Psychosocial and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of online social media usage : a literature review
Social media has become an integral part of today’s modern world with a reported number of over 3 billion users in 2018. However, research is unable to keep up with the ever growing platform and thus calls for a need to bridge the gap. The purpose of this paper is to present a literature preview of...
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| description | Social media has become an integral part of today’s modern world with a reported number of over 3 billion users in 2018. However, research is unable to keep up with the ever growing platform and thus calls for a need to bridge the gap. The purpose of this paper is to present a literature preview of psychological and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of social media usage. The paper begins with a review of 3 positive psychosocial impact of social media, namely: online socialization, self-promotion and marketing, and social media as an informative platform. Following that, we discussed about 3 psychosocial negative impact of social media, namely: cyberbullying and cyberostracism, malicious envy and negative comparison, and exposure to negative communities. Subsequently, in the following sections, positive and negative socio-economic impacts will be discussed. Positive socio-economic impacts include increased trustworthiness of companies/ brands and increased sales via social learning. While negative socio-economic impacts include cybercrime, social media attacks on psychological resilience and malicious envy in the workplace. Lastly, the review will conclude with directions for future research. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/740922019-12-10T12:37:31Z Psychosocial and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of online social media usage : a literature review Tay, Chin Xian Foo, Yong Chee Qiu Lin School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology Social media has become an integral part of today’s modern world with a reported number of over 3 billion users in 2018. However, research is unable to keep up with the ever growing platform and thus calls for a need to bridge the gap. The purpose of this paper is to present a literature preview of psychological and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of social media usage. The paper begins with a review of 3 positive psychosocial impact of social media, namely: online socialization, self-promotion and marketing, and social media as an informative platform. Following that, we discussed about 3 psychosocial negative impact of social media, namely: cyberbullying and cyberostracism, malicious envy and negative comparison, and exposure to negative communities. Subsequently, in the following sections, positive and negative socio-economic impacts will be discussed. Positive socio-economic impacts include increased trustworthiness of companies/ brands and increased sales via social learning. While negative socio-economic impacts include cybercrime, social media attacks on psychological resilience and malicious envy in the workplace. Lastly, the review will conclude with directions for future research. Bachelor of Arts 2018-04-24T06:15:25Z 2018-04-24T06:15:25Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74092 en Nanyang Technological University 49 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology Tay, Chin Xian Foo, Yong Chee Psychosocial and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of online social media usage : a literature review |
| title | Psychosocial and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of online social media usage : a literature review |
| title_full | Psychosocial and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of online social media usage : a literature review |
| title_fullStr | Psychosocial and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of online social media usage : a literature review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychosocial and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of online social media usage : a literature review |
| title_short | Psychosocial and socio-economic gratifications and repercussions of online social media usage : a literature review |
| title_sort | psychosocial and socio economic gratifications and repercussions of online social media usage a literature review |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74092 |
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