The Imagined Audience on Social Network Sites
When people construct and share posts on social network sites like Facebook and Twitter, whom do they imagine as their audience? How do users describe this imagined audience ?
Eden Litt, Eszter Hargittai
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Transforming the 2019-2020 Protest Agenda on Social Network Sites
Social network sites have taken a strong position in the space of socio-political communication. In the modern world, the necessity to analyze events occurring in the virtual space for a relevant reaction to events occurring in reality, is generally ...
Alexey Belyakov +4 more
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Social Capital on Social Networking Sites: A Social Network Perspective [PDF]
Although social capital has been researched from many approaches and attempts have been made to measure it online, the literature lacks an operational description that would allow its measurement criteria to be established from a social network perspective.
Natalia Sánchez-Arrieta +3 more
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In search of healthy sexuality: the gap between what youth want and what teachers think they need
The fact that youth between the ages of 15 and 24 are most vulnerable to contract HIV (UNAIDS, 2011) is a clear indication that adults are failing to provide them with the necessary skills and information to make informed decisions about healthy ...
Christa Beyers
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Academics’ online connections: Characterising the structure of personal networks on academic social networking sites and Twitter [PDF]
Academic social networking sites (SNS), such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, seek to bring the benefits of online social networking to academics' professional lives.
Jordan, Katy
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Expresiones de racismo y discriminación en grupos autistas en Facebook
Based on a qualitative approach and the use of ethnographic techniques such as the semi-structured interview and participant observation, an analysis is presented of how diverse racist and discriminatory expressions take place within a non-representative
Gabriel Pérez Salazar +1 more
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Online Child Sex Solicitation: Exploring the Feasibility of a Research 'Sting' [PDF]
A small scale test of the integrity of Internet Web 2.0 social network sites was undertaken over several weeks in 2007. The fictional identities of four female underage children where posted on three network sites and later introduced to relay chat ...
Broadhurst, Roderic, Jayawardena, Kasun
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Segmentation of Older Adults in the Acceptance of Social Networking Sites Using Machine Learning
This study analyzes the most important predictors of acceptance of social network sites in a sample of Chilean elder people (over 60). We employ a novelty procedure to explore this phenomenon.
Patricio E. Ramírez-Correa +5 more
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REACTIVE INTERACTION AND SUBJECTIVITY IN SOCIAL NETWORK SITES
This article presents a reflection on the reactive interaction concept, aiming a reframing at the social network sites context. Using a descriptive method, the functionality "like" was observed on Facebook.
Hamilton Garcia Nogueira +2 more
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Conjoining Speeds up Information Diffusion in Overlaying Social-Physical Networks [PDF]
We study the diffusion of information in an overlaying social-physical network. Specifically, we consider the following set-up: There is a physical information network where information spreads amongst people through conventional communication media (e.g.
Cochran, Douglas +3 more
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