Social networking sites offer a lot of opportunities to organize and optimize the political campaign. These sites are also helpful to raise funds for the political campaign and to persuade voters. Presidential candidates use social media as a means of their presidential campaign. The goal of this study is to investigate the strategies of a political campaign which are used by candidates on their social networking sites, and reactions that candidates received from their audiences. Mixed methodology is used to collect, analyze, and mix both quantitative and qualitative data. For quantitative data collection and analysis, Quintly, a platform for social media data collection and analytics, is used. The qualitative data are collected from the candidates social networking sites directly. The content analysis of the candidates’ social media messages followed by an eclectic coding system that has two cycles of data, the first cycle data comes from TagCrowd, an online word visualization tool while the second cycle data involves similar codes and themes that emerged from the first cycle data. The study found that the social networking sites have become the main tool for political campaign communication. An effective usage of social networking sites in the presidential campaign helped candidates to attract more audiences and received more interactions. Candidates also need specific types of social media usages to optimize usages of social networking sites., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Zahedur Arman for further use of this material.
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Mass media Internet in political campaigns Communication in politics Elections Social media
This research is a qualitative and interpretive study of influences of culture on the development of eating disorders, comparing the United States and Ukraine. In this research, the autoethnographic component is an important key to elucidating cultural phenomena that either promotes or otherwise affects the development of an eating disorder, especially for girls and young women. Social media is another focus of this research, which provides significant materials for analysis of young women from different cultures and their struggles with eating disorders. This research also include autoethnographic narrative of a woman who has experienced an exposure to both, Ukrainian and American ideal body standards, as well as brief case studies of American women who have struggled with eating disorders., Copyright is retained by the author. Please contact Anastasiya Dasik for further use of this material.
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Eating disorders Anorexia nervosa Bulimia nervosa Social perception
This thesis answers how social media and music streaming services/music industry content, defined as advertising, physical releases, and publications, are positively linked and how different generations, from Baby Boomers to Gen Z individuals, experience and consume said content. The research of Salo, Lankinen and Mantymaki (2013) and Vaccaro and Cohn (2004) among others provides a chief background on the questions that made up a survey distributed to members of the Edinboro University community and beyond. Despite a small sample size, the data supports national and international results found in recent IFPI studies, and provides an in-depth look at how generations differ in terms of money spent, time spent listening, and preferred methods of music content consumption., Britton Rozzelle retains all rights to this material. Please contact the author for further use of this material.
This is a qualitative and interpretive study of the social construction of reality as it relates to the language that surrounds suicide. As noted by Berger and Luckmann (1966), thought is influenced by social relations and belief systems are constructed through social interaction. After a discussion and review of the history and morphology of the term suicide, this thesis looks at the social constructions involved in the two high-profile cases of Michelle Carter and Madison Holleran through an analysis of interactions on Twitter, a social media platform., All copyrights are retained by the author(s). Please contact the author(s) for future use of this material.
