Smart cities is a hot topic in debates about urban policy and practice across the globe. There is, however, limited knowledge and understanding about: Trending smart city concepts and technologies; Relationships between popular smart city concepts and technologies; Policies that influence perception and utilization of smart city concepts and techno...
The use of social media, such as social networking sites and instant messaging, in everyday life continues to spread, along with social media use in the workplace. This study examined how using social media like Facebook (social networking sites) and KakaoTalk (instant messaging) at work affects individual job performance. It also analyzed whether ...
Building upon the perspectives of social capital theory, social support, and experience, this study developed a theoretical model to investigate the determinants of subjective well-being on social media. This study also examined the moderating role of experience on the relationship between subjective well-being and social support. Data collected fr...
The main focus of this paper is on the marketing approach of the use of Facebook by the Polish nationwide Catholic opinion-forming weeklies. The aim of the research is to analyse how the selected media use Facebook (FB) to create a media product, distribute, price and communicate its content (including self-promotional activities). The Facebook pro...
Over the past few years, we have seen significant changes in religious values and practices. This article describes and analyzes communication strategies carried out by the Spanish Episcopal Conference&mdash / i.e., Conferencia Episcopal Españ / ola (CEE)&mdash / through social media. For this, we have followed up the conference&rsquo / s act...
This paper proposes a conceptual model to understand how information transparency matters can support consumer trust in food safety. Beside food labels, food product information can be disseminated by the support of technologies including traceability systems and social media. This article studies extant literature to provide a knowledge base for t...
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Stigma is the deleterious, structural force that devalues members of groups that hold undesirable characteristics. Since stigma is created and reinforced by society—through in-person and online social interactions—referencing the novel coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” or “China virus” has the potential to create and perpetuate stigma. ...
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Since the beginning of December 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread rapidly around the world, which has led to increased discussions across online platforms. These conversations have also included various conspiracies shared by social media users. Amongst them, a popular theory has linked 5G to the spread of COVID-19, lea...
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2) was spreading rapidly in South Korea at the end of February 2020 following its initial outbreak in China, making Korea the new center of global attention. The role of social media amid the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has often been criticized, but little systematic r...
Visant à envisager les (nouveaux) objets de l’écrivain à l’ère numérique, ce travail prend pour exemple le cas des deux écrivains et professeurs en création littéraire québécois, Alain Farah et Alain Beaulieu. Cette étude de leurs profils numériques démontre comment le réel, le potentiel et la fiction s’imbriquent dans les sphères publiques, privée...
