July 2018

Social media as a means to overcome stress and depression among women

Depression constitutes a serious challenge in personal and public health. Tens of millions of people each year suffer from depression and only a fraction receives treatment (de Choudhury, 2013). Stress and depression drains one of the feel-good factors essential to sustain the energy that gives the impetuous to hope and move forward. Depression in women is made more complex because of factors such as reproductive...

Author(s): V. R. Revathy, I. A. Aram and V. S. Sharmila  

July 2018

Twitter and sports journalism in Germany: Application and networks during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

Professions in the communication realm are affected by Twitter’s rapidity, agenda setting, and myriad utilization possibilities. This study addresses potentials of Twitter for journalists in the sport context and assessed journalists’ Twitter activity, as well as journalists’ Twitter networks and their change in the course of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The sample was composed of the accounts of 30...

Author(s): Christoph G. Grimmer and Thomas Horky