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Category: Communication Technology / Social Media

  • Communication Technology
    • Information Seeking
    • Interactivity and Persuasion
    • Internet Use
    • Personalization and Customization
    • Privacy
    • Psychophysiology
    • Self-Esteem and Body Satisfaction
    • Social Media
    • Source Credibility
    • Uses and gratifications
    • Web Advertising
  • Entertainment
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    • Computer-Mediated Communication
    • Emotion and Video Games
    • Immersion
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    • Self-Esteem and Body Satisfaction
  • Persuasion
  • Social Influence
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You Affect Twitter, but How Does Twitter Affect You?

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Environmental Social Media Behavior:

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media
  • Uses and gratifications

Am I Just Eating Because I’m Bored?

  • Communication Technology
  • Self-Esteem and Body Satisfaction
  • Social Media
  • Gaming
  • Self-Esteem and Body Satisfaction

To Face or Not to Face? Response Strategies to Cope with Face Threat on Instagram

  • Communication Technology
  • Web Advertising
  • Social Media
  • Internet Use
  • Entertainment
  • Persuasion

“Video is So Cool, It Makes you Warm!”: The Effects of Mediated Priming on Prosocial Behaviors

  • Communication Technology
  • Interactivity and Persuasion
  • Social Media

‘#nofilter’: Managing boundaries and self-presentations across Finstagram and Instagram

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Spiral of silence on social media:

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media
  • Social Influence

Examining relationships among Instagram affordances, gratifications, and problematic Instagram use:

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Retreat from curated reality:

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Self Representative Behaviors Among Instagram Users and their Effect of the Nature of Posts

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media
  • Entertainment

How Social Networking Impacts One’s State of Mind

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Finding credibility metrics through non-message related Twitter features

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media
  • Source Credibility
  • Social Influence

The role of Internet memes in creating a sense of belonging and community in an online setting

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media
  • Social Influence

The Effects of Interactivity-induced Control and Absorption on Persuasion

  • Communication Technology
  • Interactivity and Persuasion
  • Social Media
  • Persuasion
  • Social Influence

A Survey Study of Fitness and Food Logging Apps, and the People Who Use Them

  • Communication Technology
  • Information Seeking
  • Social Media

So you use Whisper? Exploring the Psychological Effects of Anonymous Social Networking Application

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Why do we Pin? New Gratifications explain Unique Activities in Pinterest

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Effects of facebok use on cyberactivism

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Effects of online buddies and bandwagon cues on user participation in an online health community

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Engagement with news content in online social networks

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Employer perceptions of Facebook profiles

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Are facebook news feeds getting you your a's? the effects of online social networking

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Misery doesn’t love company: An exploration of emotional bandwidth on online social networks

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Putting your best face forward:

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Cool, revealing, or annoying?

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Facebook: The final frontier

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

To friend or not to friend? How facebook can help me make my friend request decisions more efficient

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Deliberative quality of comments on social news websites: A content analysis

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media

Advice at home and at work

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media
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