and things in their environment. In 2010, a joint study by Ohio State University and Open University of the Netherlands surveyed 219 students and found a relationship between Facebook use and negative academic performance. It found Facebook users had GPAs in the 3.0 to 3.5 range and studied one to five hours a week; non Facebook users had GPAs in the 3.5 to 4.0 range and studied 11 to 15 hours a week. Gadgets also affect health of the kids. According to the Active Healthy Kids Canada 2012 report card
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work (Bowles, 2013). When interacting online with the first group, we use Facebook, the most popular Web 2.0 social network, with over one billion users (Bowles, 2013). Timelines, Activity Logs, and News Feeds allow daily activities to be shared, keeping friends connected in a way never before possible. With the addition of Graph Search, users will be able to find friends who have visited a location or liked a topic. Facebook, however, considers the Timeline and News Feed options the two central
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Public Relations Journal Vol. 5, No. 3 ISSN 1942-4604 © 2011 Public Relations Society of America A Study of PR Practitioners’ Use of Social Media in Crisis Planning Shelley Wigley, Ph.D., and Weiwu Zhang, Ph.D. Social media are increasingly changing the way public relations practitioners communicate and do their jobs. Scholars have begun to explore public relations practitioners’ general social media usage. This study is one of the few attempts to investigate how public relations practitioners
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Ideasaurus 15 Facebook Custom Audience Integrated Marketing Communications 15 Facebook Custom Audience Integrated Marketing Communications Executive Summary Project Purpose Facebook’s Custom Audience is one of today’s fastest growing marketing solutions. Ideasaurus’ goal is to increase the awareness and consideration of Facebook’s Custom Audiences with B2C (Business to Consumer) marketing decision makers as well as increase the awareness of the Custom Audience product and
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Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication of Tumaini University - Dar es Salaam College DECEMBER 2017 CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction This chapter presents the background of the study, statement of the problem, research objectives, research questions, significance the study and limitation of the study. 1.1 Background of the study Small businesses raise customer’s awareness and interest about their products or services through promoting them
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A new scale was designed to measure the extent to which students used social media tools in the classroom. • The links between social media engagement and motivational factors were mediated by FoMO. Abstract The concerns about the consequences of mental problems related to use of social media among university students have recently raised consciousness about a relatively new phenomenon termed Fear of Missing Out (FoMO). Drawing on the selfdetermination theory and on the assumption that low levels of basic need satisfaction may relate to
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Simson Garfinkel author of Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century writes “The problem with this word “privacy” is that it falls short of conveying the really big picture. Privacy isn’t just about hiding things. It’s about self-possession, autonomy, and integrity.” (Garfinkel, 2001) Every day we give away information. It may be a post about what you had for lunch on Facebook or a thought you wanted to share with your followers on twitter. It may be something not so obvious
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“The Facebook Revolution”: Social Networking Sites and the correlation with The January 25 Revolution. 1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Information and communication technology increasing with the growing variety of Internet based applications. This new media is not only "library information" to facilitate the dissemination of information to a universal audience, but even more than that. This media is also a powerful tool for communication activities. Furthermore
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(MLS) a Support for Disseminating Learning Materials Janeth Colis Rexie Gella Ahmeir Ungad Julito Tabe Jr. Erica mae Hipona Chapter 1 The Problem Introduction Some of the common ways of distributing learning’s materials in schools are through hard copy and given on a social media like facebook page, however, there are still problems that’s students have encountered. In regard with the distribution of hard copy, some student may fail to grab their own photo copy because of absent in
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and friends also with people you don’t know. One of the more common questions, asked by many parents are, “Is the social networking and chatting sites your using safe?” Many people believe that online chat rooms and social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, Tagged and Downlink are hunting grounds for many sex offenders and predators. The fact that you can meet sexual predators and sex offenders anywhere at any time of the day slips through people minds. A lot of children and teens interact
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