Wayne Buente
Biographic Data
| ID | 4154506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayne Buente |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayne |
| FAMILY NAME | Buente |
| SIGNATURE | BUENTE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2468-7308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring #Zyn-Related Video Content Posted by Zynfluencers on TikTok
OBJECTIVES: Oral nicotine pouches such as Zyn have gained popularity, with marketing increasingly leveraging social media influencers. This study aimed to analyze the content and engagement metrics of TikTok videos tagged with #Zyn across different influencer types. METHODS: A standardized inductive coding approach was used to analyze 130 TikTok videos tagged #Zyn, collected on February 16, 2024. Videos were categorized by macro (100,000-1 M foll…
Indigenous Community Networking in Hawai’i
Shaping digital inclusion policy and practice to meet community-defined goals requires more than access to digital devices and connectivity; it must also enable their effective design and use in situated local settings. For the Nation of Hawai’i, a Kānaka Maoli (Hawai’ian) sovereignty organization with a land base in Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo on the island of Oahu, these activities are closely associated with broader goals of Nation-building and sove…
Social media, peer norms, and betel nut susceptibility and use
Betel (areca) nut is an addictive psychoactive substance considered to be carcinogenic. Yet not much is known about factors that may be promoting betel nut use. To fill this void, the present study examines the roles of exposure to betel nut-related posts on social media and peer norms regarding betel nut use in explaining betel nut susceptibility and use among adolescents. We conducted a representative survey of early adolescents ( N = 673) atte…
Tradition Gone Mobile
Background: As a psychoactive substance that spans borders and cultures, researchers estimate that 600 million people use the areca nut. Despite its historical and geographical significance, betel nut use has received far less research attention than other stimulants such as tobacco, coffee or tea. Scholars have observed that social media platforms have significant effects on the promotion and use of addictive substances. Objectives: Our study in…
Adolescent betel nut use in Guam
Betel (areca) nut is an addictive substance chewed with or without tobacco widely in Asia and the Pacific, including the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands (USPI). Betel nut use has been found to cause oral cancer. Research suggests that most betel nut use initiation occurs in adolescence. However, very little is currently known about the etiology of adolescent betel nut use. The present study reports findings of a formative, qualitative research co…
Social media e-cigarette exposure and e-cigarette expectancies and use among young adults
Representation of indigenous cultures
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the representation of Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) Hula Dance in traditional systems of representation and organization. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory study analyzes the controlled and natural language vocabularies employed for the representation and organization of Hawaiian culture, in particular Hawaiian hula. The most widely accepted and used systems were examined: classification system…
Incidental Effects of Automated Retweeting
The role of automated or semiautomated social media accounts, commonly known as “bots,” in social and political processes has gained significant scholarly attention. The current body of research discusses how bots can be designed to achieve specific purposes as well as instances of unexpected negative outcomes of such use. We suggest that the interplay between social media affordances and user practices can result in incidental effects from autom…
Attachment to Facebook and the civic lives of minority college students in the United States
A survey of minority college students attending an urban university in the U.S. Midwest was conducted to examine the links between emotional attachment to Facebook and levels along key civic indicators. Results suggested that minority college students’ emotional attachment to Facebook is positively associated with their off-line and online political participation, social trust, and neighborliness, but not with their off-line and online civic enga…
Digital Citizenship or Inequality? Linking Internet Use and Education to Electoral Engagement in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign
This study examines the relationship among digital citizenship, digital inequality, education, and electoral engagement in the unprecedented 2008 U.S. presidential election. The 2008 presidential election was unique providing an African American candidate, a severe financial crisis, and an unusually unpopular sitting president. In this regard, the presidential election provides an unparalleled political moment to examine the impact of digital cit…
Relating digital citizenship to informed citizenship online in the 2008 U.S. presidential election
This study examines the relationship between the concept of the digital and informed online citizen. To begin, the paper provides an overview of digital and informed citizenship. Next, the study proposes a problematic relationship between digital and informed citizenship by emphasizing barriers to informed citizenship online. Scholars have noted the influence of socioeconomic factors to explain differential uses of the Internet especially for pol…
Interacting with Broadband Society
Indigenous Community Networking in Hawai’i
Shaping digital inclusion policy and practice to meet community-defined goals requires more than access to digital devices and connectivity; it must also enable their effective design and use in situated local settings. For the Nation of Hawai’i, a Kānaka Maoli (Hawai’ian) sovereignty organization with a land base in Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo on the island of Oahu, these activities are closely associated with broader goals of Nation-building and sove…
Relating digital citizenship to informed citizenship online in the 2008 U.S. presidential election
This study examines the relationship between the concept of the digital and informed online citizen. To begin, the paper provides an overview of digital and informed citizenship. Next, the study proposes a problematic relationship between digital and informed citizenship by emphasizing barriers to informed citizenship online. Scholars have noted the influence of socioeconomic factors to explain differential uses of the Internet especially for pol…
Interacting with Broadband Society
Digital Citizenship or Inequality? Linking Internet Use and Education to Electoral Engagement in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign
This study examines the relationship among digital citizenship, digital inequality, education, and electoral engagement in the unprecedented 2008 U.S. presidential election. The 2008 presidential election was unique providing an African American candidate, a severe financial crisis, and an unusually unpopular sitting president. In this regard, the presidential election provides an unparalleled political moment to examine the impact of digital cit…
Relating digital citizenship to informed citizenship online in the 2008 U.S. presidential election
This study examines the relationship between the concept of the digital and informed online citizen. To begin, the paper provides an overview of digital and informed citizenship. Next, the study proposes a problematic relationship between digital and informed citizenship by emphasizing barriers to informed citizenship online. Scholars have noted the influence of socioeconomic factors to explain differential uses of the Internet especially for pol…
Attachment to Facebook and the civic lives of minority college students in the United States
A survey of minority college students attending an urban university in the U.S. Midwest was conducted to examine the links between emotional attachment to Facebook and levels along key civic indicators. Results suggested that minority college students’ emotional attachment to Facebook is positively associated with their off-line and online political participation, social trust, and neighborliness, but not with their off-line and online civic enga…
Representation of indigenous cultures
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the representation of Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) Hula Dance in traditional systems of representation and organization. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory study analyzes the controlled and natural language vocabularies employed for the representation and organization of Hawaiian culture, in particular Hawaiian hula. The most widely accepted and used systems were examined: classification system…
Incidental Effects of Automated Retweeting
The role of automated or semiautomated social media accounts, commonly known as “bots,” in social and political processes has gained significant scholarly attention. The current body of research discusses how bots can be designed to achieve specific purposes as well as instances of unexpected negative outcomes of such use. We suggest that the interplay between social media affordances and user practices can result in incidental effects from autom…
Social media e-cigarette exposure and e-cigarette expectancies and use among young adults
Adolescent betel nut use in Guam
Betel (areca) nut is an addictive substance chewed with or without tobacco widely in Asia and the Pacific, including the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands (USPI). Betel nut use has been found to cause oral cancer. Research suggests that most betel nut use initiation occurs in adolescence. However, very little is currently known about the etiology of adolescent betel nut use. The present study reports findings of a formative, qualitative research co…
Tradition Gone Mobile
Background: As a psychoactive substance that spans borders and cultures, researchers estimate that 600 million people use the areca nut. Despite its historical and geographical significance, betel nut use has received far less research attention than other stimulants such as tobacco, coffee or tea. Scholars have observed that social media platforms have significant effects on the promotion and use of addictive substances. Objectives: Our study in…
Social media, peer norms, and betel nut susceptibility and use
Betel (areca) nut is an addictive psychoactive substance considered to be carcinogenic. Yet not much is known about factors that may be promoting betel nut use. To fill this void, the present study examines the roles of exposure to betel nut-related posts on social media and peer norms regarding betel nut use in explaining betel nut susceptibility and use among adolescents. We conducted a representative survey of early adolescents ( N = 673) atte…
Indigenous Community Networking in Hawai’i
Shaping digital inclusion policy and practice to meet community-defined goals requires more than access to digital devices and connectivity; it must also enable their effective design and use in situated local settings. For the Nation of Hawai’i, a Kānaka Maoli (Hawai’ian) sovereignty organization with a land base in Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo on the island of Oahu, these activities are closely associated with broader goals of Nation-building and sove…
Exploring #Zyn-Related Video Content Posted by Zynfluencers on TikTok
OBJECTIVES: Oral nicotine pouches such as Zyn have gained popularity, with marketing increasingly leveraging social media influencers. This study aimed to analyze the content and engagement metrics of TikTok videos tagged with #Zyn across different influencer types. METHODS: A standardized inductive coding approach was used to analyze 130 TikTok videos tagged #Zyn, collected on February 16, 2024. Videos were categorized by macro (100,000-1 M foll…
Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social media (5 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works)