What is the dependent variable in social media use? From a research perspective, this is a pertinent question to help explain and understand the behaviors that underpin the widespread adoption and use of social media throughout society. From a practical perspective, the question is relevant for social media technology providers, for businesses that use social media, and community organizations ...

Dünya nüfusunun yarısından fazlası aktif sosyal medya kullanıcısıdır. Bu mecrada farklı gerekçelerle vakit geçiren insanlar, şirketlerine önemli kişisel veriler sağlamakta ve adeta bu şirketlerin bir çalışanı haline dönüşmektedirler. Sosyal kullanımındaki artışla doğru orantılı olarak, siber zorbalık, nefret söylemi gibi yasa dışı içeriklerin sayısında da artış yaşanması, ülkeleri medyayı kontr...

Social media use in the workplace may simultaneously contribute to productive behaviors (taskoriented and relationship-building) as well as unproductive behaviors (deviance) at work. Building on channel expansion theory the authors examine the impact of using social media on these organizational behaviors. Using a sample of 220 working individuals they found that intensity of social media use c...

supposing the reciprocity of relations between society and media, it is logical to investigate the social changes of women’s identity through inspecting the changes in women’s identity representation in media (particularly cinema). this paper aims to analyze the mutual effects of predominant social affairs of after-islamic revolution of iran on the manner of women’s representation in iran’s cin...

Social media has become a popular outlet for various eParticipation activities, such as online campaigning by political parties. However, research so far has shown that political parties often have limited success with their efforts. Much is yet unclear as to the results and possible applications of social media use. This paper contributes to clarify the underlying concepts of social media, by ...

Nowadays, new informational and communicative media, and the rate of their use by individuals have caused deep metamorphoses in the material and non-material dimensions of human lives, and individuals’ mental regulation. The use of these media, especially the Internet and virtual social networks, among Iranian teenagers has unnoticeably increased, and providing numerous facilities and opt...

With more and more video resources shared on the Web, the practice of sharing a video object from a certain time point (deep-linking) has been implemented by many video sharing platforms. With so many media fragments created, annotated and shared, however, indexing video objects on a fine-grained level on the Web scale is still not implemented by major search engines. To solve this problem, thi...

OBJECTIVE To (1) assess orthodontic patient and practitioner use of and preferences for social media and (2) investigate the potential benefit of social media in marketing and communication strategies in orthodontic practices. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey was developed and randomly distributed to orthodontists via the American Association of Orthodontists and to patients/parents via private...