Perceived Benefits and Risks of Social Media: Ethiopian Secondary School Students’ Perspectives

Mulisa, Feyisa; Getahun, Dawit Asrat

doi:10.1007/s41347-018-0062-6

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“…Cyberbullying is "bullying which involves the use of ICT such as email, cell phone and text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal websites, and defamatory online personal polling websites to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others" (Belsey, 2005, cited in;Burton & Mutongwizo, 2009, p. 1). Cyberbullying has been widely reported across several countries in SSA including Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, Uganda, and others (Madanda, Ngolobe, & Amuriat, 2009;Mooketsi, 2018;Mulisa & Getahun, 2018;Olumide, Adams, & Amodu, 2015b;Sall, 2017;Sam, Bruce, Agyemang, Amponsah, & Arkorful, 2019). In one study, more than 45% of 18-to 45-year-old female users of Facebook or Twitter in West and Central Africa reported having experienced some form of GBV on social media (Internet Sans Frontieres, 2019).…”

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The Nature of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse among Young Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa

Makinde¹,

Olamijuwon²,

Ichegbo³

et al. 2021

The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse

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Incidents of violence perpetrated through digital technology platforms or facilitated by these means have been reported, often in high-income countries. Very little scholarly attention has been given to the nature of Technology-Facilitated violence and abuse (TFVA) across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) despite an explosion in the use of various technologies. We conducted a literature review to identify and harmonize available data relating to the types of TFVA taking place in SSA. This was followed by an online survey of young adults through the SHYad.NET forum to understand the nature of TFVA among young adults in SSA. Our literature review revealed various types of TFVA to be happening across SSA, including cyberbullying, cyberstalking, trolling, dating abuse, image-based sexual violence, sextortion, and revenge porn. The results of our online survey revealed that both young men and women experience TFVA, with the most commonly reported TFVA being receiving unwanted sexually explicit images, comments, emails, or text messages. Female respondents more often reported repeated and/or unwanted sexual requests online via email or text message while male respondents more often reported experiencing violent threats. Respondents used various means to cope with TFVA including blocking the abuser or deleting the abused profile on social media.

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The Nature of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse among Young Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa

Makinde¹,

Olamijuwon²,

Ichegbo³

et al. 2021

The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse

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“…This research combined the TOE model (Tornatzky et al, 1990, Awa et al, 2016 and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) capability approach to identify digital marketing engagement in the diffusion process of firms' performance innovation and marketing strategies for improving customer engagement (Wang & Kim, 2017). Meanwhile, digital marketing engagement could be categorized according to perceived benefits and digital marketing usage (Tiago & Veríssimo, 2014, Cheung et al, 2015 that lead to the recreational and relational purposes (Mulisa & Getahun, 2018).…”

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Perceived benefits of social media networks impact on competitive behavior of Indonesia SMEs: Food and beverage sector

Nurliza¹,

Oktoriana²

2021

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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The way innovation increases SME survival performance in dynamic competitive environments remains ambiguous. The purpose of this research is to identify the perceived benefits of social media networks' impact on the competitive behavior of SMEs. It linked TOE model and CRM framework of 188 Indonesian SMEs of food and beverage sector in 2019 using SEM in two phases. The first phase was to identify the characteristics of SMEs, perceived benefits of social media, and the competitive behavior. The second phase was a quantitative analysis using SEM for the proposed framework. It is confirmed that the competitive behavior of SMEs has positive relationships with SME characteristics, market interaction media, and media to improve consumer responses, as well as digital marketing strategy and effectiveness simultaneously. The variability of the competitive behavior is mostly provided by product reviews and answers, followed by responses to rejection, unique visitors, and audience size. Meanwhile, SME characteristics, market interaction media, media to improve consumer responses, and digital marketing strategy and effectiveness have the most direct effect on the responses to rejection respectively. The implications are aligning the capabilities with the orientation of building relationships with consumers, the quality assurance strategy, enhancing customer value in the process, and merchandising strategies.

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“…It is helpful to reduce stigma providing low threshold access with better reach, eventually enabling individuals who face mental health problems to access and get help and even improving the helpseeking intention and behaviour of young adult and adolescents [30]. However, empirical data on level of mental health literacy and the impact and usefulness of school based mental health promotion platforms using social media are rare in developing countries [31,32].…”

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“…However, empirical data on level of mental health literacy and the impact and usefulness of school based mental health promotion platforms using social media are rare in developing countries [31,32].…”

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A quasi-experimental and Guided Social Media Intervention to Improve Mental Health Literacy Level of Urban School Adolescents in Ethiopia: A Detailed Study Protocol

Hassen¹,

Behera²,

Jena³

et al. 2020

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Background: Studies showed Ethiopian adolescents have lower knowledge and awareness about resilient and risk factors and preventive methods of mental health problems that increases mental health promotion and prevention gap. Addressing this gap in school settings using technology assisted mental health promotion platforms could help improve mental health literacy level. Therefore, evaluating effectiveness outcomes of guided social media intervention to improve mental health literacy of school adolescents is convenient issue. Methods: Quantitative and quasi-experimental study will be used among urban school adolescent in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. Following pretest measure among adolescents who have smart phones or social media access and age > 15 years old, participants will be assigned by regression discontinuity design as good as random and then mental health literacy module will be delivered through face book/telegram group to be created for about four weeks and posttest will be done after lapse of a week. Control group will receive posts on effective academic studying skills. Adapted and tested questionnaire in convenient local languages along with English version will be used. Inferential statistics will be applied with significance level of p<0.05. Informed voluntary consent will be obtained from participants, their parents/guardians and school directors. Ethical approval is already obtained.Discussion: Mental health promotion in school settings most importantly using technology assisted mental health promotion platforms supposed to be cost-effective, accessible, acceptable, adoptable, appropriate, feasible, reliable, scalable and sustainable approach helping tailor mental health literacy focused mental health first aid practices still deficient and new for Ethiopia. The study will test the hypothesis whether social media is effective channel of intervention in improving mental health literacy level of urban school adolescents.

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Perceived Benefits and Risks of Social Media: Ethiopian Secondary School Students’ Perspectives

Cited by 23 publications

References 41 publications

The Nature of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse among Young Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Nature of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse among Young Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa

Perceived benefits of social media networks impact on competitive behavior of Indonesia SMEs: Food and beverage sector

A quasi-experimental and Guided Social Media Intervention to Improve Mental Health Literacy Level of Urban School Adolescents in Ethiopia: A Detailed Study Protocol

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