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Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled as dictator of Turkmenistan from 1991 to 2006, was known for imposing his personal eccentricities upon the country. Eccentricity (also called quirkiness) is an unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual. This behavior would typically be perceived as unusual or unnecessary, without being demonstrably ...
Shitposting is a modern form of online provocation. The term itself appeared around the mid-2000s on image boards such as 4chan.Writing for Polygon, Sam Greszes compared shitposting to Dadaism's "confusing, context-free pieces that, specifically because they were so absurd, were seen as revolutionary works both artistically and politically".
Behavior change communication, or BCC, is an approach to behavior change focused on communication. It is also known as social and behavior change communication, or SBCC. The assumptions is that through communication of some kind, individuals and communities can somehow be persuaded to behave in ways that will make their lives safer and healthier.
A revision of a Wikipedia article shows a troll vandalizing an article on Wikipedia by replacing content with an insult.. In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online [1] (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life.
Social media causes people to multitask and spend more time online. Social media requires a great deal of self-referential thought. People use social media as a platform to express their opinions and show off their past and present selves. In other words, as Bailey Parnell said in her Ted Talk, we're showing off our "highlight reel" (4).
"Fear of missing out" can lead to psychological stress at the idea of missing posted content by others while offline. The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated by various researchers—predominantly psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and medical experts—especially since the mid-1990s, after the growth of the World Wide Web and rise of ...
Social media allows for mass cultural exchange and intercultural communication, despite different ways of communicating in various cultures. [226] Social media has affected the way youth communicate, by introducing new forms of language. [227] Novel acronyms save time, as illustrated by "LOL", which is the ubiquitous shortcut for "laugh out loud".
Another common view is that humans are morally conscious of their behavior in a way other animals are not, and therefore subject to higher standards. [111] Jeff McMahan proposes that denying the right to life and humane treatment to animals with equal or greater cognitive abilities than mentally disabled humans is an arbitrary and ...