The Impact of Context Collapse and Privacy on Social Network Site Disclosures

By Jessica Vitak. 2012

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review (2016, background): “Studies also found that users with greater concern over their privacy limited the amount of information they posted on Facebook, and this in turn affected the amount of social capital they possessed (Ko and Kuo, 2009; Vitak, 2012).”
Sharing the small moments: ephemeral social interaction on Snapchat (2016, background): “For these reasons, persistent social media are more likely to lead to experiences of “context collapse,” in which users find it challenging to decide what information to disclose given their diverse online audiences (Marwick & boyd, 2014; Vitak, 2012).”
Influence of Social Support Received in Online and Offline Contexts on Satisfaction With Social Support and Satisfaction With Life: A Longitudinal Study (2015, background): “These online friends from different contexts 78 S. Trepte et al. are usually aggregated into one broad audience, thus, creating a ‘‘context collapse’’ (Vitak, 2012, p. 451).”
Online Media Forums as Separate Social Lives: A Qualitative Study of Disclosure Within and Beyond Reddit (2015, background): “Vitak (2012) found that a small minority of people on Facebook use its “friend list” feature to segment the audience and manage personal disclosures, suggesting that it takes great time, effort, and knowledge to post to a slice of one’s entire network.”
Making It “Facebook Official”: Reflecting on Romantic Relationships Through Sustained Facebook Use (2016, background): “…and how intimacy on sites like Facebook “can be used to understand some of the erosions between public and private spaces”; (Hinton and Hjorth, 2013, p. 3) or as others have described it, how intimacy plays out in the context of “networked publics” (boyd, 2014) and “context collapse” (Vitak, 2012).”
Self‐Disclosure in Social Media: Extending the Functional Approach to Disclosure Motivations and Characteristics on Social Network Sites (2014, background): “This suggests that information control may be exercised not at the level of disclosure amount, but its intimacy, which is consistent with findings from previous research showing that people share more disclosures, not less, in larger, more diverse, and sparser networks on SNSs (Vitak, 2012; Kivran-S”
Openness and praxis: Exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education (2017, background): “This mixing of streams, defined by Marwick and boyd (2010) as context collapse, is described by Vitak (2012) as “the flattening out of multiple distinct audiences in one’s social network, such that people from different contexts become part of a singular group of message recipients (p. 451).””
I'm Going to Instagram It! An Analysis of Athlete Self-Presentation on Instagram (2015, background): “With the growth in social media, self-presentation capabilities have only been enhanced (Rosenberg & Egbert, 2011; Van Der Heide, D’Angelo, & Schumaker, 2012; Vitak, 2012).”