Examining Students’ Intended Image on Facebook: “What Were They Thinking?!”

By Joy Peluchette, Katherine A. Karl. 2009

265 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/91195c39da5d9e3fd7915867a809243c28fd1ad2

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In Communication

1. Blair W. Browning
2. Philip L. Roth
3. Benedikt Jahn
4. Jimmy Sanderson
5. Werner H. Kunz
6. Stefan G. Hofmann
7. Ashwini Nadkarni

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Philip L. Roth
2. Chad H. Van Iddekinge
3. Blair W. Browning
4. E. D. Vaughn
5. Benedikt Jahn
6. Jimmy Sanderson
7. Werner H. Kunz
8. Stefan G. Hofmann

Citations in the corpus

• How to Transform Consumers into Fans of Your Brand (2012, background): “Further, Peluchette and Karl (2009) showed that Facebook users use their profiles and postings consciously to portray images about themselves.”
• The Writing on the (Facebook) Wall: The Use of Social Networking Sites in Hiring Decisions (2011, background): “Instead, research has examined the social implications of site membership (e.g., identity formation; Goodings et al. 2007) and the factors influencing the type of content shared by users (e.g., Peluchette and Karl 2010 ).”
• Social Media for Selection? Validity and Adverse Impact Potential of a Facebook-Based Assessment (2016, background): “First, researchers have found that females are less likely than males to post problematic content, such as substance abuse and sexual exploits, on SM platforms (Karl et al., 2010; Peluchette & Karl, 2010).”
• Research Note - Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users (2015, unknown): “specific image, to impress peers (Peluchette and Karl 2009)”
• The Positives and Negatives of Twitter: Exploring How Student-Athletes Use Twitter and Respond to Critical Tweets (2012, background): “503 www.IJSC-Journal.com ORIGINAL RESEARCH International Journal of Sport Communication, 2012, 5, 503-521 © 2012 Human Kinetics, Inc. Browning is with the Dept. of Communication, Baylor University, Waco, TX. Sanderson is with the Dept. of Communication Studies, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.”
• Why Do People Use Facebook? (2011, background): “Thus, the intent of users in posting inappropriate content was to portray a particular image in order to impress their peers (Peluchette & Karl, 2010).”