Academic Articles & Research Papers

The fourth imagery paradigm and its practical application on fashion propaganda

This paper relates the process of Fashion propaganda with the various Santaella and Nöth’s theories on imagery. We analyze how Fashion communicates through illustrations, text, photographs, magazines and digital social media. We distinguish...

Early Depression Detection in Social Media: Monitoring of Individual Nighttime Dynamics and Large Language Model Analysis.

Sleep, Safety and Social Media: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Discussions About Infant Sleep.

Information quality of implant-related videos on Chinese social media platforms: a cross-sectional analysis of Bilibili, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu.

Navigating Social Media: Balancing Connectivity With Media Literacy to Combat Misinformation and Protect Mental Well-Being.

Medication-Related Information on Social Media: Exploring Public Trust, Perceptions of Credibility, and Influence on Behavior.

Sleepless in America: A social sensing study of pandemic-era sleeplessness using nighttime social media data.

Waves of Attention to Racial Injustice on Social Media: Extrajudicial Police Killings in the United States as Focusing Events.

Assessing Efgartigimod (VYVGART™) Social Media Posts in Generalized Myasthenia Gravis to Understand Patient, Caregiver, and Health Care Professional Sentiments.

How mistrust emerged in real time in the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak: 'Ebola business', social media and the history of mistrust in Ebola epidemics in eastern Congo.

Modeling the Interplay of Time, Space, Users, Topics, and Sentiment: A Novel Analytical Framework for Social Media Data Analysis.

Populations, exposures and outcomes: How social media data is poised to advance climate-demography research.

A critical review of dark tourism studies

The topic of dark tourism emerged in the last three decades as tourism became more accessible. It allows forgotten history to be revised and transferred to the public. This study aims to restructure existing categorization regarding dark to...

Getting involved: Uganda cancer society´s efforts to build strategic partnerships for tobacco tax increments and strong tobacco industry monitoring

Background and challenges to implementation Uganda Cancer Society's (UCS) purpose is to coordinate civil society efforts for a systematic contribution towards effective cancer control in Uganda. UCS is moving towards fully integrating tobac...

How the social media impact women’s psychological well-being in the patriarchal structure? The moderating effect of social capital

Abstract Background Despite technological, political and economic progress, Pakistan is still a traditionally patriarchal society, and cultural norms curb women’s freedom of socialization, which contributes to poor mental health. The digita...

A Systematic Review of Deep Learning Approaches for Information Disorder Detection on Social Media: The Context of Misinformation, Disinformation, and Mal-information

Social media platforms have become powerful tools for communication, information exchange, networking, and community building. However, their widespread use has facilitated the proliferation of misinformation, disinformation, and mal-inform...

Mapping Customer Relationship Management Research in Higher Education: Trends and Future Directions

Customer relationship management (CRM) has become a critical strategy for higher education institutions (HEIs) to enhance student engagement, institutional efficiency, and digital transformation. Despite its growing adoption, the evolution ...

Emancipative Islamic theology and Hifz Al-Din: Muslim youth resistance against shamanism

The resistance of Muslims to shamanism began when lies of the shamans were exposed on social media. Many shamans practise fraud under the guise of religion. Magical objects such as luminous daggers or stones that emit smoke, used by shamans...

Are We Replicating Yet? Reproduction and Replication in Communication Research

The replication crisis has highlighted the importance of reproducibility and replicability in the social and behavioral sciences, including in communication research. While there have been some discussions of and studies on replications in ...

What types of tobacco control public service advertisements work for Chinese adolescents? A mixed-methods study

Introduction Adolescent tobacco use has become a serious global public health problem, and effective tobacco control public service advertisements (PSAs) are crucial for reducing adolescent smoking rates. The study aims to employ a mixedmet...