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Ideal female body versus ideal athletic body: How social media affects body image of collegiate female runners
(2022-05)
Female athletes are conflicted because they are pressured to conform to society’s ideal female body portrayed in the media and the ideal athletic body for their sport. In the sport of running, there is a huge emphasis on ...
Social media and the cultivation of Americans' perceptions towards Arabs and Muslims
(2020-12)
The west has perceived Arabs and Muslims through the stereotypes they are associated with in the media, such as news broadcasts, print media, films, or TV shows. With the emergence of social media, these stereotypes followed ...
Leveraging social storytelling to foster consumer brand engagement
(2020-12)
Storytelling's potential to mentally transport consumers and influence their attitudes, behaviors and beliefs has been traversed by researchers from diverse fields, including anthropology, psychology, and marketing. In ...
On the development of a suite of tools for the analysis of Twitter discourse
(2022-05)
Social media has become a ubiquitous avenue of natural language use that represents an enormous amount of data, which has in the last decade been used in an increasing amount of linguistic research in such topics as regional ...
Examination of potential mediators and moderators of the relationship between social media use and depression symptoms
(2020-12)
Rates of depressive episodes are highest among emerging adults (aged 18-25) and the incidence of a major depressive episode has increased by 46%, 122%, 59%, and 39% for individuals aged 18-19, 20-21, 22-23, and 24-25, ...
Uses and perceptions of social media as a student engagement tool for academic purposes at a community college
(2020-12)
With the growth of social media over the last decade, students are looking at these platforms not only for personal purposes but also for academic purposes. Social networking sites (SNS) are online communities designed to ...
Waiting to connect: In pursuit of belongingness and connectedness needs for girls through social network sites
(2020-05)
This qualitative study explored how young women pursue belongingness and connectedness needs through their use of social network sites and the other meanings they give to their activities. The study involved multiple ...