Christian Montag, Konrad Błaszkiewicz, Rayna Sariyska, Bernd Lachmann, Ionut Andone, Boris Trendafilov, Mark Eibes, Alexander Markowetz,
... seems to be usage of the messaging application WhatsApp. Although WhatsApp is one of the most commonly used communication ... numbers on smartphone usage generally-and use of WhatsApp in particular, with the aim of providing a ... sample of N = 2,418 users, we recorded WhatsApp behaviour over a 4 week period.Our data show that use of WhatsApp accounted for 19.83% (= 32.11 min) of ... smartphone usage was 161.95 min. Females used WhatsApp for significantly longer periods of time than males ... younger age was associated with longer duration of WhatsApp use. While the personality trait Extraversion was positively ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2015 - BioMed Central | BMC Research Notes
Alfonso Sánchez-Moya, Olga Cruz Moya,
... to contribute to the recent academic study of WhatsApp, the instant messaging (IM) tool that enables people ... most salient discursive realisations and pragmatic uses in WhatsApp statuses, this is, the communicative output of a 139-character blank where WhatsApp users are prompted to write any message in ... 2007). The great and rather recent impact of WhatsApp as a form of communication is triggering academic ... perspective, existing studies explore some language features of WhatsApp (Calero-Vaquera, 2014), making great emphasis on its ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2015 - Elsevier BV | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Sundaram Natarajan, AkshayGopinathan Nair,
... phones among doctors would be incomplete without mentioning "WhatsApp." It is an instant messaging platform for smartphones ... and audio media messages to other users of WhatsApp. The use of WhatsApp within a closed group of colleagues working in ... be useful in swifter and efficient handovers and WhatsApp as an intradepartmental communication tool can bring about ... and perhaps a solution. However now, thanks to WhatsApp, a second opinion is literally just seconds away. ... over. Any recipient who views the photograph on WhatsApp can easily download it and use it in ...
Tópico(s): Social Media in Health Education
2015 - Medknow | Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
Filip Karpíšek, Ibrahim Baggili, Frank Breitinger,
WhatsApp is a widely adopted mobile messaging application with over 800 million users. Recently, a calling feature ... this new calling feature which included the: a) WhatsApp phone numbers, b) WhatsApp server IPs, c) WhatsApp audio codec (Opus), d) WhatsApp call duration, and e) WhatsApp's call termination. We explain the methods and ... elaborate on our findings with respect to the WhatsApp signaling messages. Furthermore, we also provide the community ... tool that helps in the visualization of the WhatsApp protocol messages.
Tópico(s): Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
2015 - Elsevier BV | Digital Investigation
Maurice Mars, Richard E. Scott,
Several spontaneous telemedicine services using WhatsApp Messenger have started in South Africa raising issues of confidentiality, data security and storage, record keeping and reporting. This study reviewed the literature on WhatsApp in clinical practice, to determine how it is ... Expert databases were searched using the search term WhatsApp and Google Scholar using the terms WhatsApp Telemedicine and WhatsApp mHealth.Thirty-two papers covering 17 disciplines were ... from India. Seventeen papers reported the use of WhatsApp Groups within departments, 14 of which were surgery ...
Tópico(s): Social Media in Health Education
2016 - IOS Press | Studies in health technology and informatics
Dhiraj Kumar Malhotra, Sonia Bansal,
Purpose Instant messaging (IM) apps like WhatsApp have given an impetus to rapid sharing of information through multimedia messages in this information age and their clear impact has been ... with the aim to understand the magnetism of WhatsApp among veterinary students. The major purpose of the study is to analyse the use of WhatsApp for academic proposes with a special emphasis on ... 90 per cent of the students were using WhatsApp for academic purposes. More UG students were using WhatsApp to chat, share images/videos and so forth ...
Tópico(s): Misinformation and Its Impacts
2017 - Emerald Publishing Limited | The Electronic Library
Naveen Kumar, Sudhansh Sharma,
WhatsApp is a popular mobile application for providing instant messaging service in smartphones. It uses Internet services ... one billion in February 2016. The effect of WhatsApp on our lives, culture, and society keeps on ... researchers to understand the implications and effect of WhatsApp on its user’s social and personal life. We investigated the usage and effect of WhatsApp in the regions of Northern India. We performed ... slow shift from all social networking sites to WhatsApp in a quick span of time. This survey ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
2017 - | Global Journal of Enterprise Information System
Introduction: WhatsApp is a free messenger application that works across multiple platform and is being widely used among undergraduate ... To assess the affectivity of social media like WhatsApp in delivering knowledge to 4th semester MBBS students ... Simultaneously, perception of learners about e-learning via WhatsApp will also be collated. Material and Methods: This ... two different T-L activities i.e., through WhatsApp and via didactic lectures. Assessment of knowledge was ... for each topic. Perception of e-learning through WhatsApp was done by feedback form. Observation and Results: ...
Tópico(s): Innovative Teaching Methods
2017 - | MVP Journal of Medical Sciences
Introduction: WhatsApp is a free messenger application that works across multiple platform and is being widely used among undergraduate ... To assess the affectivity of social media like WhatsApp in delivering knowledge to 4th semester MBBS students ... Simultaneously, perception of learners about e-learning via WhatsApp will also be collated. Material and Methods: This ... two different T-L activities i.e., through WhatsApp and via didactic lectures. Assessment of knowledge was ... for each topic. Perception of e-learning through WhatsApp was done by feedback form. Observation and Results: ...
Tópico(s): Technology-Enhanced Education Studies
2017 - | MVP Journal of Medical Sciences
Rusydi Umar, Imam Riadi, Guntur Maulana,
... the popularly used features on Android smartphone is WhatsApp. WhatsApp can be misused, such as for criminal purposes. ... fast as the development of mobile technology and WhatsApp. The latest version of smartphones and WhatsApp always comes up. Therefore, a research on the ... to handle a case involving Android smartphones and WhatsApp in particular need to be done. This research ... existing forensic tools for performing forensic analysis on WhatsApp using parameters from NIST and WhatsApp artifacts. The ...
Tópico(s): Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
2017 - Science and Information Organization | International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
Ángela del Barrio Fernández, Isabel Ruiz Fernández,
Abstract.HABITS OF USE OF THE WHATSAPP BY THE ADOLESCENTSIn this paper, we present some of the results obtained in relation to the habits of use of WhatsApp by adolescents, as part of a more extensive ... to be relevant to investigate the issue of WhatsApp and its influence on the lives of our ... some aspects related to the use of the WhatsApp by the students of ESO and First Baccalaureate ... of Cantabria.Keywords: smartphone; adolescence; habits of use; WhatsApp.Resumen.En este trabajo se presentan algunos de ...
Tópico(s): E-Learning and Knowledge Management
2017 - | International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology Revista INFAD de psicología
Hananel Rosenberg, Christa S. C. Asterhan,
... this paper, we analyze the phenomenon of “classroom WhatsApp groups”, in which a teacher and students from ... of these interactions. Background: The instant messaging application WhatsApp enables quick, interactive multimedia communication in closed groups, ... which it affects teacher-student interactions outside of WhatsApp (e.g., the social climate in class, the ... teacher communication in the popular instant messaging application WhatsApp. We report on findings from the student perspective ... on the social functions of the different classroom WhatsApp groups in secondary school students’ everyday life. Findings: ...
Tópico(s): Digital Communication and Language
2018 - Informing Science Institute | Journal of Information Technology Education Research
... Sehubungan dengan itu, kajian ini akan menggunakan aplikasi WhatsApp sebagai mewakili medium komunikasi dalam media sosial untuk mendapatkan data kata ganti nama diri. Aplikasi WhatsApp yang digunakan dalam telefon pintar dipilih sebagai sumber ... kata ganti nama diri digunakan dalam perbualan pengguna WhatsApp iaitu kata ganti nama diri pertama (penutur), kata ... kata ganti diri yang menjadi trend dalam aplikasi WhatsApp iaitu kata ganti nama diri singkatan, kata ganti ... kata ganti nama diri, media sosial, komunikasi, aplikasi WhatsApp The Trend of Malay Personal Pronouns in the ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics and Language Analysis
2018 - | Jurnal Komunikasi Malaysian Journal of Communication
Abdullah K Asiri, Metrek A Almetrek, Awad S. Alsamghan, Ossama Mustafa, Sami F Alshehri,
Background: Twitter and WhatsApp may have the potential to negatively affect quality of sleep.Aim of Study: To assess the impact of using social media (i.e., Twitter and WhatsApp) on sleep quality and to identify risk factors ... which included sociodemographic data, extent of using the WhatsApp and/or Twitter and the Pittsburgh sleep Quality ... 76.2% of students use both Twitter and WhatsApp, 21.5% use WhatsApp only, 1% use Twitter only, while 1% do ... any.Most medical students (89.8%) use Twitter/WhatsApp every day.Most medical students use Twitter/WhatsApp ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
2018 - Istanbul Medipol University | Sleep and Hypnosis
Parika Pahwa, Sarah Smith Lunsford, Nigel Livesley,
... when face-to-face meetings are not possible. WhatsApp, a mobile messaging platform, was implemented as a ... exploratory qualitative study aimed to examine experiences with WhatsApp as a communication tool among improvement team members ... communication processes and approaches and thematically analyzed. The WhatsApp transcript for the implementation period was also included in the analysis.WhatsApp was effective for disseminating information, including guidance on ... The decision of who to include in the WhatsApp group and how members engaged in the group ...
Tópico(s): Digital Mental Health Interventions
2018 - JMIR Publications | JMIR Medical Informatics
Kusumah Arif Prihatna, Rosalin Ayal, Meutia Sistarani, Yunitasari Christanti,
... aims to understand the phenomena that arise from WhatsApp users who utilize WhatsApp Status to market their products. This research focuses on the background capabilities of WhatsApp Status that allow resellers to market their products based on capabilities of WhatsApp Status as part of social media, as a ... carried out by involving selected active users of WhatsApp Status based on Snowball Sampling. This research identifies the significant capability of WhatsApp Status as the main digital marketing channel for ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2019 - Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication | International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering
Mahmut Koparal, Haluk Yener Ünsal, Hilal Alan, Fatih Üçkardeş, Belgin Gülsün,
... become very popular among oral and maxillofacial surgeons. WhatsApp is an application that enables users to send ... this study was to evaluate the efficiency of WhatsApp messaging as a mode of consultation within an ... and maxillofacial surgery team.A retrospective study on WhatsApp group conversations amongst oral and maxillofacial surgeons was performed between July 2015 and July 2016. A WhatsApp group consisting of senior and junior surgeons was ... some cases were discussed with text messages via WhatsApp, and some cases with voice and image messages ...
Tópico(s): Dental Research and COVID-19
2019 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Medical Informatics
Thomas Clavier, Julie Ramen, B. Dureuil, Benoît Veber, Jean‐Luc Hanouz, Hervé Dupont, Gilles Lebuffe, Emmanuel Besnier, Vincent Compère,
The WhatsApp smartphone app is the most widely used instant messaging app in the world. Recent studies reported the use of WhatsApp for educational purposes, but there is no prospective study comparing WhatsApp's pedagogical effectiveness to that of any other ... measure the impact of a learning program via WhatsApp on clinical reasoning in medical residents.This prospective, ... were randomized in two groups of online teaching (WhatsApp and control). The WhatsApp group benefited from daily delivery of teaching documents ...
Tópico(s): Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
2019 - JMIR Publications | JMIR mhealth and uhealth
... implementation of small group flipped instruction model through WhatsApp with small group writing activities compared with individual flipped instruction model through WhatsApp with individual writing activities. Design/methodology/approach A ... treated using small group flipped instruction model through WhatsApp with small group writing activities, and an individual ... exposed to individual group flipped instruction model through WhatsApp with individual writing activities as well. The instrument ... from the small group flipped instruction model through WhatsApp with small group writing activities at 66.17 ...
Tópico(s): Foreign Language Teaching Methods
2019 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Library Hi Tech News
Nuril Anwar, Supriyanto Supriyanto,
... instant messaging service has spread rapidly to Indonesia. WhatsApp is the most popular instant messaging application compared ... services, according to the statista website users of WhatsApp services in 2018 showed significant growth by gathering ... That number increased 14 percent compared to MAU WhatsApp in July 2017 which amounted to 1.3 ... DAU are in the range of one billion. WhatsApp handles more than 60 billion message exchanges between ... along with the wider internet penetration. Along with WhatsApp updates with various features embedded in this application ...
Tópico(s): Edcuational Technology Systems
2019 - | International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics
Anna De Benedictis, Emanuele Lettieri, Cristina Masella, Luca Gastaldi, Giordana Macchini, Camilla Santu, Daniela Tartaglini,
The increasing use of messaging applications such as WhatsApp for both social and personal purposes has determined ... A growing number of healthcare professionals have adopted WhatsApp in their daily work in order to share ... research has highlighted the advantages and disadvantages of WhatsApp usage in healthcare settings; in particular two positions ... determinants can trigger or inhibit the use of WhatsApp in a hospital setting, and which variables managers ... quality responses were received. The results show that WhatsApp is widely used in the Hospital, and that ...
Tópico(s): Impact of Technology on Adolescents
2019 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Dana Aizenkot, Gabriela Kashy‐Rosenbaum,
... the real one. Social networking sites such as WhatsApp play a major role as popular social communication platforms. More than 97% of Israeli youth use WhatsApp and are members of WhatsApp classmate groups. The growing use of WhatsApp is accompanied by increased frequency of cyberbullying, that ... been written about cyberbullying on Facebook, literature about WhatsApp and cyberbullying is scarce. Based on a large- ... provides a detailed description of cyberbullying victimization in WhatsApp classmate groups across grade level and gender among ...
Tópico(s): Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
2019 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Heydy Robles, Janitza Guerrero, Humberto Llinás Solano, Pedro Jesús Ruíz-Montero,
... to analyze the online teacher- students’ interactions using WhatsApp, an instant messaging tool, and to identify the ... from a higher education institution in Colombia. Background: WhatsApp is a trending tool that is ultimately being ... to establish students’ satisfaction towards the use of WhatsApp to complement face-to- face classes, a focus ... depth the students´ opinions and acceptance of the WhatsApp tool for academic purposes and a chat conversation ... Defendant or Judges) diversify the use of the WhatsApp tool. Whether it is to organize, coordinate meetings, ...
Tópico(s): E-Learning and Knowledge Management
2019 - Informing Science Institute | Journal of Information Technology Education Research
The use of instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp for civic and political purposes has been observed ... especially in recent years. Using empirical research on WhatsApp studies published from 2009 to 2019 as its ... reviews them to provide more robust conclusions about WhatsApp and its relationship with political and/or civic ... seeks to answer three central questions related to WhatsApp and engagement: 1) What are the motivations in using WhatsApp and how do they manifest in the use of WhatsApp as a communication tool? 2) What is the ...
Tópico(s): Child Development and Digital Technology
2020 - University of Illinois at Chicago | First Monday
Charanjit Kaur Swaran Singh, Tarsame Singh Masa Singh, Nadiah Yan Abdullah, Sasigaran Moneyam, Mohd Ridhuan Ismail, Eng Tek, Ong, Tanalachumi Karupayah, Kalaiselvi Chenderan, Manesha Kaur Rajendra Singh, Jagvinder Kaur Swaran Singh,
... ended questions were given to the teachers through WhatsApp to obtain feedback regarding their teaching strategies during ... used to analyse teachers’ feedback obtained through the WhatsApp. The findings from the study showed that the ESL teachers have resorted to Telegram, WhatsApp, Google classroom and Zoom as to engage the ... Kaur Swaran Singh. ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING THROUGH TELEGRAM, WHATSAPP, GOOGLE CLASSROOM AND SRP. 2020; 11(11): 45- ... Kaur Swaran Singh. ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING THROUGH TELEGRAM, WHATSAPP, GOOGLE CLASSROOM AND http://www.sysrevpharm.org/?mno= ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Learning in Education
2020 - Medknow | Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy
KaralikkattilT Ashique, Feroze Kaliyadan,
... a patient-initiated model (through mobile applications like WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Duo. etc.) These media have the ... a computer screenFigure 2: (a) Screenshot of a WhatsApp communication for online consultations with poor quality images ( ... of the lesionFigure 3: (a) Screenshot of a WhatsApp communication for online consultations with good quality image ( ... clinician's end. People who take consults on WhatsApp tend to repeatedly communicate later for even unrelated ... even alternative medications can be suggested at ease WhatsApp business account is one app that can be ...
Tópico(s): Cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders research
2020 - Medknow | Indian Dermatology Online Journal
Barbara Singer, Caitlin M. Walsh, Lucky Gondwe, Katie Reynolds, Emily Lawrence, Alinafe Kasiya,
... increased privacy for adolescents. With the use of WhatsApp and other smartphone-based messaging applications as platforms ... daily lives. This article describes the use of WhatsApp as a data collection methodology with adolescents in Malawi. In June 2018, VillageReach used WhatsApp to conduct focus group discussions (FGD) to collect qualitative data on contraceptive use from Malawian youth. WhatsApp FGD participants were male and female adolescents, aged ... aged 22-25, were trained and facilitated fifteen WhatsApp FGDs, as in-person (12) and remote (3) ...
Tópico(s): ICT in Developing Communities
2020 - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Gates Open Research
Bangisisi Zamuxolo Mathews Nyembe, Grant Royd Howard,
It has been reported that WhatsApp, a social media application, had approximately 1.6 billion active users globally as of July 2019, almost one-fifth of the total world's population. Thus, research about WhatsApp's influence in general and especially its influence ... and significant. While there was much research involving WhatsApp and learning, it was not conclusive about the effects of WhatsApp on student learning. Specifically, research focusing on collaborative learning using WhatsApp was lacking, including research instruments for measuring collaboration ...
Tópico(s): Impact of Technology on Adolescents
2020 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Bret A. Hughes, Joseph Stallard, Chris West,
... Hospitals are now using the instant messaging service WhatsAppⓇ to deliver case based discussion to trainees in ... teaching via the free encrypted cross platform service WhatsAppⓇ (Figure 1).1WhatsApp. About whatsApp. 2020. https://www.whatsapp.com/about/[Accessibility verified May 13, 2020]Google ... or place. Trainees have been invited to a WhatsAppⓇ group where trainers are able to facilitate case ... share patient details or any identifiable data despite WhatsApp having end-to-end encryption. We are also ...
Tópico(s): Empathy and Medical Education
2020 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
WhatsApp as many other Messaging Apps or "Messengers" enables messaging and exchanging documents and/or multimedia element ( ... through chat like tools; these last characteristics makes WhatsApp useful for the remote-image exchanging in mHealth ... the possibility to create groups, the so called WhatsApp Groups and (II) the possibility of this App ... personal computer through the version for pc named WhatsApp Web; these potentialities allow both the creation of ... Health. Scholars have recently shown the usefulness of WhatsApp in several mHealth applications. Recent important studies are ...
Tópico(s): Digital Mental Health Interventions
2020 - AME Publishing Company | mHealth