In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, social network sites such as Facebook allowed users to share their political beliefs, support specific candidates, and interact with others on political issues. But do political activities on Facebook affect political participation among young voters, a group traditionally perceived as apathetic in regard to civic engagement? Or do these activities repres...

The friendship information of Rochester Institute of Technology students was collected through a custom Facebook survey. A social network was then constructed using that friendship data. The RIT Facebook network will provide a target network to which randomly simulated networks will be calibrated in order to repeatedly conduct Monte Carlo experiments on rumor propagation through a social networ...

Social media, as a major platform to disseminate information, has changed the way users and communities contribute content. In this paper, we aim to study content modifications on public Facebook pages operated by news media, community groups, and bloggers. We also study the possible reasons behind them, and their effects on user interaction. We conducted a detailed study of Content Censorship ...

Facebook was initially designed as a social tool representing a person‟s social life, yet today it functions as a platform synthesizing all facets of life, including the work context. Within the frame of the social capital theory, a survey was conducted measuring Facebook users‟ experience, perceptions of privacy and career impression management. Results found that higher Facebook experience wa...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate using an Internet-based social networking site within an elective geriatric pharmacotherapy course. DESIGN Thirty pharmacy students enrolled in a geriatric pharmacotherapy elective course were invited to join a closed Facebook (Facebook Inc, Palo Alto, CA) group to enhance communication among students and faculty members within the course. Creating a discussion board was...

This study applies the uses and gratifications theory (U&G) to examine self-disclosive behavior on Facebook. Using a convenience sample of 301 Facebook users, path analyses were conducted to determine how individual factors, social cohesion, and motives affect the honesty, valence, and intent of self-disclosure. Results showed that U&G provided a useful model for exploring the relationships amo...

Although there is evidence that academically successful students are engaged with their studies, it has proved difficult to define student engagement clearly. Student engagement is commonly construed as having two dimensions, social and academic. The rapid adoption of social media and digital technologies has ensured increasing interest in using them for improving student engagement. This paper...

Terra B. Jacobson is Public Services Manager in the Library at Prairie State College; e-mail: Terra.jacobson@ gmail.com. The author would like to thank Dr. Noriko Hara for all of her assistance and guidance with this paper. © Terra B. Jacobson As Facebook has come to dominate the social networking site arena, more libraries have created their own library pages on Facebook to create library awar...

We examine the problem of automatically identifying and tagging users in photos on a social networking environment known as Facebook. The presented automatic facial tagging system is split into three subsystems: obtaining image data from Facebook, detecting faces in the images and recognizing the faces to match faces to individuals. Firstly, image data is extracted from Facebook by interfacing ...

Does using Facebook help people to meet their relatedness needs? Study 1 shows that more frequent Facebook usage paradoxically correlates with more relatedness satisfaction (connection) and more relatedness dissatisfaction (disconnection). Study 2 supports a 2-process explanation of this finding, showing that disconnection motivates greater usage as a coping strategy, whereas connection results...