<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Social media today represent a global community of different nationalities - the size of China in terms of population, and social networking sites are online venues where users can create and post content. Social networks have also become one of the most popular ways for people to socialize, connect with friends and family, purchase items and gather relevant information about current and political topics and views. The most popular and biggest social network is Facebook and its influence in every pore of our society is evident, e.g. potential misuse of its user’s data in different purpose including manipulation in political purposes. This paper will also cover the findings of a survey conducted in Croatia and Serbia about the perception of social media and social networks as a source of gathering relevant information.</p></abstract>

Social media today represent a global community of different nationalities - the size of China in terms of population, and social networking sites are online venues where users can create and post content. Social networks have also become one of the most popular ways for people to socialize, connect with friends and family, purchase items and gather relevant information about current and political topics and views. The most popular and biggest social network is Facebook and its influence in every pore of our society is evident, e.g. potential misuse of its user’s data in different purpose including manipulation in political purposes. This paper will also cover the findings of a survey conducted in Croatia and Serbia about the perception of social media and social networks as a source of gathering relevant information.

Perception of Social Media as a Source of Relevant Information

Tihomir Vranešević is at Faculty of Economics and Business

Nenad Perić is at Metropolitan University

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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Social media today represent a global community of different nationalities - the size of China in terms of population, and social networking sites are online...

Perception of Social Media as a Source of Relevant Information

Data publikacji: 13 cze 2019

Zakres stron: 133 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/zireb-2019-0016

Słowa kluczowe
Social media, social network, perception, Croatia, Serbia

© 2019 Tihomir Vranešević et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Perception of Social Media as a Source of Relevant Information

Data publikacji: 13 cze 2019

Zakres stron: 133 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/zireb-2019-0016

Słowa kluczoweSocial media, social network, perception, Croatia, Serbia

© 2019 Tihomir Vranešević et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
Social media, social network, perception, Croatia, Serbia