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Many families have begun to make use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and social media, incorporating their functionalities in their daily lives in order to keep in touch with each other. An exploratory investigation on how technology and social media are used to support intergenerational family communication was carried out, in order to understand, not only the technologies and...
Social media have assumed a major part in people's daily life, nowadays we are all web content producers, thus situations that are uncomfortable and stressful can be shared a lot easier than a few years ago. This new interaction in social media brings daily consequences for business. Situations that were contained, now can assume a large scale and damage institutions' image and reputation. Recently...
The use of internet based communication has promising applications for healthcare. Information sourced from social media has the potential to transform medical research and the construction of Public health policies. Wireless technologies give healthcare providers the opportunity to monitor patients in the community reducing costly hospital stays and enabling earlier disease intervention. Whilst increased...
Today social media has revolutionized how to do communication, organizations and tourism destinations should be aware about that and they try to manage as best as possible their presence in social networks to make profitable the benefits that it can report them. In this sense, we have tried to combine two elements, firstly the Camino de Santiago, a tourism product in Galicia (Spain), and secondly,...
Social media hold abundant opportunities for service providers to interact with their clients. Whereas social media as sales channels have been studied extensively in the Marketing literature, much less is known about the ways in which public sector organisations capitalize on this potential. The purpose of this study is to explore how local governments utilize online social networks as a means for...
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