Writing Sample X

Online social networking (OSN) sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are among the most popular sites around the World. In the case of Mexico, these sites are considered to be in the top. Users have different tools for reading and sharing information with his friends and/or contacts and for searching for new users that might have common interests. These sites have changed the way people get connected to each other on the web. The popularity of these sites is represented on its registered users: as today Facebook has about 500 million, and Twitter about 175 million. As these numbers grow, we believe that there is a great opportunity to study critical characteristics of online social network in order to identify the key success factors based on endusers' perception. Identifying such factors would provide important information for improving current information systems by including social software characteristics as well as to design new high impact applications for online social networks. This paper presents the results obtained through a focus group study to identify the most important issues and perceptions about OSN. Results give us an idea where and what we should be doing for future research in the subject.

Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2017

Social networking site (SNS) use decisions have led to major economic and social transformations worldwide. While many organizations seek to use SNSs from a strategic perspective to reach their customer, it is important to understand what makes SNSs successful in order to use them for competitive purposes. The current research evaluates the influence of the social capital theory on SNS success measures. A model was developed and empirically tested using two data samples to ensure valid and reliable results for success of SNSs. The results display the importance of social capital in SNS success followed by practitioner and academic implications.

International Journal of Marketing and Business Communication, 2018

The purpose is to analyse the factors that affect social media usage of undergraduate students. In order to achieve the objectives, 115 undergraduate students were considered using convenience sampling technique. The data was collected using structured questionnaire based on 5 point Likert scale. The statistical analysis techniques namely, descriptive statistics and exploratory factor analysis were applied. The paper considers the use of top social networking sites with maximum users on Facebook. The study concludes that source of information is the most important factor followed by relationship and skill development factor that affects the use of social media usage among the undergraduate students. The study suggests that social media and networking sites should become transparent in sharing relevant information, and provide valuable content to enhance the users' learning and skill development. The results may lack generalizability due to the use of convenience sampling technique. Therefore, it is suggested for upcoming researchers to test the proposed suggestions further.

International Journal of E-Business Research, 2020

Social networking sites (SNSs) constitute a crucial topic of debate concerning the effect on business and society. The reasons for use and the time people spend on them have also been a topic that has been highly researched and discussed as several social, psychological, educational, and ethical issues arise due to the propagation of social media and SNSs in all demographic groups, and especially in younger people and students. This article aims to investigate the factors that affect the level of daily usage of SNSs by university students. Four major factors that affect SNSs usage were identified: debating, socializing, expression, and entertainment seeking. The results show that two of them, namely debating and entertainment seeking, have a significant effect on the level of SNSs daily usage providing useful insight into the ways that university students utilize SNSs.

The results indicate that the utilitarian quality of tweets and tweet providers' intentions were significantly related to perceived trust, whereas the hedonic quality of tweets and tweet providers' reputation were positively related to user satisfaction. Perceived trust and user satisfaction were significantly related to continued use intentions.

B&R Samizdat Express, 1997

This pioneering book, first published in 1997, details the process to empower businesses and individuals to build websites based on common interests and social interaction. It provides insights that are as relevant now as they were when the book was written.

International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2016

The features of popular social networking sites (SNSs) have been evolving rapidly. In this regard, there arise interesting questions that warrant investigations like, does user perception of SNSs get affected due to feature evolution of the SNSs? What features of the SNSs really matter to the users? Are features of SNSs important reasons for usage of these sites? In order to investigate these questions, the authors conducted an analytical study of SNSs usage in India. The study was undertaken with three stage qualitative process of detailed literature review, expert opinion elicitation followed by in-depth focus group discussions with 12 select panel of SNSs users. The study corroborates existing literature on SNS usage context in terms of usage purpose, usage impact due to user profile and age-group, user presence on different SNS platforms, and also shows some new findings on user perceptions on feature evolutions.

2018

Bu makale, Çin’in ekonomik ve siyasi yükselişi çerçevesinde, kapitalizmin aldığı yeni biçimler üzerine bir teorik tartışma sunmaktadır. Makale, Çin’in ve kapitalizmin uzun tarihsel bir dönem perspektifinden analizini temel alarak, üretim biçimi, uluslararası ticaret, devlet ve sermaye ilişkileri açısından, Çin’in yükselişinin hem Çin’de hem de dünya kapitalizminde yarattığı değişiklikleri irdeleyen bir tartışma sunmaya çalışmaktadır. Bu yapılırken, tarihsel sosyoloji alanında bu konu ile ilgili en önemli güncel tartışmaları sunan Giovanni Arrighi, Joel Andreas ve Richard Walker’in eserlerinden ve bu üçlü arasındaki polemiklerden faydalanılmıştır. This article presents a theoretical discussion about the new forms of capitalism in the context of the economic and political rise of China. The article raises a discussion on the changes that the rise of China has instigated in both China and the world capitalism. This is considered in the context of mode of production, international trade, state and capital, by analysing China and capitalism from the perspective of long historical periods. In doing this, the article benefits from the work of and polemics between Giovanni Arrighi, Joel Andreas ve Richard Walker, who provided very important contemporary debates on this issue in the field of historical sociology.