Updating ‘Stories’ on social media and its relationships to contextual age and narcissism: A tale of three platforms – WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook

Menon, Devadas

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09412

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“…The mediating role of social support has also been reported in a few studies of social media posting and psycho-emotional well-being. Sharing or disclosing feelings, emotions, and life updates are among the common motives of posting on social media [ 38 ]. Such posts provide opportunities for the audience to respond.…”

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Asians and Asian Americans’ social media use for coping with discrimination: A mixed-methods study of well-being implications

Yang

Tsai

2023

Heliyon

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Asians and Asian Americans’ social media use for coping with discrimination: A mixed-methods study of well-being implications

Yang

Tsai

2023

Heliyon

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“…WhatsApp is an efficient communication technology that allows fast one-to-one and group communication at an affordable cost (Dorwal et al , 2016; Menon, 2022). It is a social media platform that provides the facility to share and receive information at the fingertips through text, pictures, emoticons, audio, video, location and documents (Duffett, 2017).…”

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“…Besides, tourism is one of the most critical service sectors on which social media tools have had a positive impact; thus, it can reap the benefits of WhatsApp. Although the updated version of WhatsApp facilitates various fascinating features to users (Menon, 2022), its status tool is gaining much popularity. Currently, it is seen that WhatsApp users prefer to share their recent leisure time experience on the status application through text, pictures and videos.…”

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Leisure time posts on WhatsApp status drive travel and tourism consumption

Agrawal

Mittal

2023

JHTI

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PurposeThe present study aims to examine whether leisure time posts shared on WhatsApp status drive to travel and tourism consumption among users.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, discriminant analysis was employed to test hypotheses and identify essential factors.FindingsThe study indicated that the eight most contributing factors are expressing happiness, planning leisure time, views and comments, attractiveness, inquiring about places, preferring to post, nice way of expression and relax. These factors came from the latent variables of attitude, motivation and self-expression. Overall, the main influencing factors are internal (attitude and motivation), followed by an external factor i.e. self-expression. Additionally, the findings indicated that these significantly and positively impact travel and tourism consumption.Practical implicationsThe discriminators identified in the study would guide tour and travel agencies and the agencies' managers on how best to adopt WhatsApp and WhatsApp's status application to influence aspiring travelers.Originality/valueThis study enlarges the existing literature by integrating three factors, attitude, motivation and self-expression, into a model to influence the behavioral outcomes of aspirational travelers using WhatsApp status.

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“…Each platform is slightly different, allowing for various features a user can enjoy and a company can use for its marketing communication. Facebook enables communication in several ways, including private and public messages, using walls, groups, events, posting photos, stories, videos (Pempek, Yemolayeva and Calvert, 2009;Menon, 2022). Similarly, WhatsApp provides a platform for communication, chatting, sharing ideas, and audiovisual content, only a telephone number is required (Jabbar et al, 2020;Kurniawan et al, 2019).…”

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Building reputation and social media – how effectively do attractive European tourist destinations communicate on them?

Pártlová¹,

Dušek²,

Cudlínová³

2022

JESI

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The paper focuses on evaluation the use of social media Instagram, YouTube and Twitter by 13 attractive European tourist city destinations for online marketing communication concerning building their reputation in the tourism sector. The following data were collected for all individual social media accounts using the online tool Social Blade: number of uploaded posts/media; number of comments, number of likes/views; number of follower/subscribers. According to the results of the analysis of available data, the quantity of the published content does not automatically mean the high degree of interactions of specific social media users. To determine the effectiveness of published posts (images, videos, textual posts) for individual analysed destinations, the index of Social Media Effectiveness (SME) was created and applied.

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Updating ‘Stories’ on social media and its relationships to contextual age and narcissism: A tale of three platforms – WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook

Cited by 19 publications

References 82 publications

Asians and Asian Americans’ social media use for coping with discrimination: A mixed-methods study of well-being implications

Asians and Asian Americans’ social media use for coping with discrimination: A mixed-methods study of well-being implications

Leisure time posts on WhatsApp status drive travel and tourism consumption

Building reputation and social media – how effectively do attractive European tourist destinations communicate on them?

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