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Jaff, Mani (author)
The prevalence of mental health issues among adolescents and young adults is increasing, with social media usage identified as a potential contributing factor. As technology becomes more integral to daily life, the design decisions of social media platforms emerge as significant determinants of users' mental well-being.<br/>Despite awareness of...
master thesis 2024
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Marin, L. (author), Vică, Constantin (author)
The phenomenon of missed interactions between online users is a specific issue occurring when users of different language games interact on social media platforms. We use the lens of institutional theory to analyze this phenomenon and argue that current online institutions will necessarily fail to regulate user interactions in a way that...
journal article 2024
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Clegg, Stewart (author), Ninan, Dr Johan (author)
The concept of governmentality has proven useful to analyse how the reflexive management of people within and without the project is conducted. In this chapter we explore the organizational theory of governmentality and its importance in project settings. First, we identify the specificity of project governance and relate it to the definition...
book chapter 2023
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Foroughi, M. (author), de Andrade, Bruno (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author)
Social media platforms have been increasingly used by locals and tourists to express their opinions about buildings, cities, and built heritage in particular. Most recently, scholars have been using social media to conduct innovative research on built heritage and heritage management. Still, the application of artificial intelligence (AI)...
journal article 2023
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van de Poel, I.R. (author), Frank, Lily Eva (author), Hermann, Julia (author), Hopster, Jeroen (author), Lenzi, Dominic (author), Nyholm, Sven (author), Taebi, B. (author), Ziliotti, E. (author)
Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global...
book 2023
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Voinea, Cristina (author), Marin, L. (author), Vica, Constantin (author)
Many hypotheses have been advanced to explain the collective irrationality of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, such as partisanship and ideology, exposure to misinformation and conspiracy theories or the effectiveness of public messaging. This paper presents a complementary explanation to epistemic accounts of collective irrationality, focusing on...
journal article 2023
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Ninan, Dr Johan (author), Yadav, Rupesh (author)
Managing the perception of project communities is critical to the success of infrastructure megaprojects. This study focuses on the Nagpur metro rail project in India to understand people's experiences and discourses in the pre-construction, construction, and operation phases. We use qualitative content analysis and open coding of the tweets...
journal article 2023
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Marin, L. (author)
This paper proposes three principles for the ethical design of online social environments aiming to minimise the unintended harms caused by users while interacting online, specifically by enhancing the users’ awareness of the moral load of their interactions. Such principles would need to account for the strong mediation of the digital...
journal article 2022
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Foroughi, M. (author), de Andrade, Bruno (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author)
Social media has been increasingly used by various communities to express their opinions, values, and feelings about cities and, in particular, built heritage. Social media platforms, interactive technologies used by virtual communities and networks became an important source for recent innovative studies on participatory heritage management....
book chapter 2022
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Bak-Coleman, Joseph B. (author), Alfano, M.R. (author), Barfuss, Wolfram (author), Bergstrom, Carl T. (author), Centeno, Miguel A. (author), Couzin, Iain D. (author), Donges, Jonathan F. (author), Galesic, Mirta (author), Gersick, Andrew S. (author)
Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties of groups emerge from the way individuals generate and share information. In humans, information flows were initially shaped by natural selection yet are increasingly structured by emerging communication technologies. Our larger, more complex social...
review 2021
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Marin, L. (author)
This article explores the norms that govern regular users’ acts of sharing content on social networking sites. Many debates on how to counteract misinformation on Social Networking Sites focus on the epistemic norms of testimony, implicitly assuming that the users’ acts of sharing should fall under the same norms as those for posting original...
journal article 2021
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Gong, X. (author)
Using social media data, such as Twitter and Instagram, I identify relevant information, develop data models, estimate and analyse crowds’ characteristics in city events, including demographic and city-role composition, Spatial-temporal distribution, sentiment estimation, Points of Interest preferences, word use, crowd size and density...
doctoral thesis 2020
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Miller, S.R.M. (author)
This article provides definitions of fake news, hate speech and propaganda, respectively. These phenomenon are corruptive of the epistemic norms, e.g. to tell the truth. It also elaborates on the right to freedom of communication and its relation both to censoring propaganda and to the role of epistemic institutions, such as a free and...
book chapter 2020
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Marin, L. (author), Roeser, S. (author)
In this chapter we argue that emotions are mediated in an incomplete way in online social media because of the heavy reliance on textual messages which fosters a rationalistic bias and an inclination towards less nuanced emotional expressions. This incompleteness can happen either by obscuring emotions, showing less than the original intensity,...
book chapter 2020
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Gong, X. (author), Daamen, W. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)
Large-scale events are becoming more frequent in contemporary cities, increasing the need for novel methods and tools that can provide relevant stakeholders with quantitative and qualitative insights about attendees’ characteristics. In this work, we investigate how social media can be used to provide such insights. First, we screen a set of...
journal article 2020
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Steinert, S. (author)
People share their emotions on social media and evidence suggests that in times of crisis people are especially motivated to post emotional content. The current Coronavirus pandemic is such a crisis. The online sharing of emotional content during the Coronavirus crisis may contribute to societal value change. Emotion sharing via social media...
journal article 2020
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Simons, L.P.A. (author), van den Heuvel, Wouter A.C. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author)
WhatsApp was evaluated as group support tool for a high impact healthy lifestyle intervention, with 11 young professionals. Users valued the WhatsApp group as an attractive social support addition to the existing eTools and personal coaching. Based on preliminary results: 1) the WhatsApp group generated higher participation than most other...
journal article 2020
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Bouwman, W.A.G.A. (author), Nikou, Shahrokh (author), de Reuver, Mark (author)
Digital transformation is requiring companies to rethink and innovate their business models (BMs). However, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)have scarce time and resources for experimenting with their BMs and implementing new strategies. This paper examines whether SMEs that undergo digital transformation perform better if they...
journal article 2019
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Rana, Nripendra P. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Sahu, Ganesh P. (author), Baabdullah, Abdullah (author), Dwivedi, Yogesh K. (author)
The development of mobile technology is facilitating the transformation in a way that governments deliver their services. Mobile government is one area that has received very little research, but it can have a tremendous impact on the way citizens engage with their government. This research analyses the data gathered from 81 respondents through...
conference paper 2019
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de Kok, Roos (author), Mauri, A. (author), Bozzon, A. (author)
Understanding and improving the energy consumption behavior of individuals is considered a powerful approach to improve energy conservation and stimulate energy efficiency. To motivate people to change their energy consumption behavior, we need to have a thorough understanding of which energy-consuming activities they perform and how these...
journal article 2019
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