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undergraduate students’ academic performances and their social interpersonal skills in the Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University. Design/methodology/approach: 64 samples were collected from full-time undergraduate students studying in Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University from different colleges including Community college, College of Business Administration, College of Education, College of Engineering and College of Pharmacy. The descriptive statistics analysis was used to analyze the demographic data while inferential statistics were used in testing the research hypotheses. The results obtained from the analyses were used to interpret the outcomes. Findings: The empirical results reveal that the students enjoy meeting new friends online using social media rather than meeting in person and for this reason they spend a lot of time – addicted. It is also confirmed that the bad comments are passed easily through social media affecting other's sentiments and most of them strongl...

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- Psychology, Information Technology, Communication, Addiction
- by Firdouse R A H M A N Khan
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- Information Technology, Communication, Addiction, Social Media
- by Panagiotis Metaxas
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- Information Retrieval, Social Networks, Propaganda, Web search

This research aims to investigate the impact of specific factors on user's travel purchase intention and attitude in Social Media. Data collected from Social Media users to measure the relationship between the above factors of Social Media and user attitude on travel purchase intention with the Structural Equation Model. The primary purpose of the research is to explore whether the following Social Media factors are positively related to user attitude and travel purchase intention. The factors are source credibility, information reliability, user pleasure, and perceived value in travel services information. The findings of the research showed that there is a positive relationship between pleasure, attitude, and travel purchase intention, a positive relationship between reliability and customer attitude, and a positive relationship between perceived value and travel purchase intention. We also found that there is no relationship among credibility, user attitude, and travel purchase intention and an additional factor concerning atmospherics, positively affecting the perceived value and user pleasure. Finally, we found that customer attitude plays a vital role in mediating the relationship between credibility, pleasure, reliability, value, and travelers' purchase intention.

- by Syed Nasrullah
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- Information Technology, Communication, Addiction, Social Media

The article presents information reliability criteria to identify misinformation and its representations (fake news, post truth, alternative facts and deepfake) in the current scenario, characterized by the digital environment. It also contextualizes the concepts of critical reading and critical thinking, essential in the conceptual formulation of informational reliability. From there, the paper elaborates its criteria in order to verify the reliability of information disseminated in the web. For this purpose, it uses the criteria to evaluate information sources developed by Tomaél, Alcará and Silva (2008), the critical analysis of arguments by Carraher (1983), and Floridi’s (2011, 2010) concept of informativeness and also his informational concept map. The article concludes that these criteria help to combat misinformation, and stimulate critical reading and thinking processes in the individual, even though they are not a final solution for this purpose.

- by Leonardo Ripoll
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- Critical Thinking, Disinformation, Misinformation, Information Reliability

Innovation in information and communication technology has a great potential to create large impact on modern healthcare. However, for the new technologies to be adopted, the innovations have to be meaningful and timely, taking into account user needs and addressing societal and ethical concerns. In this paper, we focus on ICT innovations related to home healthcare domain, in which patient safety and security, but also trust and privacy are of utmost im-portance. To ensure the adoption of new healthcare services, the new innovative technologies need to be complemented with new methods that can help patients to establish trust in healthcare service providers in terms of privacy, reliability, integrity of the data chain and techniques that help service providers to assess the reliability of information and data contributed by patients. This paper sketches various lines of research for the development of trusted healthcare ser-vices namely, patient compliance, reliability of information in healthcare, and user-friendly access control.

- by Sokratis Vavilis and +1
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- Computer Security And Reliability, Information Security, IT in healthcare, ICT in Health

21st-century society is facing a crisis of truth. Digital media lends itself to this by allowing the dissemination of almost unlimited quantities of unverified content. This threatens the development of accurate thinking along with the decision-making process in critical situations. Learning how to evaluate online information is thus vital in such scenarios. Much has been done in this regard, including explanations of criteria for evaluating information. However, some criteria may require explicitness. Critical thinking (CT) dispositions also need to be addressed more emphatically in the online content evaluation process. This study attempted to address both aspects theoretically in the context of controversial issues on the Web. Evaluating controversial content requires rigorous standards beyond the widely agreed criteria involving authorship, meaning criteria related to content production (systematicity) and its validation or corroboration (scrutiny). Consequently, four evaluation criteria were proposed, namely, author position, author motivation, systematicity, and independent scrutiny, which require the identification and practice of specific evaluation skills, basic knowledge, and fundamentally, key CT dispositions. Both the skills and dispositions are discussed around a general framework introduced in this study with educational implications for the evaluation of controversial content online and beyond.

- by Luis Fernando Santos Meneses
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- Digital Media, Critical Thinking, Argumentation, Social Media