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- short-paperJuly 2018
I - Facebook - World: How People Relate to Technology and the World through Facebook Use
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 370–374https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217947This study addresses how young Danish adults (18-26 years old) describe and critically reflect on the role of Facebook, the algorithm and the news feed as a way of receiving information and relating to the world. The analysis is based on a critical ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
#MyPrivacy: How Users Think About Social Media Privacy
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 360–364https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217945This study explores privacy from the perspective of the user, leveraging a "framing in thought" approach to capture how users make sense of privacy in their social media use. Definitions of privacy collected from 608 social media users are analyzed ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
Exploring Selective Exposure and Selective Avoidance Behavior in Social Media
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 350–354https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217943This study investigates social media users' preferences of encountering or actively avoiding undesired content and conflicts in social interaction with others. Based on a nationwide survey (N=3706) conducted in Finland and using principal component ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
A Message's Persuasive Features in Wikipedia's Article for Deletion Discussions
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 345–349https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217942In this study, we examine indicators of an OOC comment's persuasive power in the context of Wikipedia's Article for Deletion (AfD) discussions. Our preliminary results are in general consistent with the previous persuasion studies in Reddit discussion. ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
Living with HIV/AIDS: Exploring Vloggers' Narratives on YouTube
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 320–324https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217937Video blogs (vlogging) on YouTube have become a growing source of health information for individuals who have HIV/AIDS. Our study investigates the types of information video bloggers (vloggers) choose to share around their experiences managing HIV/AIDS. ...
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- short-paperJuly 2018
(Anti-)Echo Chamber Participation: Examining Contributor Activity Beyond the Chamber
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 301–304https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217933The existence of echo chambers as a phenomenon in social media has been widely debated in recent years. This research examines the social news website Reddit, where users engage with each other indirectly as part of topic-based communities. These ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
Netflix and Ill?: Emotional and Health Implications of Binge Watching Streaming TV
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 296–300https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217932It has been suggested in some preliminary and somewhat anecdotal work that the effects of binge watching platforms such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime have been reported to include depression, chronic illness, weight gain, sleep disorders, and a ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
Avoiding Drama: Student and Teacher Positioning within a School's Social Media Ecosystem
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 271–275https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217927This paper presents findings from a study of high school student and teacher use of social media within the school context, focusing on the role that drama plays in their descriptions of personal and peer social media use. Findings suggest that most ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
#13ReasonsWhy Twitter Users are Tweeting about a Netflix Show about Teen Suicide
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 261–265https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217925This study explored how Twitter users engaged with and responded to a popular Netflix series on the topic of teen suicide. This research is set within an emerging research stream focused on how people use social media to discuss issues, events, or, in ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
Teens and Social Media: A Case Study of High School Students' Informal Learning Practices and Trajectories
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 241–245https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217920This study is a segment of a larger investigation of high school students' use of social media platforms and networks. In the spring of 2017, the researchers conducted detailed, individual interviews with high school students (10th and 12th grade) about ...
- research-articleJuly 2018
Comfortably Numb: Danish Teens' Attitudes, Towards Social Media Platforms
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 187–196https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217911How do teens deal with the complexities of the digital world? Although many scholars have asked this question, few have considered not only the interpersonal concerns that loom large in the lives of teens and young adults but also their relationship ...
- research-articleJuly 2018
Influencers in Polarized Political Networks on Twitter
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 168–177https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217909This study aims to identify influencers roles in political conversations on Twitter and their effect in the online public sphere. We analyze data from three key days during the impeachment process of the ex-president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff. Using a ...
- research-articleJuly 2018
In the User We Trust: Unrealistic Expectations of Facebook's Privacy Mechanisms
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 138–149https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217906Facebook has created a complex system of controls to manage disclosure in an effort to help users address privacy concerns. Do these controls work in practice? What about controls for disclosure to Facebook itself? We explore user relationships with ...
- research-articleJuly 2018
The BigFoot Initiative: An Investigation of Digital Footprint Awareness in Social Media
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 120–127https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217904Social media has become an important part of modern-day communication. Advantages span from instant communication via direct messages to sharing and consuming content and experiences. Lately, social media applications have been criticized for assisting ...
- research-articleJuly 2018
Consensus Analysis of Shared Beliefs Among Young Adults About Anonymity in Social Media
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 13–21https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217893The social media ecosystem is constituted by platforms and applications with varying affordances for and rules regarding anonymity. How and why users use and how they percieve online anonymity remains a focus of social media and Internet research, ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
The Expression of Emotions on Instagram
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 380–384https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217949This preliminary research study examines women farmers on Instagram who use the hashtag #womenwhofarm. We investigate the emotional valence of these posts using a multimodal analysis of both text and images. Previous research has found a positivity bias ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
"People who defend their homeland": Motivations for Joining and Being Active in an Anti-Immigration Group on Facebook
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 375–379https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217948This study strives to contribute in explaining the mechanisms and role of homogeneous social media communities in formation of ethnic prejudice, the phenomena being often named in the literature as echo chamber effect. The paper will present the ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
Going Anonymous: Uses and Perceptions of Anonymous Social Media in an IT Organization
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 335–339https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217940Anonymous social media provide opportunities and challenges for the organizations where they are used, but relatively little is known about how these tools are used and perceived by various types of organizational members. This paper reports preliminary ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
Twitter, Gab, and Racism: The Case of the Soros Myth
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 330–334https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217939With pressure on Twitter from governments and others intent on preventing the spread of racist, including anti-Semitic and Islamophobic, messages, it appears that some right-wing populist users have moved to Gab, where they are less likely to be ...
- short-paperJuly 2018
Conceptualizing 'Use' in Social Media Studies
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and SocietyPages 325–329https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217938In this work-in-progress paper, we draw upon previous work and our own ongoing studies of the practices surrounding social media to discuss the conceptualization of social media use. We ask "what is social media use?", and discuss how very different ...
