My social network: Group differences in frequency of use, active use, and interactive use on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

Laor, Tal

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101922

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“…With more and more people accessing and sharing risk information online [ 35 , 36 ], social media increased the complexity of implementing healthcare protocols. As a result, users concluded that they needed to deal with trusting, processing, and distributing information from a variety of sources, with many channels communicating conflicting messages about the COVID-19 risk [ 26 ].…”

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From Heroes to Scoundrels: Exploring the effects of online campaigns celebrating frontline workers on COVID-19 outcomes

Polyzos

Fotiadis

Huan

2023

Technology in Society

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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From Heroes to Scoundrels: Exploring the effects of online campaigns celebrating frontline workers on COVID-19 outcomes

Polyzos

Fotiadis

Huan

2023

Technology in Society

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“…The links between social media use and background characteristics (e.g., age and gender) are well-documented ( McAndrew and Jeong, 2012 ; Scott et al, 2017 ; Laor, 2022 ). For instance, it has been demonstrated that females, younger people, and those not currently in a committed relationship were the most active Facebook users ( McAndrew and Jeong, 2012 ).…”

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What drives me to use TikTok: A latent profile analysis of users’ motives

Gao

2022

Front. Psychol.

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With TikTok rising in social media, the heterogeneity of users creates diversity in motives for using it. The issue of which profiles of TikTok use motives can be identified warrants greater understanding. Conducting latent profile analyses for a sample of 384 TikTok users, we identified four profiles, namely overall low motives, overall medium motives, overall high motives, and escapist addiction and novelty motives profiles. The former three profiles reflect different levels of motivations across four motives (socially rewarding self-presentation, trendiness, escapist addiction, and novelty). It is worth noting that TikTok users in the escapist addiction and novelty motives profile are mainly motivated by escapist addiction and novelty, but not socially rewarding self-presentation or trendiness motives. Through multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and multinomial logistic regression, we further explore the differences in TikTok use between the profiles and the extent to which users’ background characteristics and TikTok use predict their profile membership. The four profiles differ significantly in terms of the scores of almost all TikTok use motives. The frequency of TikTok use and video posting are the most notable predictors of profile membership. These results make theoretical contributions to the extant literature on social media use profiles by exploring the number and types of latent profiles of TikTok use motives, which also inform opportunities for enhancing user experience and imply tailored content recommendations to both achieve maximized gratifications and maintain mental wellbeing based on user profiles.

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“…Moreover, it presents a mostly young audience, which prefers to be informed on social networks rather than traditional media ( 19 ). Therefore, developing awareness campaigns on Twitter either as the sole broadcast medium -or as a potential complement to campaigns launched by other media- could be particularly beneficial for reaching key audiences in public health terms, such as young people, at-risk minorities and other individuals of interest in terms of public health ( 20 ).…”

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Are social networks effective in promoting healthy behaviors? A systematic review of evaluations of public health campaigns broadcast on Twitter

Faus

Alonso

Javadinejad

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionWhile public health campaigns disseminated through Twitter have multiple theoretical advantages over other strategies (e.g., a high potential reach and low economic cost), the effectiveness of social networks as facilitators of attitudinal and behavioral changes in the population seems to remain weakly supported. Therefore, this systematic review was aimed to analyze the degree of impact of healthy behavior-related campaigns as documented in scientific literature.MethodsStrictly following the PRISMA methodology, a total of 109 indexed articles were obtained, of which only 18 articles met the inclusion criteria. In addition to accessing the literature available on WOS, Scopus, BVS, Medline, Cochrane Library and PubMed, the quality of the existing studies was assessed through the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) protocol.ResultsThe results of this systematic review revealed a small number of evaluations of the effectiveness of social campaigns disseminated on Twitter, although the quality of these studies was considerably good. Most of the research used statistics and metrics for evaluation, with residual use of other measurement methodologies. However, their effectiveness and impact on public health-related behaviors remain arguable, in view of the existence of marked tendencies to: (i) not evaluate these campaigns; (ii) evaluate them through excessively brief, ambiguous, or potentially biased indicators; and (iii) not carry out systematic follow-ups over time.DiscussionAlthough there is no strong evidence of the suitability of Twitter as a suitable medium for raising public health awareness on behavioral health affairs, the actual limitations identified in this review would help to optimize this paradigm and enhance the quality, reach, and effectiveness of such communication strategies.

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My social network: Group differences in frequency of use, active use, and interactive use on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

Cited by 57 publications

References 46 publications

From Heroes to Scoundrels: Exploring the effects of online campaigns celebrating frontline workers on COVID-19 outcomes

From Heroes to Scoundrels: Exploring the effects of online campaigns celebrating frontline workers on COVID-19 outcomes

What drives me to use TikTok: A latent profile analysis of users’ motives

Are social networks effective in promoting healthy behaviors? A systematic review of evaluations of public health campaigns broadcast on Twitter

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