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Platform-Driven Pandemic Management
Published in Ram Shringar Raw, Vishal Jain, Sanjoy Das, Meenakshi Sharma, Pandemic Detection and Analysis Through Smart Computing Technologies, 2022
Jayachandran Kizhakoot Ramachandran, Puneet Sachdeva
A platform approach helps to bring together diverse technologies, processes, systems, innovations and provides a common framework where there is better coordination, leverage of synergies, and a common cause for a larger purpose. Traditional ways of getting things done has been disrupted by technology platforms which had brought in multiple stakeholders on a common framework like eCommerce, social media, open education, risk management. We have seen how such platforms have broken barriers, created a level playing field and brought in unprecedented efficiencies. The future is all about collaboration and bringing the best of everyone, and it is even more important when we are challenged by an existential crisis due to the pandemic. Humanity has always produced breakthrough ideas during crisis, and it has brought the best in them. This crisis is for us to exploit, technology is going to be at the root of it, and platforms is the way to go. “The line between disorder and order lies in logistics...”—Sun Tzu
How social media use is related to student engagement and creativity: investigating through the lens of intrinsic motivation
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2022
Muhammad Awais Gulzar, Mudaser Ahmad, Marria Hassan, Muhammad Imran Rasheed
Our research has some practical contributions for academicians, students, and the general public. First, our results highlight the significance of technology, such as the benefits of social media in education. In particular, it tells us that the utility of social media shouldn’t only be considered for recreational purposes but it has several other benefits in academia as it increases the engagement and creativity of learners in academic activities. This study suggests that educational institutions, teachers, students, and parents should realise the positive application of social media in academia and should encourage the students to utilise the platforms of social media, say Researchgate, Scribd, Linkedin, Academia.edu, etc. The utilisation of social media can increase intrinsic motivation of students, which is subsequently associated with students’ engagement and creativity. Our findings suggest that relevant stakeholders should recognise the usefulness of social media, which is linked positively with students’ intrinsic motivation. Thus, a higher intrinsic motivation is not only associated with the engagement of students and the creativity, but the previous finding have shown the relationship between students’ intrinsic motivation and many other positive outcomes such as students achievements (Griffin 2016) and students success (Augustyniak et al. 2016).
The Impact of Flow Experience and Personality Type on the Intention to Use Virtual World
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2019
Norita Ahmad, Hamda Abdulkarim
We found that flow, personality types, and perceived usefulness play a significant role in the success of a VW, and is considered a competitive necessity for the success of any VW application environment. Testing the model on SL as an example of a VW, we found that despite the great promise that it had in 2003, the lack of flow, not personalizing the environment based on personality type, and the lack of perceived usefulness may be some reasons for its diminished popularity and decline in the past few years. In addition to the above factors, easy to use and more popular alternatives to SL such as social media could be the reason for its diminished popularity. In a study that explores the use of social media in education, many higher education scholars turn to social media such as Facebook and LinkedIn for professional and personal use as they find it much easier to connect and collaborate with their peers (Manca & Ranieri, 2016). Social media is also used in the health sector by patients and professionals. A study showed that 59.9% and 52.3% of patients mainly use Twitter and Facebook respectively for exchanging health related advice while 70.7% and 51.2% of professionals use LinkedIn and Twitter respectively for communicating with their peers and colleagues (Antheunis, Tates, & Nieboer, 2013).
Parental neglect and emotional wellbeing among adolescent students from India: social network addiction as a mediator and gender as a moderator
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2023
Vijayabanu Chidambaram, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Satyanarayana Parayitam
One may argue that parents have a role in controlling the younger adults from getting addicted to SN sites. Parents’ behavioural control in regulating what their children do plays a vital role in shaping the behaviour (Pomerantz and Wang 2009). Specific family issues, unsupportive parents, neglected parents, abusive parents, and authoritative parents will make the adolescent students infatuated towards social networking (Bandura 1986). Several studies documented that SN sites attract adolescent students (Bányai et al. 2017; O’Keefe and Clarke-Pearson 2011), and these students spend a considerable amount of time visiting the SN sites. Over a period, repeated use of SN sites results in ‘addictive behavior,’ which causes main concern for parents and academicians. In educational institutions, though it is expected that these young adults use social media for education, excessive use of these sites may have harmful consequences such as poor academic performance and psychological wellbeing. Researchers in child psychology argue that parents play a significant role in children's intellectual development from childhood to adulthood through parental psychological and behavioural control (Centinkaya 2019). The parental neglect, parental pressure, loneliness, and superfluous parental role model will end unhealthy emotional wellbeing (Bandura 1986). To see that SN Addiction does not result in depression and anxiety among young adults, the parents need to take and watch what these young adults are doing. The absence of parental care may develop symptoms of SN Addiction (such as distress and anxiety) among adolescent children. Some researchers found that social media networking addiction negatively impacts emotional health, and hence they are ‘at risk’ level of emotional wellbeing (Andreassen et al. 2013; Bányai et al. 2017; Xu and Tan 2012). The poor psychological health and emotional wellbeing will make the students lose concentration in academics, thereby adversely affecting performance. Further, these students will not be able to maintain relationships with faculty members. Relatively recent research suggested that young adults engage in social networking activity because of ‘fear of missing out (FOMO) (Buglass et al. 2017). FOMO is the trepidation of believing the absence of participation in networking enables the other members to get rewarding experiences. (Przybylski et al. 2013).