Social Media and it\u27s Effects on Mental Health of High School Students

Previous studies have established a link between mental health and social media usage. That research has shown that social media usage in students can be detrimental to their self-esteem, motivation, and generalized anxiety. This study focused on the effects of social media usage on high school students. The hypothesis was that high social media usage would be associated with student mental health. This study included surveying high school students in the Northwest Indiana area. These surveys asked questions regarding how often the students used social media, what they used it for, and what their perceived stress and anxiety levels were regarding social media usage. This study is important because it brings awareness to the community on how social media can have an impact. The presenters include senior Social Work majors Nancy Engel, Kimberly Mullins, and Emma Brandy. The sponsor of this research is Professor Dr. Matthew Ringenberg, the Valparaiso University Social Work Department Chair

A comparison of social media marketing between B2B, B2C and mixed business models

This paper explores the implicit assumption in the growing body of literature that social media usage is fundamentally different in business-to-business (B2B) companies than in the extant business-to-consumer (B2C) literature. Sashi’s (2012) customer engagement cycle is utilized to compare B2B, B2C, Mixed B2B/B2C and B2B2C business model organizational practices in relation to social media usage, importance, and its perceived effectiveness as a communication channel. Utilizing 449 responses to an exploratory panel based survey instrument, we clearly identify differences in social media marketing usage and its perceived importance as a communications channel. In particular we identify distinct differences in the relationship between social media importance and the perceived effectiveness of social media marketing across business models. Our results indicate that B2B social media usage is distinct from B2C, Mixed and B2B2C business model approaches. Specifically B2B organizational members perceive social media to have a lower overall effectiveness as a channel and identify it as less important for relationship oriented usage than other business models

USAge of Groupware in Software Engineering Education at the Cscw Laboratory of University Duisburg-essen: Possibilities and Limitations

This paper analyzes the application level in CSCW laboratory there are Electronic meeting rooms, Video Conferencing, Desktop Conference (Passenger), and BSCW system which conducting in The University Duisburg – Essen Germany. This analysis included short analysis and discussion about possibilities and limitation of each experiment followed by outlook how this lab can be further developed.Multi-user to Multipoint Videoconferences is introduced to cover all of devices join to the conferences. A computer network, PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network), ISDN Phone, Wireless Infrastructures (accessed by laptop, smart phone, PDA) and videoconferences systems is proposed to be integrate

Multifaceted companion devices: applying the new model of media attendance to smartphone usage

This study inspects the relationship between outcome expectations, habit strength, and smartphone usage by attempting to validate the new model of media attendance (NMMA) (LaRose and Eastin, 2004) , a social-cognitive theory of uses and gratifications. The fast adoption rate of smartphones, and their inherent characteristics as convergent, always-on, always-connected devices, warrant a closer look into user habitualization of this medium. Using a sample of 481 smartphone users selected from a larger panel, we were able to support the NMMA, although surprisingly no significant effect of habit strength on smartphone usage was found. While some uncertainties connected to the method are noted, this suggests a more complex reality, in which habitualization of a convergent media device does not necessarily implicate a significant rise in usage

Sport rules - OK? A study of media usage in 2005

Hållbarhet är en organisationsidé som utgår från både ekonomiska, sociala och ekologiska dimensioner. Länge har den sociala och ekologiska dimensionen åsidosatts till fördel för den ekonomiska, då organisationer i dagens konkurrensutsatta samhälle gör vad de kan för att nå ekonomisk lönsamhet. För att skapa en balans mellan hållbarhetsbegreppets tre dimensioner har högre utbildning setts som det främsta verktyget. Dock har flera rapporter utförda av regeringen visat att svenska högskolor och universitet misslyckas med att föra in en balanserad bild av hållbarhetsarbete för att studenten ska kunna använda sina kunskaper i framtida yrke. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur personalvetare upplever att personalvetarutbildningen har utvecklat deras kunskaper kring att arbeta socialt hållbart, samt att få en förståelse för vilka utmaningar det finns för personalvetare att arbeta socialt hållbart i en organisation. För att besvara syftet har två frågeställningar tillämpats: Vilka kunskaper från personalvetarutbildningen anser personalvetaren att denne har mest användning för i sitt arbete? Samt, hur arbetar personalvetaren med jämställdhet, förebyggande av stress, mångfald och arbetsmiljö? Den metod som använts i studien är kvalitativ med en fenomenologisk ansats och sju intervjuer med yrkesverksamma personalvetare har utförts. Resultatet visar på att personalvetare inte anser sig ha fått konkreta verktyg från sin utbildning i att arbeta socialt hållbart men framhåller samtidigt att utbildning har gett dem förmågan att byta perspektiv och förstå mänskliga beteenden vilket de säger sig ha användning för i deras arbete. Vidare framställs en splittrad bild av informanternas yrkesutövning i relation till de sociala hållbarhetsaspekterna jämställdhet, mångfald, stress och arbetsmiljö. Det synliggörs även upplevelser av utmaningar med att arbeta socialt hållbart vilka anknyts till personalvetarens upplevda yrkesroll, identitet och status. De slutsatser som dras utifrån studiens resultat är att informanterna trots sina upplevelser av att inte ha kunskaper för att arbeta socialt hållbart, utför handlingar med kritisk HRD som förhållningssätt vilka går att anknyta till social hållbarhet. Detta har kunnat urskiljas i informanternas redogörelser för hur de arbetar med jämställdhets-, mångfalds-, stress, - och arbetsmiljöfrågor samt de utmaningar som detta arbete medför

Situation Variation in Consumers’ Media Channel Consideration

In this article, the authors investigate consumers’ consideration of media channels during different usage situations. They develop a model that explains consumers’ media channel consideration as a function of the media channel’s perceived benefits. In addition, they hypothesize that the usage situation affects consumers’ media channel consideration and that situation-based benefit requirements moderate the effect of the benefits on their channel consideration. The authors test the hypothesized relationships using survey data from 341 consumers regarding their consideration of 12 different media channels used by manufacturers to communicate product information across three product-related usage situations. The results of the analyses support the proposed model structure and confirm the expected relationships among perceived media channel benefits, usage situations, media channel requirements, and consumers’ media channel consideration.marketing ;

Social media usage: 2005-2015

Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites, up from 7% when Pew Research Center began systematically tracking social media usage in 2005. Pew Research reports have documented in great detail how the rise of social media has affected such things as work, politics and political deliberation, communications patterns around the globe, as well as the way people get and share information about health, civic life, news consumption, communities, teenage life, parenting, dating and even people’s level of stress. A special analysis of 27 national surveys of Americans across the past decade documents this substantial spread of technology throughout the population, although the overall number of users of social networking sites has leveled off since 2013.1 At the same time, there continues to be growth in social media usage among some groups that were not among the earliest adopters, including older Americans. The figures reported here are for social media usage among all adults, not just among those Americans who are internet users. In many previous Pew Research reports, the share of social media users has been reported as the proportion of internet users who had adopted such sites, rather than the full adult population, which continues to include a relatively small share (currently 15%) who still remain offline. In this report, a broader picture of the American landscape is presented, and so the figures are based on the entire adult population. Continued via lin