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1) Features of. Net: Microsoft .NET is a set of Microsoft software technologies for rapidly building and integrating XML Web services, Microsoft Windows-based applications, and Web solutions. The .NET Framework is a language-neutral platform for writing programs that can easily and securely interoperate. There’s no language barrier with .NET: there are numerous languages available to the developer including Managed C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java Script. The .NET framework provides the foundation for components to interact seamlessly, whether locally or remotely on different platforms. It standardizes common data types and communications protocols so hat components created in different languages can easily interoperate.“.NET” is also the collective name given to various software components built upon the .NET platform. These will be both products (Visual Studio.NET and Windows.NET Server, for instance) and services (like Passport, .NET My Services, and so on).

Equally, addressing VAW on social media calls for drafting of laws that would deter the would-be perpetrators. It will be worthwhile to conduct a study aimed at the development of legal definitions of VAW, targeted at Kenyan ICT policy. In Kenya, a look at events that follow any attempt by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) to regulate the use of the tools of ICT and other mainstream media reveal a very strong civil rights movement bent on protecting the right of freedom of speech at all costs. Demonstrations by journalists and bloggers almost always follow any attempt at CCK regulation. Perhaps due to the Kenya history where media voices were silenced during the one party rule, the media practitioners feel a need to fiercely protect the gains they have made through hard struggle.

As already noted, the power of the new media for information sharing and mobilization for action is lucidly exemplified by the much cited Arab Spring that began in December of 2010 and swept dictators of long standing out of power sometimes with disastrous consequences for the dictator: Ben Ali of Tunisia went into exile, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt endured months of humiliating show trial along with his two sons and was finally sentenced to do time in prison, and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya was killed by the same longsuffering Libyan people that he for decades subjugated. And although they have now largely petered out, but the `Occupy Movements’ seen in some western countries as the United States of America (Occupy Wall Street being perhaps the best known), Spain, Greece, etc, were in the main mobilised for through the social media. The Nigerian government had a first-hand experience of the power of the social media in the practical expression of public opinion against its policy seen in the `Occupy Nigeria’ Fuel Subsidy Removal Protests of January 2012 and in the 2014 Bring Back Our Girls online protests. The Chibok school girls’ abduction by the extremist Islamic group, Boko Haram, described by the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, as `pure evil’, generated much online international outcry over the fate of the girls and outrage at the Nigerian government’s apparent lack of action to the point that the Presidential Spokesman, Mr. Abati, dubbed it the `Hashtag Tyranny.’ The Chibok school girls’ tragic situation that equally galvanized people of all ages and cultures in Nigeria into real world protests, protests banned in May 2014 by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration over `security concerns,’ and other protests across the world, underscore the argument of some writers (Williams and Tedesco 2006; Tufekci and Wilson 2012) about the potential of the social media in helping their users become more engaged in political and public affairs.

Practices in web-based social networking are just seen by the follows they leave in web-based life. We seldom watch the driving elements that reason these practices; nor would we be able to talk with people in regards to their practices. Regardless of whether a conduct is investigated via web-based networking media & related examples are gathered, it's hard to check the legitimacy of these personal conduct standards. Assessment turns out to be significantly all the more trying for enterprises in which critical choices are to be mentioned dependent on objective facts of individual conduct [12].

Healthcare social media consulting is a bubble economy at the moment. Social media is a powerful tool for communicating to patients, other physicians and interacting with scientists across the world. But most GPs and healthcare providers have little free time. In order to facilitate easy communication between medical professionals including the ability to ask each other questions, share information, opinions, observations, and more, a number of social networks and apps can be introduced, evaluated and integrated. We were also concerned to question– can this system use social media functionality to improve doctors rating and provide reputational information? One direct answer from an expert was “Connectivity is productivity. We consider service as a product, anyone can increase his/her position by providing proper service at real time.” Another described “this idea is new in our country but in many developed countries this system is old. They improve and explore their popularity by social media. This application can help doctors improve their ratings and people can consider according to their rating point. On the other hand users also analyse which doctors are more engaged to give answer and to which doctor people gives more rating. We are not used to this is in our country but it has potential”. A patient response was that he could find the best doctor by reviewing the rating point and he was confident to find authentic advice without any mediator.

More generally, it has been emphasized in the literature how the integration of social media platforms with healthcare behaviors triggers and encourages positive health behavior outcomes [7, 10, 33]. An example is the encouraging of regular exercise and the reduction of sugar consumption, which is achieved through the posting of sugar intake information certain social media platforms. This indirectly triggers a positive effect by reducing the chances to acquire chronic diseases, such as diabetes. Other prior studies utilized Facebook and WhatsApp platforms to provide a medium for supporting quitting behaviour [14] such as providing social support and discussion forums of nicotine replacement therapy [37].

Using a volunteer sampling method, students were primarily recruited through Cal Poly in-class participation. Using a snowball sampling approach, invitations to participate were also given via various Cal Poly Facebook groups. First, the questionnaire began with a consent form that informed students that their participation was voluntary and anonymous. Next, participants were randomly assigned to view one of three social media platform conditions (Appendix A1-3). After reading the hypothetical message written by an acquaintance, participants reported their perceptions regarding flirtatiousness and discomfort by filling out the appropriate measures (Appendix B). Lastly, respondents completed a manipulation check measure (Appendix B) to ensure they were cognizant of the platform they viewed the message on. The manipulation check was followed by questions about participant demographics (age, sex, year in college, and ethnicity). As an incentive, participants had the option to complete a Google form to receive extra credit. The Qualtrics data and Google form data were not linked.

This case study of an international electronic discussion group for forensic occupational therapists illustrates the value of social media as a platform to increase commu- nication, information exchange and networking between healthcare professionals with a shared interest and who may be isolated within their practice area. The inter- national nature of the membership also illustrates the advantages that such a resource has in sharing and de- veloping practice between nations. As the group was developed on an early web-based discussion group plat- form it is does not have the functionality that newer and more popular social media sites have. This limits the abilities of the current site and may be contributing to the noticeable decrease in its usage. Consideration of sustainability and ‘ future proofing ’ should be given when developing any new social media platform resource for health professionals, as migrating members from one platform to another is a significant task and likely to re- sult in loss of members in the process.

There is a gradual paradigm shift in the delivery of distance education in Ghana that is a shift from dependent on print and media to integration of ICT. Tertiary institutions in Ghana are scaling up on the use of ICT in teaching and learning, the University of Education, Winneba is not an exception. This is in line with the five-generational stages of distance learning as indicated by Taylor (2001). The scale up in ICTs has created a platform for an unimaginable demand for social media platforms. As such, this pilot study on the use of telegram social media platform as a form of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for tutorials and learning is to prove that virtual kind of learning if well utilized with internet and WWW technologies at the Institute for Distance and eLearning with specific reference to the Techiman Study Centre, will go a very long way to enhance teaching and learning. This study is therefore meant to project the significance and benefits of the Telegram social media platform with respect to its impact as a form of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to the Institute of Distance and eLearning (IDeL), Techiman Study Centre.

Due to this buying behaviour, social media content promotion concept creates a lot of interest in the consumer's mind and therefore the consumer is willing to buy online now. As many people got attracted towards the online retailing, banner advertisement promotions have acquired great importance in advertisement age. At the same time, entry of social media has created great interest in communication and advertisement sector. Social media attract many people for searching and for communicating amongst people. Facebook is one of the important social media websites having largest number of users in social media (e-marketer, 2013). People use the social network for the sharing of information and connecting with friends. Companies are looking towards those social networking sites as a key buyer's population for the promotions. Lorenzetti, J. P. (2008) discusses the use of Facebook advertisement as promotional tools for the education sector and reveals the use of Facebook, to target both graduate and undergraduate management students having a sports background. Most of the organizations sponsoring promotional advertisement on the social media and investing lot of money are mistargeted, due to lack of proper knowledge about a perception of social media users. A large number of promotions go unnoticed by consumers because advertisers choose the wrong advertisement characteristics; such as placement of promotions on the blocks of social media platform, messages sent are unclear, and the demographic characteristics of the target audience are not clearly identified.

Tourism is one of the main contributor industries to the Thailand’s economy. But in today’s world, people have higher income, education and technological advancement which creates a shift in tourist’s and traveler’s attitude and preferences. The tourism market became highly competitive. But with various technological advancement, it has never been easier for the tourist marketer to promote the travel destination to the potential tourist. These are the measures recommended according to the result of this study Firstly, as the result shows that the social media or the information source have an influence on the travel motivation and destination image, the travel marketer emphasize on the social media to be a destination promotion channel. Moreover, the results also show that the most popular social media platform that the people of Thailand use for searching for the destination image is Pantip and YouTube, therefore these platforms can be used to communicate the promotion to the potential Thai’s tourist, creating a positive destination image and increase the intention to travel to Phuket. Secondly, the tourist marketer should design their market strategies or promotion highlighting the importance on the destination image. As the destination image is the main factor that connect between social media, motivation and travel intention. The marketers should be focusing on how to create and increase positive destination image. Lastly, majority of people have positive destination image on Phuket and would recommend others to visit. However, variables such as safety could be further studied, as safety variable is one of the variables that received the lowest score in both Cognitive image and Affective image section. Presuming that the destination might not be a safe place may lessen people intention to visit Phuket. The tourist marketer when doing the promotion should highlight projecting Phuket to be a safe place to travel. Moreover, beaches and island should be showcased while promoting so that people get a unique image of Phuket.

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Social media is understood in its simple form in this paper as interactive websites and applications that empower users to engage by creating and sharing content in a social network. However, because of the pervasiveness of social networking sites (SNS), which is a subset of social media, among business organizations and individuals alike, and due to the features of the medium which include low entry cost, convenience and easy usage of the service [8] by broadcast stations and individuals, SNSs is used as a synonym to social media in this paper. Broadcast stations on the other hand, engage in broadcast activities and the audience is what keeps commercial broadcast stations sustainable as a result of advertising revenue which a large station audience attracts. Broadcasting in this paper therefore, refers to the spread or diffusion of programs or content from the mass medium of radio to the public through terrestrial broadcast and on social media platform. Broadcast content extends to social media platforms in order for broadcast stations to enjoy social capital and economic benefits. Bourdieu offered the first contemporary definition of social capital as “the sum of actual or potential resources related to the possession of a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of acquaintance and recognition” [9]. This definition suggests that social networks or social relationships are the main component in the definition of social capital. Social capital therefore, equals benefits that can be derived from social relationships. Social relationships are thus, a precondition for social capital [10]. For the purpose of this paper therefore, the focus is on terrestrial radio stations as organizational entities in relationships with their publics on social media in order to gain social capital.

The findings of the current study must be considered in light of its limitations. One limitation of the study is its generalizability to other college campus contexts. The study utilized a non-probability sampling technique and was conducted at one large, public, urban, southeastern university with one local crowdsourced social media platform. Thus, its results may not be applicable to students at other universities. The study would have also benefitted from the inclusion of more DT non-users in the sample. However, due to the popularity of DT, it was difficult to locate and recruit DT non-users. The data were self-reported, and more objective measures of alcohol use behaviors would have been beneficial. The study’s quantitative nature was not designed for gathering qualitative data on student’s perspectives concerning whether they think DT might influence individual and peer alcohol consumption behaviors, and if so, in which ways. It would also be helpful to ask students if they routinely use the information transmitted across the platform to circumvent alcohol-related law enforcement or consider

using social media a decade ago (Perrin, 2015). Due to its growing popularity and near ubiquity among young adults, social media is now an important new avenue for sociocultural factors to exert influence on young women. For example, social media allows greater opportunities for social interactions with a wider and more diverse network of individuals and allows for larger networks of social support which could potentially have positive impacts on users. However, social media also enables greater opportunities for detrimental processes such as body comparisons with peers and celebrities. This may be especially true as visual-based forms of social media continue to gain in popularity. Instagram is now especially popular among young adults. Introduced in 2010, Instagram had already been adopted by 59% of young adults just six years later in 2016, quickly surpassing the older and more text-based platform, Twitter, which was used by only 36% of young adults that same year (Greenwood, Perrin, & Duggan, 2016). Facebook, which continues to be the most popular social media platform, began as a text-based platform but has also been putting increased emphasis on visual content over the past several years, first adding the ability to post photos in October 2005 and then introducing video sharing capabilities in 2010 (Products.).

pattern of social media by undergraduate accounting students, along with the effect of social media on academic performance. Accounting students engage actively in social media for academic-related tasks. With Facebook as the predominant media, the accounting students mostly use social media for sharing and exchanging course-related materials, academic information, and to comprehend complex academic topics. The relationship of using social media for online sharing and comprehending academic matter was positive. Therefore, if social media is taken as a formal platform and is incorporated in university academic tasks, it would help students. On the other hand, for personal tutorial support and project-related help, the relationship between the usage of social media and outcome was negative. Therefore, if the communication between students and tutors are enhanced through the social media platform, then the relationship would be more pronounced, and the use of social media for academic understanding would be more effective. Also, for the completion of course tasks, the significance of the relationship was negative. The reason could be the inaccuracy of information shared via social media or time management in the vast content of social media hamper the successful completion of the course tasks. However, in different studies, this particular factor appeared as beneficial for the students (Liu et al., 2017; Pempek et al., 2009; Lei & Zhao, 2007). Therefore, if proper workshops are arranged to ensure effective use of social media for a formal learning environment, the students as a stakeholder of this platform would receive more assistance. In conclusion, the study framed the usage pattern and factors that influence students to use social media for academic purposes. Though the study measured the academic performance through the grade point (CGPA), there is a scope for future research to assess the relationship with other qualitative factors such as self-confidence, communication, and the personality of the students.

The challenge, then, goes far beyond letting go of the didactic model of education, and touches on more profound issues of the philosophy of risk. In letting material such as the vulgar comedy videos in our study into the wild, the challenge for sexual health and education organisations is to see these risks as learning opportunities that young people are taking up as part of their everyday lives, which are already integrated into the social media ecology; and to find ways to amplify the opportunities for healthy sexual development that these learning experiences (including exposure to challenging content) might represent (see Livingstone & Helsper 2010). Just as the big entertainment producers have had to learn the hard way that they can’t directly participate in the fandoms that emerge out of an affective engagement with their content if they want it to be ‘spreadable’ (Jenkins, Ford & Green 2013), so too sex educators who want to engage with the social media ecology and its cultures of connectivity and spreadability will need to accept a profound loss of control if they want to contribute ideas and content around healthy sexual development to the social media ecology. Further experiments in this project will test these ideas as we release some of the 7 Funny Guys content into the wild, where we will be able to observe the limits of control and surveillance over peer learning, and both the opportunities and challenges of sexual health organisations reframing themselves as spreadable media producers and curators.

However, the commercial nature of the structures under investigation actually led to the infiltration of the investigatory method itself by commercial forces. For example, campaigns were found through analysis of trending topics on Facebook and Twitter exactly the way that citizens find out about things, but exactly as designed by the companies that created the tools. The methods therefore were likely to reinforce the resultant findings, and so it was particularly important to include alternative means of investigation. There were clear challenges to this commercial and technological hegemony in the form of communities that form around specific topics doctors seeking to take action about management of the NHS, environmental activists seeking to pressure the government over energy and conservation policy and civil rights activists seeking social justice and changes to policing and law enforcement as well as communities that form elsewhere and occasionally discuss political events, which, as mentioned earlier, is consistent with previous studies by Scott Wright (2006, 2012a, 2012b) and Todd Graham (2008, 2010, 2012). The content produced by some of these communities was present within the sample collected by the analytics platform (though it was a small proportion), but some was not and only became apparent through alternative searches and analysis. Manual investigation did illustrate this alternative view of discursive participation and discussion of political issues in specific spaces online. While these methods could only highlight behaviour such as this at a very small scale, it is still a valuable demonstration of alternative participation models that exist alongside those illustrated through big data methods.

Peace Revolution is a project that aims to empower young people via a youth development process to make informed and ethical choices about how they live their lives and actively participate in society. The process allows Peace Rebels to provide positive messages and activities relating to their personal IPT experience. The self-development program enables Peace Rebels to learn more about proper ethical conduct and help them have a better understanding about consequences of having respect in others’ life, property, family, sincerity and integrity, which is considered a basic human value. While media alone is not sufficient to achieve peaceful outcomes to conflicts, it has the potential to be a great aid in addressing problems of communication. The media can be a productive institution in the pursuit of peace-building.

Abstract: The enormous growth and volume of online social networks and their features, along with the vast number of socially connected users, it has become difficult to explain the true semantic value of published content for the detection of user behaviors. Without understanding the contextual background, it is impractical to differentiate among various groups in terms of their relevance and mutual relations, or to identify the most significant representatives from the community at large. In this paper, we propose an integrated social media content analysis platform that leverages three levels of features, i.e., user-generated content, social graph connections, and user profile activities, to analyze and detect anomalous behaviors that deviate significantly from the norm in large-scale social networks. Several types of analyses have been conducted for a better understanding of the different user behaviors in the detection of highly adaptive malicious users.