Social Media Use in 2018

By A. Anderson. 2018

927 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/587ec4608f782fc3c4f3f3a1291b796ce6cb57dc

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Citations in the corpus

• No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression (2018, background): “The control group was instructed to continue to use social media as usual, while the intervention group was told to limit their usage on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to 10 minutes per platform per day.”
• Combating Fake News (2019, background): “Smith and Anderson [104] also established that 74% of the Facebook users use the site daily, with 51% using it several times a day; and a large fraction of frequent users lie in the 18–29 range.”
• Relationship management through social media influencers: Effects of followers’ awareness of paid endorsement (2019, background): “College age students were chosen as respondents as they are the most active population on social media (Smith & Anderson, 2018).”
• All the News That’s Fit to Click: The Economics of Clickbait Media (2019, background): “In 2016, 68% of adults in the US used Facebook, and 74% of adult Facebook users use Facebook every day (Smith & Anderson, 2018), providing both an audience and a distribution platform for online content.”
• Newsfeed native advertising on Facebook: young millennials’ knowledge, pet peeves, reactance and ad avoidance (2019, background): “Indeed, the Pew Research Center finds that a relatively large share of young millennials (51% of 18- to 24-year olds and 40% of 25- to 29-year olds) would give up social media without much difficulty (Smith and Anderson 2018).”
• Why are consumers following social media influencers on Instagram? Exploration of consumers’ motives for following influencers and the role of materialism (2021, background): “The specific age group was recruited given that they are the most active age group of social media users (Smith and Anderson 2018).”
• A review of Internet use among older adults (2018, methodology): “Based on Pew Research Center data analysis, use of social network sites among those 65 and older grew from 13% in 2009 to 33% in 2011 (Zickuhr and Madden, 2012) with over 40% using social media in 2018 (Smith and Anderson, 2018).”
• Sharing of fake news on social media: Application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis (2020, unknown): “This specific age group was selected because the existing studies suggest that young adults are voracious users of SMPs (Smith and Anderson, 2018).”
• Using a Personality-Profiling Algorithm to Investigate Political Microtargeting: Assessing the Persuasion Effects of Personality-Tailored Ads on Social Media (2020, unknown): “Young adults were chosen given they are among the heavy users of social media, and hence, most often exposed to PMT on these platforms (Smith & Anderson, 2018).”