As social media use becomes increasingly widespread among adolescents, research in this
area has accumulated rapidly. Researchers have shown a growing interest in the impact of …

Abstract Enterprise Social Media Platforms (ESMPs) are arenas for self-presentation where
employees construct, co-create, and maintain an online image among their colleagues. This …

Internet users are increasingly becoming self-publishing consumers. Applying the Uses and
Gratifications (U&G) perspective, this study investigated how people use TikTok in terms of …

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings
of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our …

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, Asians and Asian Americans have been experiencing an
uptick of discrimination. With most people experiencing months of lockdowns, social media …

Previous studies have investigated the role of social comparison on Facebook. The social
comparison process occurring on Facebook and its impacts, however, has not been fully …

Social media are increasingly being used for educational purposes. The first part of this
article briefly reviews literature that reports on educational applications of social media tools …

Based on the uses and gratifications framework, this study examined associations between
motivations for using Facebook among college students, their concern for impression …

Social media may encourage novel ways of signaling that involve different purchase types
(experiential vs. material), signaling frequencies (multiple vs. single signals), and other …

This study explores Internet celebrities' personal brand development motivations and their
strategies for successful personal branding practices. It divides the motivations of Internet …