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Record W4415861867 · doi:10.1145/3757232.3757239

Bridging Distances, Navigating Dilemmas: Social Media’s Role for Sub-Saharan African Students in Morocco

2025· article· W4415861867 on OpenAlexaff
Christianah Titilope Oyewale, Rafiat Mojisola Bamimore Akodu, Tochukwu Ikwunne, Houda Elmimouni

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInternational Student and Expatriate Challenges
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBridging (networking)Social mediaAdaptation (eye)Cultural diversityFocus groupQualitative researchInformation sharing

Abstract

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This study investigates how Sub-Saharan African international students in Morocco use social media to navigate cultural adaptation by conducting surveys with 64 students and interviews with 12 participants. Our findings show that students strategically manage their online identities for networking while employing selective sharing and self-censorship to balance self-expression with privacy concerns. These results highlight the need for social media platforms to offer customizable privacy settings and culturally sensitive features to better support the well-being and integration of international students.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0140.006
Scholarly communication0.0090.005
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.352
Teacher spread0.326 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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