Denise posts a lot about her achievements at work on Instagr…
Denise posts a lot about her achievements at work on Instagram. Rui, who has followed Denise on Instagram for a year, often indicates his admiration by liking those posts and commenting below with something like “You are such a hard worker.” Denise works even harder and posts more about her work-related activities on Instagram. What would Joe Walther, who developed the Social Information Processing Theory and the Hyperpersonal Model, call this phenomenon?
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Maria posts her photos of traveling in Italy and shares her pleasant experience of staying at luxury hotels on Instagram. According to the Selective Accessibility Process Model proposed by Mussweiler (2003), how would others respond when seeing Maria’s post?
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Research has shown that active use of social media (i.e., liking, commenting, posting) can increase one’s sense of agency, and thereby enhance well-being (Stavrositu & Sundar, 2012). This study was published in 2012. TikTok was released in 2016. Will the research findings still be relevant to TikTok?
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Mia is a feminist scholar whose private address was posted on the anonymous social media service 4chan by someone who stated that the post was in retaliation for Mia’s outspoken views in support of imposing regulation on video game content. This sort of post is referred to as ___________.
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