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Perceptions And Misperceptions Of Smartphone Use: Applying The Social Norms Approach, John Mcalaney, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Georgina Powell, Raian Ali
Perceptions And Misperceptions Of Smartphone Use: Applying The Social Norms Approach, John Mcalaney, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Georgina Powell, Raian Ali
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The social norms approach is an established technique to bring about behaviour change through challenging misperceptions of peer behaviour. This approach is limited by a reliance on self-report and a lack of interactivity with the target population. At the same time, excessive use of digital devices, known as digital addiction, has been recognized as an emergent issue. There is potential to apply the social norms approach to digital addiction and, in doing so, address some of the limitations of the social norms field. In this study, we trialled a social norms …
Real-Time Tracking And Mining Of Users’ Actions Over Social Media, Ejub Kajan, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Emir Ugljanin, Hamamache Kheddouci, Dragan H. Stojanović, Djamal Benslimane
Real-Time Tracking And Mining Of Users’ Actions Over Social Media, Ejub Kajan, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Emir Ugljanin, Hamamache Kheddouci, Dragan H. Stojanović, Djamal Benslimane
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© 2020, ComSIS Consortium. All rights reserved. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies and social media, companies are actively looking for ways to know and understand what users think and say about their products and services. Indeed, it has become the practice that users go online using social media like Facebook to raise concerns, make comments, and share recommendations. All these actions can be tracked in real-time and then mined using advanced techniques like data analytics and sentiment analysis. This paper discusses such tracking and mining through a system called Social Miner that allows companies to make decisions about …
Security Techniques For Intelligent Spam Sensing And Anomaly Detection In Online Social Platforms, Monther Aldwairi, Lo'ai Tawalbeh
Security Techniques For Intelligent Spam Sensing And Anomaly Detection In Online Social Platforms, Monther Aldwairi, Lo'ai Tawalbeh
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Copyright © 2020 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved. The recent advances in communication and mobile technologies made it easier to access and share information for most people worldwide. Among the most powerful information spreading platforms are the Online Social Networks (OSN)s that allow Internet-connected users to share different information such as instant messages, tweets, photos, and videos. Adding to that many governmental and private institutions use the OSNs such as Twitter for official announcements. Consequently, there is a tremendous need to provide the required level of security for OSN users. However, there are many challenges due …