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Teenagers' use of uncertainty reduction strategies on social network sites in the offline network Universiteit Gent
This paper presents the results of a study concerning the use of profile pages by adolescents to get to know more about friends and acquaintances known from offline life. Previous research has indicated that social network sites are used to gather information on new online contacts. However, several studies have demonstrated a substantial overlap between offline and online social networks. Hence, we question whether online profile connections ...
Daily Active Users of Social Network Sites: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram-Use Compared to General Social Network Site Use Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Most research on Social Network Sites (SNS) has focused on Facebook. Some scholars have argued to abandon the focus on a single platform in favor of studying SNS in general (GSNS). Others call for more comparative research of different SNS. With this study, we contribute to both approaches by taking a multi-cross platform approach comparing specific SNS as well as GSNS and their underlying user-profile. We obtained cross-sectional data from 5500 ...
Privacy beyond the individual: analysing group based access control models on social network sites from a user perspective Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Social Network Sites (SNS) can be empowering for the user to announce an online identity and manage their social network. Announcing the identity is the social process in which a person claims an identity and presents it towards others. Taking into account privacy when identity processes take place can be a difficult task for the user and depends strongly on how the situation is defined. In an offline environment a more or less clear definition ...
Symbolic Interactionist perspective on linking privacy and identity in social network sites Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Media in the present day society are characterized by an increasing degree of digitalization and of
convergence between mass communication and personal communication, leading up to so-called
mass self-communication. Through this process new platforms for acting and identity formation
are brought to existence. Social network sites (SNS) can be seen as an important fraction of mass
self-communication, which are very ...
convergence between mass communication and personal communication, leading up to so-called
mass self-communication. Through this process new platforms for acting and identity formation
are brought to existence. Social network sites (SNS) can be seen as an important fraction of mass
self-communication, which are very ...
Privacy by Design through social requirements analysis of social network sites from a user perspective Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The paper operationalizes the concept of privacy by design for social network sites (SNS), defined asevaluating and embedding privacy in the development and adjustment of SNS technology. More inparticular we identify the necessary social requirements of SNS in order to optimize the privacy froma user perspective. For this, one of the application domains of privacy by design, the seven laws ofidentity proposed by Kim Cameron, is assessed and ...
Recruitment and selection using social network sites Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This chapter looks at how social network sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter can be used for recruiting staff members within or outside the organization and during selection procedures. The authors present the opportunities and review scientific literature to analyze whether these opportunities are already used by organizations and what effects their use may have. It thereby becomes clear that although much work has already been done in ...