...Linda Anane-Donkor; De-Graft Johnson Dei; Patience Emefa Dzandza Ocloo; Theresa Adusei Peasah Aidoo Purpose This study aims to comparatively analyze the role of mainstream media and social media in promoting quality education during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach...

...Shruti Gulati Purpose This study aims to provide bibliometric insights into the scientific production on social media and financial literacy. The study attempts to disclose the most relevant authors, sources and countries that have been highly influential in social media and financial literacy...

... the relationships among interactivity, visual appeal, perceived anthropomorphism, motivation, satisfaction, trust, perceived ease of use ( PEOU ), flow, perceived risk and social commerce usage intention. Design/methodology/approach This study used a survey-based approach to collect data from 300 social media...

...Anurag Chaturvedi Purpose This study aims to explore the role of creativity in social media by systematically analysing scholarly literature published between 2018 and 2024. It specifically focuses on the concept of creative digital influencers (DIs) and their influence on followers. The research...

...Saleha Masood; Mousa Ahmad Albashrawi; Yogesh K. Dwivedi Purpose This study aims to predict the risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2 DM ) among social media users in Saudi Arabia using machine learning ( ML ) techniques. By analyzing Instagram posts, the research seeks to identify lifestyle...

...Shumaila Khan; Syed Hassan Raza; Mubashir Ilyas; Amjad Ali Shah; Umer Zaman; Emenyeonu C. Ogadimma; Sadaf Sattar Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of social media on online public opinion – an area with limited existing studies. The study is undertaken to bridge the gap. It introduces...

...Joseph Marmol Yap; Ágnes Barátné Hajdu; Péter Kiszl Purpose The library and information science profession finds itself grappling with substantial difficulties and hurdles when addressing the trustworthiness and accuracy of information disseminated through social media platforms. This study aims...

...Shruti Gulati Purpose This study aims to explore how social media affects decision-making among tourists and whether there is a potential effect of age, which is studied through generations. For this purpose, baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y and Gen Z tourists are studied and real-time implications...

...Marina Bagić Babac Purpose Social media allow for observing different aspects of human behaviour, in particular, those that can be evaluated from explicit user expressions. Based on a data set of posts with user opinions collected from social media, this paper aims to show an insight into how...

... the sampling size. The selected sample were 900 participants; however, only 770 (85.55%) responded to the questionnaire. Data were collected with the aid of a well-designed and structured questionnaire using the Google forms (Appendix) and distributed in various social media groups created by college...

...Syeda Hina Batool; Wasim Ahmed; Khalid Mahmood; Ashraf Sharif Purpose The use of social media has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media platforms provide opportunities to share news, ideas and personal stories. Twitter is used by citizens in Pakistan to respond and comment...

...Antonela Tommasel; Andrés Diaz-Pace; Juan Manuel Rodriguez; Daniela Godoy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an approach for forecasting mental health conditions and emotions of a given population during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina based on social media contents. Design...

...Syed Hassan Raza; Ogadimma C. Emenyeonu; Muhammad Yousaf; Moneeba Iftikhar Purpose Citizen journalism practices through social networking sites are increasingly becoming an imperative source of public opinion formation. Given the increase in the volume of information sharing on social media during...

...Ruchi Mittal; Wasim Ahmed; Amit Mittal; Ishan Aggarwal Purpose Using data from Twitter, the purpose of this paper is to assess the coping behaviour and reactions of social media users in response to the initial days of the COVID-19-related lockdown in different parts of the world. Design...

... practical implications for politicians, citizens and social media planners. Originality/value The present study was designed carefully and based on empirical research. The study is unique in its nature to fill the research and knowledge gap by adding a variety of Twitter functions used by politicians...

...Nimish Joseph; Arpan Kumar Kar; P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan Purpose Social media platforms play a key role in information propagation and there is a need to study the same. This study aims to explore the impact of the number of close communities (represented by cliques), the size of these close...

... difficulties in handling many students from coursework-based postgraduate degrees under current university curricula. Therefore, this study aims to explore the relationship between research supervisors and graduate students on social media, which is popular among students. Design/methodology/approach...

...Deptii Devendra Chaudhari; Ambika Vishal Pawar Purpose This paper aims to examine the trends in research studies in the past decade which address the use and analysis of propaganda in social media using natural language processing. The purpose of this study is to conduct a comprehensive...

.... retweet, reply, follow). SNA has been widely used to study team dynamics in sports (Mclean et al., 2018) or other topics such as the European football loan system (Bond et al., 2019). However, SNA’s application to social media use in a sport context has been limited (Clavio et al...

...Ashfaq Hussain; Taimoor-Ul-Hassan; Ghulam Shabir Purpose This study aims to examine how information professionals select a social media channel for information discovery and delivery. This analysis was focused to provide usage based ranking of social media channels for information discovery...