“What can I really do?” Explaining the privacy paradox with online apathy

E Hargittai, A Marwick - International journal of communication, 2016 - ijoc.org
Based on focus group interviews, we considered how young adults' attitudes about privacy
can be reconciled with their online behavior. The “privacy paradox” suggests that young …

“Think globally, act locally”: A glocal approach to the development of social media literacy

S Manca, S Bocconi, B Gleason - Computers & Education, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the documented number of studies that investigate social media in teaching and
learning settings, the topic of social media literacy is still an under-researched area. This …

How people form folk theories of social media feeds and what it means for how we study self-presentation

MA DeVito, J Birnholtz, JT Hancock, M French… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Self-presentation is a process that is significantly complicated by the rise of algorithmic
social media feeds, which obscure information about one's audience and environment. User …

'Too Gay for Facebook' Presenting LGBTQ+ Identity Throughout the Personal Social Media Ecosystem

MA DeVito, AM Walker, J Birnholtz - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Most US social media users engage regularly with multiple platforms. For LGBTQ+ people,
this means making self-presentation decisions not just on one platform, but many. These …

Platforms, people, and perception: Using affordances to understand self-presentation on social media

MA DeVito, J Birnholtz, JT Hancock - … of the 2017 ACM conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The popularity of social media platforms today makes them an important venue for self-
presentation, but the unique affordances of these platforms challenge our existing models …

Social sharing of emotions on Facebook: Channel differences, satisfaction, and replies

NN Bazarova, YH Choi, V Schwanda Sosik… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
People often share emotions with others in order to manage their emotional experiences.
We investigate how social media properties such as visibility and directedness affect how …

“He has a way gayer Facebook than I do”: Investigating sexual identity disclosure and context collapse on a social networking site

S Duguay - New media & society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This study extends previous research into social networking sites (SNSs) as environments
that often reduce spatial, temporal, and social boundaries, which can result in collapsed …

Adaptive folk theorization as a path to algorithmic literacy on changing platforms

MA DeVito - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The increased importance of opaque, algorithmically-driven social platforms (eg, Facebook,
YouTube) to everyday users as a medium for self-presentation effectively requires users to …

Internet skills and why they matter

E Hargittai, M Micheli - Society and the internet: How networks of …, 2019 - books.google.com
Given that the Internet is now ubiquitous in high-income nations, do Internet skills still
matter? The authors of this chapter synthesize a body of research that Shows how Internet …

The channel matters: Self-disclosure, reciprocity and social support in online cancer support groups

D Yang, Z Yao, J Seering, R Kraut - … of the 2019 chi conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
People with health concerns go to online health support groups to obtain help and advice.
To do so, they frequently disclose personal details, many times in public. Although research …