The Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion: A Double-Edged Sword

Stieglitz, Stefan; Roß, Björn

doi:10.17645/mac.v10i2.5792

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“…WhatsApp, as an instant messaging app, invented by Brian Acton and Jan Koum in 2009, has been acknowledged as an important social media platform for information sharing and receiving [38], and it is being utilized among professional groups to disseminate information [38][39][40][41]. Similar to the observations in this study, professional groups have been found to utilize WhatsApp in sharing messages that can advance social cohesion and socialization [42][43][44]. Social cohesion among the group in this study was apparent in the WhatsApp chats, as members addressed themselves using first person pronouns such as we, us, and our group/association.…”

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Social presence and dynamics of group communication: An analysis of a health professionals WhatsApp group chats

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WhatsApp has become a medium of communication with the potential of promoting collaborative environment with peers, patients and general population. Till date, no analysis of professional WhatsApp groups’ activities exists in physiotherapy. The official WhatsApp group chats of the Association of Clinical and Academic Physiotherapists of Nigeria (ACAPN) was analyzed. A total of 20760 chats were gleaned from July 2020 to June 2021. Videos, audios and emoticons were excluded in the analysis. Administrative permission to conduct was obtained from ACAPN leadership. Two consenting physiotherapists who had never deleted their ACAPN group chats shared and exported all chats to a Gmail. The social presence theory for group communication was used as the framework of analysis. Thematic content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data. Descriptive statistics of frequency and percentages were used to summarize data. Based on social presence theory classifications, interactive messages (64.5%) followed by cohesive messages (30%) were predominant. Members used the platform more for expression of emotions affectively (100%), referring explicitly to others’ messages interactively (56.6%) and for greetings (phatic and salutation) cohesively (61.8%). Qualitative themes indicate that all three categories of social presence theory communications were present sufficiently with interactive category being the most common, as members used the WhatsApp platform to interact, construct and share knowledge. Group WhatsApp platform is a veritable means of communication and an indicator of level of social presence among Nigerian physiotherapists. Communication among Nigerian physiotherapists is mostly interactive, then cohesive and affective in terms of dynamics.

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Social presence and dynamics of group communication: An analysis of a health professionals WhatsApp group chats

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“…The discourse conducted till now article was focusing on the use of social media in facilitating social/societal change. One needs to understand that with the rise of social media, Internet communication became a doubleedged sword [33,34]. Parting from the perspective of one-way communication (Web 1.0) and becoming interactive (Web 2.0) it enabled two-way communication [8], often based on the reciprocity rule and enabled building a competitive advantage in the context of electronic communication with the use of social media [35].…”

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Social media & uprisings: The case of the Egyptian revolution in 2011

Fakhry¹,

Tarabasz²,

Selaković³

2023

MATEC Web Conf.

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The present exploratory study adopts the case of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising, as it is particularly illustrative of the climacteric impact of technology on past social and societal conflicts. The latter will be achieved through a systematic review of literature which examines the different ways through which social media was used, as well as the impact it had on facilitating social change with regards to the Egyptian Revolution. The research problem aims to examine the different ways through which social media was used during the Egyptian Uprising, as well as the impact it had on facilitating social change. It caters to a discovery-oriented decision problem and focuses on revealing how social media influences social change while shedding light particularly on the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and the implications social media carried towards it. The conducted exploratory study adequately demonstrates that social media is found to have an undeniable influence on social change, especially as it has been adopted across various phases of the uprising, including its utilization for the initial formation of communities, as well as for promoting the collective movement. Findings of this study will be of great value to future academic studies, as it serves to depict social media as a mechanism of information dissemination in the Arab and/or non-Arab world, whilst correlating to the varied utilities of social media during times of crises and the impact it had on facilitating social change.

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“…Hence, it might be a "time-bomb" for the app since humorous would either harmful or harmless. Moreover, no boundaries on "humorous" content nor commentary insisted onto the cyberbullying (Steer et al, 2020), misinformation (Stieglitz & Ross, 2022), or wasting food. Until the time of writing, there is no significant action from TikTok itself, which resulted in toleration these contents by the public.…”

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Wasting Food Practice on Tiktok: Micro-Fame, Profit, and Trendiness

Syahriyani,

Nurazizah,

Sakinata

et al. 2023

j.komun.

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This research aims to investigate the phenomenon of wasting food practice, which once became a trend on TikTok, during pandemic era. This study utilizes a qualitative method with elaboration and literature review on several research related to the issue. The analysis revealed that the emergence of wasting food content trends on TikTok was related to the coherence between globalization as the root of the era of technological progress, the ideology of capitalism driven by changes in people's mindsets, and active participatory culture as capitalist behavior that promotes the wasting food content for the sake of individual satisfaction (fame and trendiness) and profit. This study also concluded that TikTok served as the social media which offered public benefit in the form of creative video content that might violate the social norms.

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The Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion: A Double-Edged Sword

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Social presence and dynamics of group communication: An analysis of a health professionals WhatsApp group chats

Social presence and dynamics of group communication: An analysis of a health professionals WhatsApp group chats

Social media & uprisings: The case of the Egyptian revolution in 2011

Wasting Food Practice on Tiktok: Micro-Fame, Profit, and Trendiness

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