{"title":"Intrinsic social media literacy: a public relations strategy addressing problematic social media use among teenagers globally.","authors":"Funom Theophilus Makama, Stephanie Attah James, Esther Funom Makama","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2025.2518437","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23311886.2025.2518437","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On average, 6 hours 58 minutes are spent on social media everyday by each user, and 98% of young people from ages 15 to 24 use the internet of which 96% are social media users. If used inappropriately, a social media user is at risk of poor mental health and behavioural problems. Also, Problematic social media users are vulnerable to several side effects and are more exposed to social media threats than any other user. Therefore, this study attempts to develop a preventive strategy by firstly, analysing the various approaches that address problematic social media use such as the legal, education and technology strategies. By assessing their strengths and weaknesses, the most effective approach- Social Media Literacy was identified. The second objective of this study is to address the weaknesses of all the approaches analysed, and by using public relations mechanisms, social media literacy was enhanced into a new approach called the Intrinsic Social Media Literacy, ISML. This new approach is not developed to stop other preventive approaches from addressing this issue. It is developed as the main approach in the prevention, and to some degree, the solving of problematic social media use among the young generation globally.</p>","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":"2518437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12312747/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144774831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arif Zainudin, Dede Sri K, Utang Suwaryo, Neneng Yani Yuningsih
{"title":"Trends in social inclusion and its impact on public services: Research by CiteSpace","authors":"Arif Zainudin, Dede Sri K, Utang Suwaryo, Neneng Yani Yuningsih","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2024.2392295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2392295","url":null,"abstract":"Social inclusion has a direct impact on communities and public service systems. There-fore, research on social inclusive has received greater attention from contemporary scholars. At present, there...","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142263450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protracted refugee situations and the shrinking durable solutions: could there be a ray of hope in local solutions?","authors":"Samuel Opono, Frank Ahimbisibwe","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2024.2395346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2395346","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomenon of protracted refugee situations and the conditions of refugees living in the same situation have renewed debates on durable refugee solutions. Despite the international provision fo...","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthems of oppressed voices: a postcolonial deliberation of the South African apartheid phrase dubul’ibhunu (kill the Boer or shoot the Boer)","authors":"Mlamli Diko","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2024.2395662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2395662","url":null,"abstract":"Given the reality that South African colonialism and apartheid officially ended in 1994, there is a continued visibility of racial and controversial words, phrases, and sentences that prominently s...","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People power: a content analysis of #VAWG tweets in India","authors":"Jayanthi Iyengar, Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2024.2395100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2395100","url":null,"abstract":"Twitter has been a valuable space for increasing public awareness and participation in discourses on sexual violence, including Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). One common thread running th...","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142263451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unraveling the conceptual ambiguity of digital human resource management: a state-of-the-art review","authors":"Sumbol Fiaz, Muhammad Azeem Qureshi","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2024.2395101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2395101","url":null,"abstract":"Digitalization is the fundamental aspect of the technological revolution that has introduced organizations to disruptive change. Not only external, but digitalization has also transformed all the i...","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"276 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing the evolution of the threat al-Shabaab poses to Kenya post-Westgate attack period","authors":"Gábor Sinkó, János Besenyő","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2024.2395656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2395656","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade, al-Shabaab has carried out at least thirty terrorist attacks in Kenya, killing hundreds of people and causing damage to public and private infrastructure. The main objective of ...","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nahariah Jaffar, Sellywati Mohd Faizal, Zarehan Selamat, Izyan Syazana Awaludin, Noor Adwa Sulaiman
{"title":"Financial literacy and financial well-being of low-income women in Malaysia: a capability view","authors":"Nahariah Jaffar, Sellywati Mohd Faizal, Zarehan Selamat, Izyan Syazana Awaludin, Noor Adwa Sulaiman","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2024.2388826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2388826","url":null,"abstract":"The low-income group is viewed as a vulnerable segment of the society, with many difficulties in various aspects of life, including finances. While the government is concerned with the financial we...","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Firm-specific and institutional factors as export performance catalysts: Insights from a developing economy","authors":"Nesredin Temam Hassen, Mesfin Lema, Gemechu Nemera","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2024.2392294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2392294","url":null,"abstract":"This study advances a resource-based theory and institutional based view integrative theoretical model which contends that the export performance of firms will depend upon both firm-specific factor...","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142263452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iskandar Syahputera, Sastri Sunarti, Tugas Tri Wahyono, Zulkarnain Yani, Yustina Hastrini Nurwanti, Lina Herlinawati, Ninawati Syahrul, Musfeptial Musfeptial
{"title":"The role of “Hadih Maja” as an Acehnese oral tradition in supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 agendas: an eco-criticism analysis","authors":"Iskandar Syahputera, Sastri Sunarti, Tugas Tri Wahyono, Zulkarnain Yani, Yustina Hastrini Nurwanti, Lina Herlinawati, Ninawati Syahrul, Musfeptial Musfeptial","doi":"10.1080/23311886.2024.2388330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2388330","url":null,"abstract":"Issues on climate change, global warming, renewable energy, food security, forest conservation, sustainable marine life resources, and protecting wildlife are becoming central issues for the world ...","PeriodicalId":10511,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142214216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}