A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing

By Cliff Lampe, Nicole B. Ellison, Charles W. Steinfield. 2006

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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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.”
Distilling the Outcomes of Personal Experiences: A Propensity-scored Analysis of Social Media (2017, background): “People do this for many reasons [30, 51, 57, 71, 74]: keeping in touch with friends, gaining social capital, or even helping others.”
The socialbot network: when bots socialize for fame and money (2011, background): “Besides, we believe it is particularly difficult to operate an SbN on Facebook as (1) unlike other OSNs, Facebook is mostly used to connect to real-life friends and family but not to strangers [19, 38, 39], and (2) Facebook employs the Facebook Immune System (FIS) [59]: an adversarial learning syste”
Facebook: An online environment for learning of English in institutions of higher education? (2010, background): “It would be interesting to observe if university students are able to improve their English through this new way of communication since, according to Lempe, Ellison, and Steinfield (2006), an increasing number of university students have turned into avid users of FB, who login frequently.”
Shyness and online social networking services (2010, background): “Social networking sites are increasingly popular among all population strata and are changing how people initiate and maintain relationships (Ellison, et al., 2007; Lampe et al., 2006; Raacke & Bonds-Raacke, 2008).”
Trust and Privacy Concern Within Social Networking Sites: A Comparison of Facebook and MySpace (2007, background): “Facebook, a social networking site that began with a focus on colleges and universities, but now includes high schools and other organizations, has been studied by (Acquisti and Gross, 2006, Lampe, Ellison, and Steinfield, 2007, Stutzman, 2006).”
Social capital, self-esteem, and use of online social network sites: A longitudinal analysis (2008, background): “7). Facebook has become very popular among undergraduates, with usage rates upwards of 90% at most campuses ( Lampe, Ellison, & Steinfield, 2006; Stutzman, 2006).”
Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of facebook (2008, background): “[16] draw a distinction between the use of Facebook for ‘social searching’ – finding out information about offline contacts, and ‘social browsing’ – the use of the site to develop new connections, sometimes with the aim of offline interaction.”
Rise of the expert amateur: DIY projects, communities, and cultures (2010, background): “RELATED WORK An extensive body of work explores online communities in the domains of gaming (World of Warcraft), compiling objective knowledge (Wikipdia), open source software, and social networking (Facebook, MySpace), to name a few [3,13,24,28].”
Leaders in Social Networks, the Delicious Case (2011, background): “This collective search [1,2] may one day complement the current search paradigm based on isolated queries, and the key to its success is to identify influential users in social communities.”
Technology acceptance model (TAM) and social media usage: an empirical study on Facebook (2014, positive): “Lampe, Ellison, and Steinfield (2006) found that Facebook users engage in "searching" for people with whom they have an offline connection more than they "browse" for complete strangers to meet indicating the support for the construct of critical mass. Similarly, Pew research found that 91% of U.S.…”