Browsing by Subject "Social media"
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Algorithms, social media and mental health
(Society for Computers and Law, 2016-09-28)Algorithmic identification of mental health characteristics is feasible on the basis of easily available information on social media. Such information can be extracted by algorithmic methods from publicly available ... -
Architecture for gathering and integrating collaborative information for decision support in emergency situations
(Inderscience, 2018-01-16)The involvement of citizens in supporting crisis situations is no longer a new phenomenon. In the past, the lack of data was one of the main barriers faced by public managers in the decision-making process. Today the ... -
Club 2.0: Investigating the social media marketing strategies of nightclubs in the midlands and west of Ireland
(Irish Academy of Management, 2012-10)Social media is already an established feature in the marketing strategies of large global brands. This study explores how the social media success stories of large global brands may be emulated on a smaller scale by ... -
Cultural glocalization or resistance? Interrogating the production of YouTube videos at an Irish summer college through practice-based research
(2017-03)This thesis includes the film Dúshlán Lurgan/The Lurgan Challenge and a written exegesis which reflects on the film's 'generative performance'. The film asks if making Irish-language versions of music videos in English at ... -
Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF
(2008)Data portability has become an important requirement on the Social Web. This paper describes how data and social network portability can be achieved by building upon existing Semantic Web developments such as SIOC and FOAF. ... -
Does a social media abstinence really reduce stress? A research-in-progress study using salivary biomarkers
(Springer, 2019-10-24)There is much scientific evidence in recent years indicating that our ‘always on’ culture powered by platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp, is leading to negative health outcomes, particularly ... -
Does multitasking computer self-efficacy mitigate the impact of social media affordances on overload and fatigue among professionals?
(Emerald, 2020-10-20)Purpose This paper investigates the moderating role of multitasking computer self-efficacy on the relationship between social media affordances and social media overload as well as its moderation between social media ... -
The duality of e-participation - a model and technical infrastructure to study and harness social media-based participation
(2016-10-21)Despite the proliferation of e-Participation initiatives, overall efforts towards mainstreaming social media-based and citizen-led political deliberations are still limited. Consequently, there is a paucity of research on ... -
Expanding the horizons of digital social networks: Mixing big trace datasets with qualitative approaches
(Elsevier, 2016-03-31)The study of social networks has attracted much interest from the IS community in recent years, driven mainly by the accessibility of trace data that remain as a by-product of interactions conducted through technology-enabled ... -
Is boredom proneness related to social media overload and fatigue? A stress–strain–outcome approach
(Emerald, 2020-02-21)Purpose Social media overload and fatigue have become common phenomena that are negatively affecting people's well-being and productivity. It is, therefore, important to understand the causes of social media overload and ... -
Leveraging social media and IoT to bootstrap smart environments
(Springer International Publishing, 2014-03-12)As we move towards an era of Smart Environments, mixed technological and social solutions must be examined to continue to allow users some control over their environment. Realisations of Smart Environments such as Smart ... -
"Nonsense?" - ICT perceived by the elderly
(EMCIS, 2011)This paper describes a feasibility study of ICT and social media as perceived by elderly people. Until lately, very little research has been done on social media from the perspective of older people. This is surprising as ... -
On the need of integrating social media channels and open source software repositories
(IEEE, 2015)The growing interest in the usage of social media channels have attracted the open source software community to adopt an identity in order to disseminate project-related information to a wider audience. We foresee the need ... -
Opening the Doors to a Global Classroom: An International Social Media Collaboration in North American Colleges & Teachers of Agriculture, Special Issue: Globalization: Implications for Teaching and Learning in Post-secondary Agricultural Education
(North American Colleges & Teachers of Agriculture, 2013-09-01)A social media platform (ValuePulse) linked California agribusiness undergraduates in a marketing class to students in a marketing course in Ireland. The social media platform was used to create a combined group allowing ... -
The Palestine Solidarity Movement in Ireland and the UK: mediating and framing Palestine online
(2016-09-19)This research explores the Palestine Solidarity Movement’s contemporary collective action in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and the impact of online media on the dynamics of the movement’s activism. It does ... -
Social Networks and Data Portability using Semantic Web technologies
(2008)Social network and data portability has recently gained a lot of interest as one of the issues for social media sites on the Web. In this paper, we will show how Semantic Web technologies and especially the FOAF and ... -
Targeting online communities to maximise information diffusion
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2012-04)In recent years, many companies have started to utilise online social communities as a means of communicating with and targeting their employees and customers. Such online communities include discussion fora which are ... -
Towards Social Event Detection and Contextualisation for Journalists
(2014-08-23)Social media platforms have become an important source of information in course of a break- ing news event, such as natural calamity, political uproar, etc. News organisations and journal- ists are increasingly realising ... -
A typology of conspicuous donation on Facebook
(Emerald, 2021-02-05)Purpose This study aims to present a typology of Facebook followers of charities, drawing on theories of value co-creation, impression management and conspicuous donation behavior. Design/methodology/approach Data ... -
Using social media data for online television recommendation services at RTÉ Ireland
(2015-09)Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) is the public service television and radio broadcaster in Ireland. Through on demand video services, RTÉ allows their users to catch up on television broadcasts via the RTÉ Player. The company ...