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Previous work on social network sites (SNSs) has extensively examined Facebook use. Grounded in the scholarship of social capital and social relationship maintenance, we examined international students’ participation with Facebook versus a SNS in their home-country (Renren or Cyworld). We anticipated that social network building on Facebook would be driven by desires to expand bridging social capital,...
Social Network Sites (SNSs) are fundamentally changing the way humans connect, communicate, and relate to one another and have attracted a considerable amount of research attention. In general, two distinct research approaches have been followed in the pursuit of results in this research area. Firstly, established traditional social science methods, such as surveys and interviews, have been extensively...
Reconnecting with past relationships is documented as one of the main motivations for using Social Network Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook. Numerous studies underline the ways SNSs may support social interactions in the broad context of the offline-and-online seamless web. However, in the author's knowledge, no studies have been conducted to link these two aspects, and very little research addresses...
Social network sites (SNSs) have become an important part of daily communication practices and media use for millions of people. SNSs enable people to interact with content such as photographs or videos in a new way, to create user profiles and communicate with others through these online presentations of self. This study examines social practices among the group of active users of the popular online...
While the growing popularity of social network sites (SNSs) reflects a desire for individuals to move their offline networks to an online space, there are a number of organizational and social settings in which online interactions precede offline meetings. When this happens, interactants may only have limited information about their partners on which to make judgments. Avatars can provide important...
The first aim of this study was to examine which uncertainty reduction strategies members of social network sites used to gain information about a person who they had recently met online. The second aim was to investigate whether and how these uncertainty reduction strategies resulted in social attraction. Drawing on a survey of 704 members of a social network site, we found that respondents had used...
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