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Social Network
A social network refers to a structure of social relationships and interactions among individuals, groups, or organizations. These relationships are characterized by connections, ties, or links that facilitate communication, exchange, and interaction within a network of interconnected nodes. Social networks can vary in size, complexity, and purpose, encompassing a wide range of interpersonal, professional, and community-based connections.
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Social Movement
A social movement is a collective, organized effort by individuals or groups to bring about social, political, economic, or cultural change. These movements typically mobilize around specific issues, grievances, or ideals, aiming to challenge existing power structures, advocate for reforms, or promote alternative visions of society. Social movements employ a variety of tactics, including protests, demonstrations, advocacy campaigns, and grassroots organizing, to raise awareness, mobilize support, and effectuate social transformation.
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Social Mobility
Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals or groups within a social hierarchy, typically involving changes in socioeconomic status, occupational attainment, or educational attainment across generations or within a single lifetime. It encompasses upward mobility, where individuals ascend to higher social positions, as well as downward mobility, where individuals experience a decline in social status. Social mobility reflects the fluidity and dynamism of social structures, influenced by factors such as meritocracy, education, economic opportunity, and social policies.
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Social Media Usage to Facilitate Knowledge Creation
Social media usage is a direct result of Internet connectivity and is gaining increased prominence in business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and consumer-to-business (C2B) relationship building, which is allowing marketers to devise and implement digital marketing strategies that are perceived as enhancing a customer’s well-being. Through the process of utilizing social media (SM) to share information with consumers, marketers are affording themselves with the concept of value co-creation and ensuring that the development of knowledge is given priority. 
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Social Media Technology on Higher Education
The COVID-19 pandemic led universities to transform the traditional teaching methodologies into distance education. Therefore, social media has become progressively prominent as teaching and learning resources in universities. Social media consists of several activities such as interacting with friends, posting images and videos, engaging in conversation on public topics, watching the news, playing games, introducing real-time web chat instant messages, elements that allow networking, communication, and collaboration. Defining social media is a challenging task since it is an area that is continuously changed.
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Social Media Marketing and Bank Loyalty of Customers
E-marketing has impacted customers’ bank loyalty regarding its online services, and the role of social media marketing has remained very important to enhancing customer-based loyalty. 
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Social Media in Speaking Skills
The ubiquitous nature of social media (SM) makes it a very essential tool to use in the world of education, especially with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic which has led to a paradigm shift in the approaches used in the teaching and learning of English language skills. Findings reveal that there are improvements in speaking skills, as well as confidence to speak and a decline in speaking anxiety. Teachers and educators can now make use of the various social media platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and others to provide learners with more practice that is not only restricted to the classroom but has moved beyond it.
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Social Media in Perceived Levels of National Security
The increase in the use of social media as a 21st century communication tool is in parallel increasing the threat to national security globally. Security is, according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory, a fundamental need of human life and the level to which this is experienced by members of a community is reflected in the confidence and security of the respective society. As governance bodies across the world seek to establish sustainable solutions to the provision of national security and disaster management for their communities, they are challenged in addressing the conundrum of managing the influence of social media.
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Social Media and the Arab Spring
The role of social media in the Arab Spring, a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests in the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012, remains a highly debated subject. Uprisings occurred both in states with very high levels of Internet usage (such as Bahrain, with 88% of its population online in 2011) and in states with some of the lowest levels of Internet penetration (such as Yemen and Libya).
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Social Media and Artificial Intelligence
Prior to and during the pandemic, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook emerged as dynamic online spaces for diverse communities facilitating engagement and learning. As with all technology, social media is also riddled with complex issues and unfortunately, is increasingly considered unsafe. The emergence and popularity of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Lensa AI, and Canva Magic Write present new challenges and opportunities and cannot be avoided by the educational communities.
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