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?

In order for a social movement to reach broad audiences, the sharing of movement messages through ___________ networks is crucial to reaching diverse audiences.

Which metaphor can be used to explain social information processing theory, and why is this a metaphor for what the theory describes?

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?

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 ___________.

Kirti was involved for several years in organizing the social media campaigns for the activist movement India Against Corruption. As time went on, she began to find it difficult to please both of her supervisors, Arvind and Anna, because they each had very different messages that they wanted Kirti to promote in the movement’s messages. This example illustrates the concept of ______________ occurring within a movement.

In 2022, an app called Gas was launched and gained some popularity among young people. Gas only allowed users to send prewritten positive messages (e.g., compliments, encouragement) to each other. What types of social support does it facilitate with this feature?

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).   What is a relevant affordance in this case?

According to the lecture, which characteristic below is NOT a defining feature of social media?

Beehive was an internal SNS used by IBM employees. Individual users can create profile pages that contained photos, corporate directory information, and a summary of content contributed by the individual. Research found that employees, through this feature, learned more about their co-workers (DiMicco et al, 2009). This is an outcome of which affordance of Beehive?