Exploring Casual COVID-19 Data Visualizations on Twitter: Topics and Challenges by Milka Trajkova, A’aeshah Alhakamy, Francesco Cafaro, Sanika Vedak, Rashmi Mallappa, Sreekanth R. Kankara

“…Social networking sites such as Twitter have been a popular choice for people to express their opinions, report real-life events, and provide a perspective on what is happening around the world. …”
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RSS feeds reader for social networking applications by Ho, Chung Yip.

“…With the introduction of the term “Web 2.0” by Dale Dougherty, co-founder of O’Reilly Media and Craig Cline, editorial director of Seybold Publications; more and more are moving from station content to dynamic contents which include technology like Ajax, RSS. Thus, social network site like wiki and blogging become the new trench of the internet. …”
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Tweeting Social Support Messages After a Non-Celebrity's Death: The Case of the Philippines' #Fallen44 by Bautista, John Robert, Lin, Trisha Tsui-Chuan

“…Nowadays, social network sites (SNS) have provided an accessible means to convey social support to grievers who mourn for the dead. …”
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Women favour dyadic relationships, but men prefer clubs: cross-cultural evidence from social networking by David-Barrett, T, Rotkirch, A, Carney, J, Behncke Izquierdo, I, Krems, J, Townley, D, McDaniell, E, Byrne-Smith, A, Dunbar, R

“…We use a sample of ∼112,000 profile pictures from nine world regions posted on a popular social networking site to show that, in self-selected displays of social relationships, women favour dyadic relations, whereas men favour larger, all-male cliques. …”

Factors affecting trust in publishing personal information in online social network: An empirical study of Malaysia’s Klang Valley users by Syed Shah Alam, Maisarah Ahmad, A. Ali Khatibi, Mst. Nilufar Ahsan

“…Results of the study showed that security/privacy, word of mouth, functional motives and social motives significantly affected the publishing of respondents’ personal information on online social network sites. The implication is that the largest challenge of both now and in the future, in terms of users protecting themselves and their information, will be to find out and understand how to effectively access and change the privacy settings offered by all OSN sites.…”
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Current status of market mavens research: A literature review by Abbas, Alhamzah F., Ahmad Jusoh, Ahmad Jusoh, Mas’od, Adaviah, Sahi, Alaa Mahdi, Khatib, Saleh F. A.

“…This research offers a comprehensive study agenda that focuses on various critical areas that need more consideration, such as the cultural role of market mavens and the differentiation between the roles of market mavens and non-mavens in sharing information on social network sites. Scholars might also look at the influence of the generational difference between people and whether or not placing an age or gender limit on people is important in terms of the nature of social networks.…”
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Opocot quest : a facebook platform game by Mohammed Asari, Mohammad Khairul Shaleh

“…This game is available on Facebook, a popular social network site, with the help of Facebook SDK. Players will be able to download the game from Facebook platform and play for free. …”

Develop a model to measure the ethical effects of students through social media use by Moafa, Fahad Abdullah, Ahmad, Kamsuriah, Al-Rahmi, Waleed Mugahed, Yahaya, Noraffandy, Kamin, Yusri, M. Alamri, Mahdi

“…These effects can cause emotional distress and lead people to stop using social network sites or to end their life. In addition, the users of this technology usually get upset when network providers interfere and consider such interference to be unfair. …”
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Bullying on the pixel playground: Investigating risk factors of cyberbullying at the intersection of children’s online-offline social lives by Steven J. Seiler, Jordana N. Navarro

“…The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between social factors (i.e., sociability, social networking site use, Internet use via cell phones), risky online behaviors (i.e., lying about age, sexting, and harassing others), children’s emotional attachment to interactions within SNS, and parental involvement in children’s online social lives on the likelihood of being victims of cyberbullying as well as offline bullying. …”
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Target Oriented Tweets Monitoring System during Natural Disasters by Si Si Mar Win, Than Nwe Aung

“…Twitter, Social Networking Site, becomes most popular microblogging service and people have started publishing data on the use of it in natural disasters. …”
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Social comparison orientation mediates the relationship between neuroticism and passive Facebook use by Dmitri Rozgonjuk, Tracii Ryan, Joosep-Kristjan Kuljus, Karin Täht, Graham G. Scott

“… Passive Facebook use, which involves engaging in non-socially orientated behavior on the popular social networking site, is associated with a range of negative outcomes, including social anxiety, loneliness, jealousy, and depressed mood. …”
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A study of Web 2.0 applications in University websites by Lai, Pek Hia

“…The Web 2.0 applications studied are grouped into three categories, namely collaboration and knowledge creation, aggregation and combination, as well as connection and socialization, and consist of blogs, wikis, social tagging, mashups, RSS, podcasts, social media sites including YouTube, iTunes and Flickr, and social network sites including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. …”
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Condolences strategies by Jordanians to an obituary status update on facebook by Al-Shboul, Yasser, Marlyna Maros

“…This study intends to investigate the speech act of condolences in Jordanian Arabic that are conveyed via a social network site, i.e. Facebook. The data focused on the condolences made as a response to an obituary status update on a deceased contemporary Jordanian actor in 2011. …”
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Browser Forensic Investigations of Instagram Utilizing IndexedDB Persistent Storage by Furkan Paligu, Cihan Varol

“…It focuses on artifacts from prevalently used social networking site Instagram on the Mozilla Firefox browser. …”
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Emojis Are Comprehended Better than Facial Expressions, by Male Participants by Linda Dalle Nogare, Alice Cerri, Alice Mado Proverbio

“…Emojis are colorful ideograms resembling stylized faces commonly used for expressing emotions in instant messaging, on social network sites, and in email communication. Notwithstanding their increasing and pervasive use in electronic communication, they are not much investigated in terms of their psychological properties and communicative efficacy. …”
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Exploring the Relationship between WeChat Usage and E-purchase Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among University Students in China by Haitham Medhat Abdelaziz Elsayed Aboulilah, Syed Far Abid Hossain, Bui Nhat Vuong, Tawfiq Jebril

“…To address this knowledge gap, this study develops a model from the perspective of e-purchase intention for university students during the COVID-19 pandemic based on one of the most famous social network sites (SNSs), WeChat, in China. The model is tested using survey data from 608 students studying in China. …”
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Body, identity and images of the self among adolescents. From research to action through Peer&Media Education by Alessandra Carenzio, Simona Ferrari, Lorenzo De Cani, Jacono Sara Lo, Rivoltella Pier Cesare

“…The second goal is to discuss the results of the research Image.ME, run by Cremit, which studied the uses of social network sites, their impact on relationships and identity and the incidence of risky behaviours. …”
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The Relationship between “Zero Waste” and Food: Insights from Social Media Trends by Daniela Šálková, Olesya Maierová, Lucie Kvasničková Stanislavská, Ladislav Pilař

“…This study analyzed user communication on the social networking site Twitter between July 2008 and April 2023 to determine how members communicated and shared topics related to ZW and food; an analysis of hashtag frequency was also conducted. …”
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DINAMIKA KOMUNIKASI POLITIK DI KASKUS PADA PERIODE KAMPANYE PEMILIHAN PRESIDEN 5 JUNI - 5 JULI 2014 (Studi pada Aktifitas Kaskuser dalam Pemilihan Presiden 2014) by Muhammad Muhtadin Kholil

“…Kaskus has interactive and very diverse expression as a social networking site. Kaskus loaded with dynamics offorce that can cause changes in the livelihood of the concerned society. …”
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The use of dietary supplements and vitamin consumption during and after the Covid pandemic in Vietnam: a perspective of user-generated content by Minh-Tri Ha, Giang-Do Nguyen, Thi Huong-Thanh Nguyen, Bich-Duyen Thi Nguyen

“…Abstract This paper aims to examine the key determinants of User-Generated Content (UGC) affecting consumers’ purchase intention toward buying vitamin and dietary supplement products during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak through the social networking site, Facebook. Five determinants of UGC have been investigated in this context to highlight the association with the purchase intention of Vietnamese consumers these days, including Quality, Quantity, Trust, Utilitarian Value, and Hedonic Value of generated content by experienced users. …”
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