Browsing by Subject "Social Media"
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ANALYZING COVID19 TWEETS USING HEALTH BEHAVIOURS THEORIES AND CLASSIFICATION MODELS
(2021-04-30)In order to explain people's health habits, Health Behaviour Theories has been used to analyze posts on social media during previous incidents. With regard to the pandemic, social media data can expose public attitudes and ... -
Buyer behaviour toward Instagram based businesses in Saudi Arabia
(2020-08-07)This study explores the behavior of buyers in Saudi Arabia. Primarily, buyers who are using Instagram to purchase from new types of e-businesses; businesses that use Instagram as their only platform for commerce. The ... -
Direct Selling Business Lead Prediction by Social Media Data Mining
(2016-04-08)Business leads are new potential customers and networkers from the direct selling business point of view, which are the marketing backbone of the direct selling industry. People who work in the direct selling business ... -
The Influence of Social Media on E-Commerce Sties
(2013-12-16)This thesis addresses the influence that social media sites have on the behavior of online customers (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc.). The thesis combines information from three different approaches that study how social ... -
Making Sense of Social Media Text and the Spread of Rumours in Online Social Networks - An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2019-08-27)As the spread of rumours in online social networks (OSNs) has grown at an alarming pace, there is a growing need to better understand the social and technological processes behind this trend. This research proposes an ... -
Scrolling is not Extended Mind-Wandering: How TikTok's 'For You,' Andrew Tate, and the Attention Economy are Jeopardizing User Autonomy Online
(2023-08-25)In the following thesis, I argue that passively scrolling through TikTok significantly interferes with an agent’s capacity to claim autonomous endorsement of repudiatory socio-political values consumed on their “For You ... -
A Study of the Relationship Between the Geographic Locations of the User and Participation in Twitter During Different Types of News Events
(2016-12-19)Twitter is one of the most active social networks in news sharing. People report local events sometimes faster than news agencies. During major events such as earthquakes and presidential elections, people share tweets, ... -
UNDERSTANDING YOUTH LANDSCAPE PERCEPTIONS AND MAPPING LANDSCAPE VALUES VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
(2016-12-09)Hydroelectricity is a ‘special case’ among renewable energies for its maturity, large scale, and extensive landscape impacts. To understand how locals perceive, use, and value the landscape is critical when considering ... -
Using Social Media Data to Improve Navigation within Websites
(2015-04-08)People often use navigation mechanisms such as menus, search, links and browser tools to find information within websites. The purpose of this research was to explore how user-generated content on social media can be used ... -
"Walk-On Parts": The Diminished Agency of Grant Morrison's Superhero Celebrities
(2019-12-16)While several comic book writers have written superheroes as analogous to celebrities, Grant Morrison is the author who has done so the most frequently. Using Zenith, Animal Man and The Multiversity as its core examples, ... -
Women’s Contextual Online Social Identity Formation Model: A Case Study from the Saudi Twittersphere
(2021-01-05)Online Social Networks (OSNs) are widely accessible, and they produce a wealth of information on their user's behaviour. Previous research has shown that the user identity experiences a dynamic shift through self-presentation ...