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A dynamic longitudinal examination of social media use, needs, and gratifications among college students

Zheng Wang, +2 more
- 01 Sep 2012 - 
- Vol. 28, Iss: 5, pp 1829-1839
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This study specifies dynamic uses and gratifications of social media in the everyday lives of college students using experience sampling data across 4weeks to account for the situated, adaptive, and dynamic nature of mediated cognition and behavior.
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This article is published in Computers in Human Behavior.The article was published on 2012-09-01. It has received 217 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social competence & Social media.

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The Experience Sampling Method on Mobile Devices

TL;DR: An overview of the history of the ESM, usage of this methodology in the computer science discipline, as well as its evolution over time, is provided and important considerations for ESM studies on mobile devices are identified.
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Emerging in a Digital World A Decade Review of Media Use, Effects, and Gratifications in Emerging Adulthood

TL;DR: This article found that exposure to certain types of media content can influence both positive and negative outcomes in emerging adulthood, including, aggressive and prosocial behavior, body image, sexual behavior, friendship quality, and academic achievement.
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Social Media Use During Disasters: How Information Form and Source Influence Intended Behavioral Responses

TL;DR: Findings call for developing crisis communication theory that is more focused on how publics communicate with each other rather than with organizations about disasters and predict a wider variety of crisis communication outcomes.
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Terms of engagement

TL;DR: Findings point toward the need to consider the spontaneous nature of online sociability, the relationship between online engagement and the organization-public relationship, and the concept of engagement itself.
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Antecedents of social presence and gratification of social connection needs in SNS

TL;DR: This study of Twitter users posits that users are drawn to SNS to fulfill their social connection needs and that the sense of social presence SNS engender plays a significant role in fulfilling these needs and argues that this sense ofsocial presence is formed by immediacy-related and intimacy-related characteristics of SNS in Twitter.
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