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Trends and Research Issues of Exploring the Role of Social Media in Adolescents from 2010 to 2018

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Social media is becoming a vital part of adolescents in these years. More and more studies are doing research bases on social media. The researcher based on 30 journal papers to analyze the trends in social media in recent years. The researcher used analytical method to analyze 30 papers, including resources, data distribution and coding schemes. The results were divided into 5 categories, including types of social media, the first purpose of using, using times, research method and different dimensions. In the future, social media will still exist in adolescents’ life. Therefore, the study of social media will still appear.

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Liu, I.C., Wey, S.C. (2020). Trends and Research Issues of Exploring the Role of Social Media in Adolescents from 2010 to 2018. In: Shen, J., Chang, YC., Su, YS., Ogata, H. (eds) Cognitive Cities. IC3 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1227. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6113-9_73

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