Imagine a world where the most powerful leader is a wellness guru that runs an elaborate church with millions of followers. The guru is so powerful that everyone believes they can read minds and make ordinary people rich and famous. The guru controls forms of communication, media channels, consumer tastes, and what people eat, drink, say, and even ...
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Natural disasters pose significant challenges to affected communities, governments, and relief organizations, necessitating innovative disaster response and recovery strategies. The rise of social media platforms in recent years has transformed disaster management, presenting both opportunities and complexities. This study delves into the multiface...
Media exposure to graphic images of violence has proliferated in contemporary society, particularly with the advent of social media. Extensive exposure to media coverage immediately after the 9/11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombings (BMB) was associated with more early traumatic stress symptoms; in fact, several hours of BMB-related daily medi...
This study examines how YouTube shapes OTT media. It looks at visual storytelling, marketing, influencer partnerships, and user-generated content that builds audience loyalty. YouTube's discovery features and creator-audience interaction influence content and marketing. The study also explores how YouTube generates revenue for both OTT platforms an...
In this paper, we introduce ProxMetrics , a novel toolkit designed to evaluate similarity among social media entities through proxemic dimensions. Proxemics is the science that studies the organization of space and the effects of distances on behavior and interactions. It encompasses 5 core dimensions: Distance, Identity, Location, Movement, and Or...
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Purpose: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals may receive social support through active use of social media (i.e., posting and interacting). This study examined associations between active social media use, social support, and health indicators in a large sample of SGM adults in the United States. Methods: Data were derived from the 2017 wa...
In this paper, we are interested in investigating how the introduction of GDPR has affected the teachers, with respect to how the new rules have altered their practices, which issues or challenges they have experienced, and which strategies they have developed to overcome such issues. Proceeding from an ecological perspective, we look at schools as...
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We study the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior by randomizing a subset of 19,857 Facebook users and 15,585 Instagram users to deactivate their accounts for 6 wk before the 2020 U.S. election. We report four key findings. First, both Facebook and Instagram deactivation reduced an index of political...
