Social Media and the Changing Information Environment

The Changing Information Environment

The Role of Virtual Media in Changing Social Values with an Emphasis on Telegram and Facebook Social Networks

This study aims to investigate the role played by social networks, including Facebook and Telegram, in changing the social life styles of the young and middle-aged generations of Iranian society. The research method consists of survey group of 512 people of the young and middle-aged generations selected from 5 provinces using multi-stage cluster sampling. Data were collected using a research-ma...

Blogs in a Changing Social Media Environment: Perspectives on the Future of Blogging in Scandinavia

In this paper, we investigate the change in the online landscape of blogging in the Scandinavian context through a mixed methods approach. The literature on blogs has emphasized the necessity of learning about why and how people blog as it can help us understand how information is created and shared online (Chau & Xu, 2012). Despite the rich literature on blogs, few studies have addressed the c...

The economics of tracking a changing environment: competition and social information

When food patch quality varies unpredictably over time, animals may benefit from sampling to track these changes. Previous theoretical work has shown how patch and environmental characteristics influence the optimal sampling policy, but there has been little attention to the effects of conspecifics, especially for species that do not live in groups. We used a simulation model to investigate the...

The Citizen as Issue Specialists in a Changing Media Environment

Although recent research suggests that the selective nature of new media helps foster issue specialists, little empirical evidence has been documented, mostly due to theoretical and methodological limitations. Extending the concept of issue publics, the present study proposes a method to estimate the degree to which an individual is a specialistor a generalist-type citizen. Applying the method ...