A Study of Social Information Control Affordances and Gender Difference in Facebook Self-Presentation
| Autor: | Cathy S. Lin, Fan-Chuan Tseng, Chih-Yi Tseng, Feng-Yang Kuo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Interface (computing) Culture Control (management) Internet privacy User-Computer Interface Young Adult Presentation Sex Factors Humans Social Behavior Affordance Social information Applied Psychology media_common Social network business.industry Communication Contrast (statistics) General Medicine Self Concept Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction Action (philosophy) Privacy Female business Psychology Social Media Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 16:635-644 |
| ISSN: | 2152-2723 2152-2715 |
| Popis: | Affordances refer to how interface features of an IT artifact, perceived by its users in terms of their potentials for action, may predict the intensity of usage. This study investigates three social information affordances for expressive information control, privacy information control, and image information control in Facebook. The results show that the three affordances can significantly explain how Facebook's interface designs facilitate users' self-presentation activities. In addition, the findings reveal that males are more engaged in expressing information than females, while females are more involved in privacy control than males. A practical application of our study is to compare and contrast the level of affordances offered by various social network sites (SNS) like Facebook and Twitter, as well as differences in online self-presentations across cultures. Our approach can therefore be useful to investigate how SNS design features can be tailored to specific gender and culture needs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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