Eating disorders and social media use are two big concerns when it comes to teens. Here is what the research and experts say about the connection between the two.

Kakkar operationalized social influence by measuring the number of times a participant’s tweets were retweeted. Network centrality, or how often participants were directly mentioned, tagged, or ...

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32%) and visit brand pages on Facebook (43% vs. 30%). In addition, moms are more likely than other women to believe they can influence companies by voicing opinions on social networks (63% vs. 56%).

Increasing screen time and social media use significantly raise the risk of eating disorders among teens. Exposure to unattainable body ideals and cyberbullying exacerbate these risks. Experts ...

Social media content becomes viral very quickly and it is difficult to control the viral content and it is difficult to control the trademark infringement. The most tragic part is that even if the ...

it would be wrong to believe that social networks do not influence elections, said Andreas Jungherr, professor of political science and digital transformation at Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg.

Forehand, Mark R., Rohit Deshpandé, and Americus Reed III. "Identity Salience and the Influence of Differential Activation of the Social Self-Schema on Advertising Response." Journal of Applied ...