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Title: USE OF GANG MEMBER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS TO DETECT VIOLENT CRIME
Author: Fowler, Sherry
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Criminology
Description: Many large cities in the U.S. have a problem with violent crime, some of which is committed by gang affiliates. Those individuals use social media platforms like Twitter to express messages of loss and aggression, which can grow in volume and diss...

Title: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS THROUGH SIMULATIONS OF ANGER CONTAGION IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Author: Bacaksizlar, Nazmiye
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Information technology, System theory
Description: This dissertation investigates emotional contagion in social movements within social media platforms, such as Twitter. The main research question is: How does a protest behavior spread in social networks? The following sub-questions are: (a) What ...

Title: Tweets and Retweets: Racial Differences in Workplace Social Media Use Following a Police Shooting
Author: Grenier, Kelcie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The majority of working adults routinely use social media during their workday and recent literature demonstrates that the purpose of that use varies (Olmstead et al., 2016). Research has also explored under what conditions productivity, communica...

Title: Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Uncertainty and Emotional Content on Users' Decision-making About Misinformation
Author: Karduni, Alireza
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Communication, Cognitive psychology
Description: Misinformation on social media is a phenomenon with considerable impacts on our societies. To effectively mitigate its effects, we need to employ a cross-disciplinary effort to holistically address the critical elements involved in the process, in...

Title: The Influences of Brand Personality, Culture, and Social Media on Iconic Brand Preferences
Author: Whelan, Brian
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Marketing
Description: Despite the strong appeal of iconic brands, research on how consumers form attachments and loyalty to them has been limited. To fill this knowledge gap, this research is aimed at identifying factors that may determine consumers’ emotional attachme...

Title: TOPIC MODELS FOR TAGGED TEXT
Author: Ma, Zhiqiang
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Our world has been experiencing a dramatic and continually increasing growth of digital textual information. This phenomenon raises challenges in analyzing, understanding, organizing, and summarizing these large bodies of textual information. A la...

Title: Social Media and Extremist Groups Online: An Examination of Methods of Radicalization and its Implications
Author: Fertakos, Ryan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public administration
Description: This thesis studies the relationship between extremists groups, their presence online, their ability to radicalize individuals, and the implications of this relationship. Data was collected from Twitter related to two significant events claimed by...

Title: Social Media Use in Public Health and Policy Study
Author: Gao, Jingjing
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Public health
Description: The Internet plays a significant role in health information searching, sharing, and emotional support. Chapter 1 explores the complementary and substitutive value of online health information from diseases, especially chronic diseases, health insu...

Title: Personalized Interaction-Focused Interventions For Mitigating Misinformation
Author: Siddiqui, Safat
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Design, Computer science
Description: This dissertation addresses a novel approach to assessing users' interaction tendencies on social media as a basis for personalized interventions that can make the truth louder and mitigate the spread of misinformation. This research leverages use...

Title: Perfect people, perfect environment: Applying Person-Environment Interaction theory to examine the impact of Instagram use on health-related psychological outcomes among perfectionists
Author: Papay, Kimberly
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Personality
Description: Perfectionism was once thought to be a detrimental personality trait that impacts health and psychological outcomes in negative ways. However, modern conceptualizations demonstrate that this trait is multidimensional and that impacts on outcomes ...

Title: Leveraging Visual Analytics for Modeling Online User Behavior on Social Media
Author: ElTayeby, Omar
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Analysts and domain experts in various fields rely on collecting data about their subjects to understand and predict their behavior. Characterizing and modeling human behavior requires analyzing extensive amounts of data from heterogeneous sources...

Title: Influencers, Identity, and the Internet: How Young Girls Create Their Identity Through Instagram
Author: Matranga, Aleksandra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: As technology continues to develop and social media platforms become more commonly used for various reasons, it is important to understand the overarching impact this has on our younger generations. This study looked at influencers, identity, and ...

Title: Incidents In The Life Of A Cyber Girl: Exploring Instagram As A Potential Counterspace For Black Girls’ Literacy Practices
Author: Anderson, Jimmeka
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational technology, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
Description: Although research has been done to explore social media as a safe space with Black girls (Womack, 2013), there is limited research that assesses social media as a counter space for Black girls’ literacies. According to The Associated Press-NORC Ce...

Title: IDENTIFYING SERENDIPITOUS DRUG USAGES FROM PATIENT-REPORTED MEDICATION OUTCOMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Author: Ru, Boshu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Medical sciences
Description: Drug repositioning has prominent advantages of lower safety risk and development cost than developing new drugs. It has attracted broad interests from the biomedical community. In the past decades, computational approaches have examined biological...

Title: Granular Emotion Detection for Multi-class Sentiment Analysis in Social Media
Author: Frye, Robert
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Sentiment analysis for text classification generally refers to assessing the polarity of the emotional context of written text, whether in a binary (e.g. positive or negative) or trinary (e.g. positive, neutral, or negative) state. Granular emotio...

Title: Food consumption, social media, and social status.
Author: Saleeva, Maria
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: Food consumption practices among different social groups get attention from sociology scholars because of their symbolic meanings. At the same time, food consumption practices in contemporary society are affected by a new phenomenon – social media...

Title: Digital Mirror: An Examination of Social Media’s Influence on Late Adolescent Black Females’ Global and Academic Self-Concept
Author: Williams, Nakeshia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: The broad socialization of new media has the ability to cultivate the values, beliefs, interests, and personality characteristics of Black females. Specifically, new media’s digital platform of social media offers individuals immediate access to v...

Title: Anatomy of a protest: Activism, people, social media and urban space
Author: Karduni, Alireza
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Social sciences--Research, Architecture
Description: The black lives matter movement has risen in response to social injustices in the African-American community in the United States, specifically concerned with police shootings and brutality. Similar to many modern movements in the age of informati...

Title: An Evidence-Based Digital Nudging In Support Of Health Misinformation Assessment On Social Media Sites
Author: Alsaleh, Hamad
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Artificial intelligence
Description: In recent years, social media have dramatically improved the dissemination speed of information, which also includes health misinformation. To date, most of the computational approaches to addressing this problem have focused on detecting and flag...

Title: A Legal Analysis of Students' First Amendment Rights in K-12 Public Education as it Relates to Internet Speech
Author: Erdie, Julia
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Adolescents are rarely without a cellphone and typically have unfettered access to social media sites where they post their status or comment on their friends’ posts. When said communication is used to bully or threaten others, it brings on challe...