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20 great career-building activities using Instagram and Snapchat
Explains how to use Instagram and Snapchat to help build a career portfolio, presenting twenty activities to improve success.
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The Internet Is for Cats
LOL cats. Grumpy Cat. Dog-rating Twitter. Pet Instagram accounts. It’s generally understood the internet is for pictures of cute cats (and dogs, and otters, and pandas). But what motivates people to make and share these images, and how do they relate to other online social practices?
The Internet is for Cats examines how animal images are employed to create a lighter, more playful mood, uniting users within online spaces that can otherwise easily become fractious and toxic. Placing today’s pet videos, photos, and memes within a longer history of mediated animal images, communication scholar Jessica Maddox also considers the factors that make them unique. She explores the roles that animals play within online economies of cuteness and attention, as well as the ways that animal memes and videos respond to common experiences of life under neoliberalism.
Conducting a rich digital ethnography, Maddox combines observations and textual analysis with extensive interviews of the people who create, post and share animal media, including TikTok influencers seeking to make their pets famous, activists tweeting about wildlife conservation, and Redditors upvoting every cute cat photo. The Internet is for Cats will leave you with a new appreciation for the human social practices behind the animal images you encounter online.
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This is happening : #life through the lens of Instagram
\"Featuring nearly 200 photos, [this collection] is the first-ever crowd-sourced book of images shot by and for Instagram users. This is a slice of life seen through the moments that give us pause, make us smile, and fill us with wonder\"--Page 2 of cover.
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The Impact of Orthodontists rsquo; Image-Based Social Media Posts on the Public rsquo;s Willingness to Seek Treatment in the Central Region of Saudi Arabia
Bassam Alalola,1– 3 Lama Alghanim,2– 4 Sarah Almoneef,2 Shaden Aba Numay,2 Adhwaa Aldghim,2 Jawaher Abu Wathlan1– 3 1Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 3King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 4Department of Restorative and Prosthetic Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Bassam Alalola, Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Ar Rimayah, Riyadh, 14611, Saudi Arabia, Tel +966505236929, Email bassamalola@gmail.comBackground: Social media has transformed communication and information sharing, significantly impacting various fields, including healthcare. This study investigates the influence of orthodontists’ social media posts on the Saudi public’s willingness to seek orthodontic treatment.Materials and Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional online survey was conducted among Saudi adults residing in the central region of Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire comprised three main sections, respectively aiming to capture the respondents’ demographic data, social media preferences, and willingness to seek orthodontic treatment (whereby images depicting different themes were rated on a 0− 10 scale). ANOVA was used to compare continuous data across multiple groups, while the unpaired t-test compared continuous data between two groups. The Pearson chi-squared test assessed frequency differences, with p ≤ 0.05 considered statistically significant.Results: Based on the survey involving 1267 Saudis, Snapchat is the most frequently browsed social media platform, followed by TikTok and Twitter. Image themes most likely to increase willingness to seek orthodontic treatment were “Before and After (Intraoral)” and “Before and After (Extraoral)”, with the average scores of 8.06 and 7.83, respectively. In contrast, images of “orthodontic screws” (3.45) and “orthodontic elastics” (3.79) were the least impactful.Conclusion: The types of images orthodontists share on social media can significantly influence the Saudi public’s willingness to seek treatment. By strategically using social media and posting visually appealing content, orthodontists have the potential to enhance public interest and grow their practices effectively.Keywords: before & after, Instagram®, orthodontics, social media
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“Aren’t These Just Young, Rich Women Doing Vain Things Online?”: Influencer Selfies as Subversive Frivolity
Taking seriously the global trend of selfies becoming marketable and entangled in ecologies of commerce, this article looks at Influencers who have emerged as (semi-)professional selfie-producers and for whom taking selfies is a purposively commercial, thoughtful, and subversive endeavor. Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and grounded theory analysis, I examine Influencers’ engagements with selfies on Instagram and their appropriations of selfies as salable objects, as tacit labor, and as an expression of contrived authenticity and reflexivity. Through these practices, Influencers achieve “subversive frivolity,” which I define as the under-visibilized and under-estimated generative power of an object or practice arising from its (populist) discursive framing as marginal, inconsequential, and unproductive.
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Read this if you want to be Instagram famous
Packed with the essential secrets of the hottest Instagrammers around, all you have to do is put their advice into practice. With tips covering photographic techniques, captioning, codes of conduct, kit and managing your account, soon you too will be hailed as a Instragram icon!!!
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A Tale of Four Platforms: Motivations and Uses of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat Among College Students?
The current research explores differences between Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in terms of intensity of use, time spent daily on the platform, and use motivations. The study applies the uses and gratifications (U&G) approach to contrast the four platforms. A cross-sectional survey of college students (N = 396) asked participants to indicate the intensity of using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat as well as nine different use motivations. Findings show that participants spent the most time daily on Instagram, followed by Snapchat, Facebook, and Twitter, respectively. They also indicated the highest use intensity for Snapchat and Instagram (nearly equally), followed by Facebook and Twitter, respectively. With regard to use motivations, Snapchat takes the lead in five of the nine motivations. Findings are discussed in relation to the U&G approach and uniqueness of different social media and social networking sites (SNSs).
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