
This study employed data mining and quantitative methods to collect and analyze the available histories of primary Twitter accounts of institutions of higher education in the U.S. (n = 2411). The study comprises a sample of 5.7 million tweets, representing 62% of all tweets created by these accounts and the entire population of U.S. colleges and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Statistical Analysis, Web 2.0 Technologies, Social Media
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Dennen, Vanessa P.; Burner, Kerry J. – Distance Education, 2017
This study examines university student's attitudes toward Facebook use, focusing specifically on how they feel about using a social network that encourages the performance of personal and social identity to support learning and interaction among classmates and instructors. Two surveys elicited student habits, preferences, and beliefs related to…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Privacy
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McLouglin, Larisa; Spears, Barbara; Taddeo, Carmel – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2018
A substantial amount of research has documented the negative impact technology has on young people's lives: particularly cyberbullying and the negative mental health outcomes associated with it. Research examining how technology could promote mental health and wellbeing in young people however, needs further investigation. This paper reports on a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Mental Health, Well Being
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Junco, Reynol; Mastrodicasa, Jeanna M.; Aguiar, Alicia Vance; Longnecker, Elizabeth Mae; Rokkum, Jeffrey Nils – NACADA Journal, 2016
The field of academic advising lags behind other similar fields in the use of technologically mediated communication modalities shown to improve academic outcomes. We investigated student satisfaction with undergraduate advising by examining the ways communication methods, such as social media, between student and advisor relate to student…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Computer Mediated Communication, Undergraduate Students, Student Satisfaction
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