Students use Facebook to organize their classroom experiences [1], but hardly to share and form opinions on subject matters. We explore the benefits of argument diagrams for the formation of scientific opinion on behaviorism in Facebook. We aim at raising awareness of opinion conflict and structuring the argumentation with scripts [2]. A lab study with University students (ten dyads per conditi...

Recently, social networks have attracted a particular interest in the web, particularly Facebook. Consequently, a large amount of social data is produced. For semantic modeling of such data, several social network ontologies are introduced. The most popular is FoaF (Friend of a Friend) ontology. In our research, we are interested in data generated from Facebook social network. Heretofore, the s...

Facebook has become a widely used online self-representation and communication platform. In this research, we focus on emotional disclosure on Facebook. We conducted two studies, and results from both self-report and observer rating show that individuals are more likely to express positive relative to negative emotions and present better emotional well-being on Facebook than in real life. Our s...

There is a substantial amount of current information systems and marketing research focused on social networking sites, most frequently on Facebook. Often, these studies utilize available metadata on user on-line behavior, such as what links the users clicked on. In order to better understand behavior of Facebook users, it makes sense to investigate also whom the users connect to. It is possibl...

This study examines the potential link of Facebook group participation with viral advertising responses. The results suggest that college-aged Facebook group members engage in higher levels of self-disclosure and maintain more favorable attitudes toward social media and advertising in general than do nongroup members. However, Facebook group participation does not exert an influence on users' v...

A survey of adolescents (N = 1,488) documented third-person perception (TPP) regarding Facebook use and cyber bullying. As Facebook establishes itself as the dominant social network, users expose themselves to a level of bullying not possible in the analog world. The study found that 84% of adolescents (middle school through college undergraduates) use Facebook, and that most users log on daily...

BACKGROUND Peer mentoring is a powerful pedagogical approach for supporting undergraduate medical students in their learning environment. However, it remains unclear what exactly peer mentoring is and whether and how undergraduate medical students use social media for peer-mentoring activities. OBJECTIVE We aimed at describing and exploring the Facebook use of undergraduate medical students d...

The media’s portrayal of women is often sexually objectifying, and greater exposure to objectifying media is associated with higher levels of self-objectification among young women. One reason why media usage may be associated with selfobjectification is because women may be comparing their appearance to others in the media. The present study examined (a) the relationship between the usage of d...

The advent of social networking sites presents further opportunities for criminals to obtain information for use in identity theft, cyber-stalking, and worse activities. Moreover, people lose their jobs or cannot get hired because of the information they share on social networking sites, particularly on Facebook. This paper presents research investigating what kind of information Facebook users...

The purpose of this study was to examine students’ experiences using Facebook as a learning management system during a course. The study participants were 18 junior education faculty students attending a compulsory distance education undergraduate course delivered by the Computer Education and Instructional Technology Department at a university in Turkey. Upon completion of the 14-week Facebook...