Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of facebook

By Adam N. Joinson. 2008

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “Motivations include communication, friendship maintenance, job seeking, or self-presentation (Lampe et al., 2006; Joinson, 2008), which are often also key to understanding ethical facets of social data use.”
Promoting EFL learners’ intercultural communication effectiveness: a focus on Facebook (2017, background): “Facebook is used for a variety of reasons such as presenting and sharing identities, social connection, status updating, social investigation, and social network surfing (Ainin, Naqshbandi, Moghavvemi, & Jaafar, 2015; Joinson, 2008; Nadkarni & Hofmann, 2012). Facebook has recently emerged as an effe”
Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review (2017, background): “similar platforms? Most people report that they do so in order to stay in touch with family and friends (Joinson, 2008).”
Four facets of Facebook Intensity - The development of the Multidimensional Facebook Intensity Scale (2016, background): “We distinguish Facebook intensity from motivations (Aladwani, 2014; Bijari et al., 2013; Joinson, 2008; Mazman & Usluel, 2010; Pempek et al., 2009; Sheldon, 2008; Smock, Ellison, Lampe, & Wohn, 2011; Tosun, 2012; Yang & Brown, 2013).”
Gender Differences in Using Social Networks. (2011, background): “Similarly, in line with this study, Joinson (2008) categorized individual’s social network usages under seven categories, namely ‘social connection’, ‘shared identities’, ‘photographs’, ‘content gratifications’, ‘social investigation’, ‘social network surfing’ and ‘status updates’, and found that…”
Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective (2009, methodology): “Therefore, our work is related to the efforts that re ly on surveys [10, 35, 1] and interviews [17].”
It's not that i don't have problems, i'm just not putting them on facebook: challenges and opportunities in using online social networks for health (2011, background): “Facebook Online social networking sites such as Facebook are typically used to support pre-existing social relationships [6] and activity on such sites is dominated by surveying the status and activities of friends and managing one’s selfpresentation through status updates and the information on one”
Social comparison, social media, and self-esteem. (2014, background): “…in a 2 (personal user content conveying upward 3 As prior research has shown that females have lower self-esteem and greater use of social media (Joinson, 2008; Kling, Hyde, Showers, & Buswell, 1999; Tufekci, 2008), we examined whether participant sex was related to our key dependent measures.”
Changes in use and perception of facebook (2008, methodology): “Use of Facebook is heterogeneous among users [16] and changes as individuals move from one life stage or social context to another [8].”
Love me Tinder: Untangling emerging adults' motivations for using the dating application Tinder (2017, positive): “Different motivations may result in different usage patterns of online applications (Joinson, 2008; Lin & Lu, 2011; Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012; Ross et al., 2009; Smock et al., 2011).”
Who compares and despairs? The effect of social comparison orientation on social media use and its outcomes. (2015, background): “Indeed, it appears that people are quite interested in learning about others on SNSs, as most networking activity consists of browsing others' profiles without initiating social interaction (Joinson, 2008; Pempek, Yermolayeva, & Calvert, 2009).”
What do people ask their social networks, and why?: a survey study of status message q&a behavior (2010, background): “Joinson [18] identified seven primary uses of Facebook via a survey of 241 users .”