Nowadays, people spend long periods on social media, ignoring the implications this carries
in daily life. In this context, the concept of social media literacy, an emerging concept …

Social media facilitates the formation of identity bubbles that reinforce shared identities,
social homophily, and reliance on the information shared within the bubbles. Currently …

Social media tends to gather users around social cliques consisting of similar-minded
individuals and shared identities. These online group processes can have significant …

Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of building strong social networks and who
are likely to build them. To address these issues, we develop a new theoretical framework …

Gender issues faced by women can range from workplace harassment to domestic violence.
While publicly disclosing these issues on social media can be hard, some may incline to …

Increasing social media use has transformed political participation by creating social cliques
and echo chambers, which involve interaction between like‐minded people. This article …

This study examines the effect of consumers' perceived credibility of information on SNS on
their attitude and intention to adopt this information in the Arab world. The study adopted a …

Social media provides users with advanced opportunities for social interaction and extended
social networks. Parallel to this, however, are emerging virtual forms of victimization and …

This study validates and confirms the multidimensionality of social media functionality in the
tourism industry. It also examines the impact of social media functionality on green …

In this chapter the authors provide a new model of global engagement that outlines best
practices on collaborative online learning and global engagement. They discuss the …