Social media platforms are an indispensable part of entrepreneurship practices. They offer entrepreneurs a platform for business growth and brand development. However, little is known about the effect of social media use on identifying entrepreneurial opportunities. Utilizing social cognition theory, this research focuses on how certain factors—prior knowledge, alertness, and social media—may i...

Researchers have eagerly researched social media; however there has been a lack of direction in these publications, with replications of studies or studies making little to no theoretical contribution to the literature. There is, however, a call for papers which make more of a contribution toward understanding social media. This paper provides a review of the literature relating to social media...

Objective Recent scholarship has focused on using social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) as a secondary data stream for disease event detection. However, reported implementations such as (4) underscore where the real value may lie in using social media for surveillance. We provide a framework to illuminate uses of social media beyond passive observation, and towards improving active responses t...

Detection of fine-grained opinions and beliefs holds promise for improved social media analysis for social science research, business intelligence, and government decision-makers. While commercial applications focus on mapping landscapes of opinions towards brands and products, our goal is to map “sociostructural” landscapes of perceptions of social groups. In this work, we focus on the detecti...

Social networks, especially Facebook as currently the largest one, made the organization of events apparently simpler. Facebook offers the event service, which has greatly simplified the invitation process. Still, organizing an event is usually coupled with the risk of guest's no-show. We report an investigation designed to identify factors that might help predict a person's likelihood of atten...

This paper tries to portrait outline study on the detailed approaches which are related to the working of a Social Media Networks Extraction System (SMNES) or the Social media (SM) platform with the perception of Social Network Wrappers (SNWs) and their issues like creation, perpetuation and support etc. In this paper we discuss in detail the obstacle related to the generation or creation of SN...

The increasing popularity of social media encourages more and more users to participate in various online activities and produces data in an unprecedented rate. Social media data is big, linked, noisy, highly unstructured and incomplete, and differs from data in traditional data mining, which cultivates a new research field social media mining. Social theories from social sciences are helpful t...

Social media technologies and services have empowered individuals and organisations by revolutionalising the way people communicate, socialise and conduct business. Two examples of social media services are Facebook and Twitter. Many organisations have been quick to realise the potential benefits of social media and have adopted social media marketing practices. Social media analytics are condu...

Background & aim: Gender role attitude is one of the key issues affecting the stability of family foundation, which is under the influence of mass media. New media and the process of globalization are effective in promoting gender equality, and an example of modern media is virtual social networks. This study aimed to determine the relationship between virtual social media usage and gender role...