Many higher education institutions around the world are increasingly motivated to
incorporate social media for pedagogical benefit. At the same time, many institutions are …

Increasingly visual social media platforms such as Instagram (IG) constitute a large part of
young women's daily lives, but their psychological effects have not yet been studied at the …

Undertaking a PhD entails diverse and multi-faceted challenges as doctoral researchers
enter a distinct academic culture that requires transition to a new level and threshold of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to familiarize managers with alternative social media
applications of cross-cultural training approaches. Design/methodology/approach–This …

Approaching the new media literacies as social practices through the lens of Participatory
Culture Framework, the present study adapted new media literacies to online social …

Social media has been increasingly used in education to facilitate innovative instruction.
Mainland Chinese people could not use popular social media platforms such as …

This exploratory research utilizes the lens of uses and gratifications theory (UGT) to examine
cross‐cultural differences in consumers' motives for using social media to build peer‐to …

This study examined the role of social media in the lives of Saudi female international
college students as they faced issues related to adjusting to living and studying in a culture …

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the role of online communities and the
impact of educational social media on 14 Saudi female college students who were studying …

Introduction: Social media (SM) has gained rapid adoption and provided new opportunities
for communication. This study pilot tested a suite of SM use indexes to better measure and …