A review of Facebook research in the social sciences

RE Wilson, SD Gosling… - … on psychological science, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
With over 800 million active users, Facebook is changing the way hundreds of millions of
people relate to one another and share information. A rapidly growing body of research has …

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and hyperkinetic disorder

JM Swanson, JA Sergeant, E Taylor… - The Lancet, 1998 - thelancet.com
SEMINAR that have resulted in different interpretations of a core deficit, but in the context of
a general theory of attention these differences maybe primarily semantic. 11 The ratio of …

Authentic self-expression on social media is associated with greater subjective well-being

ER Bailey, SC Matz, W Youyou, SS Iyengar - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Social media users face a tension between presenting themselves in an idealized or
authentic way. Here, we explore how prioritizing one over the other impacts users' well …

Examining WeChat users' motivations, trust, attitudes, and positive word-of-mouth: Evidence from China

CH Lien, Y Cao - Computers in human behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
WeChat is a mobile instant text and voice messaging communication service and has
become an important social media platform in China. The objectives of this article are to …

Uses and gratifications of social media: A comparison of Facebook and instant messaging

A Quan-Haase, AL Young - Bulletin of science, technology & …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Users have adopted a wide range of digital technologies into their communication
repertoire. It remains unclear why they adopt multiple forms of communication instead of …

Looking at, looking up or kee** up with people? Motives and use of Facebook

AN Joinson - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
This paper investigates the uses of social networking site Facebook, and the gratifications
users derive from those uses. In the first study, 137 users generated words or phrases to …

[KNIHA][B] Internet and society: Social theory in the information age

C Fuchs - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the
lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. By outlining a social …

Internet social network communities: Risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns

J Fogel, E Nehmad - Computers in human behavior, 2009 - Elsevier
Individuals communicate and form relationships through Internet social networking websites
such as Facebook and MySpace. We study risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns with …

Using online social networking for teaching and learning: Facebook use at the University of Cape Town

TE Bosch - … : South African Journal for Communication Theory and …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Web-based learning has made learning content much more freely and instantaneously
available to students who can download course notes and readings with a single mouse …

Age differences in online social networking–A study of user profiles and the social capital divide among teenagers and older users in MySpace

U Pfeil, R Arjan, P Zaphiris - Computers in Human Behavior, 2009 - Elsevier
The aim of this research was to investigate age differences and similarities in the use of the
social networking website MySpace, to explore potential differences in social capital among …