Social Network Sites: Public Private or What?

By D. boyd. 2007

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Seven Months with the Devils: A Long-Term Study of Content Polluters on Twitter (2011, background): “Other researchers have studied the privacy threats related to public information revelation in social networking sites (Acquisti and Gross 2006; Backstrom, Dwork, and Kleinberg 2007; Boyd 2007; Gross, Acquisti, and Heinz 2005).”
Self-Presentation and Gender on MySpace. (2008, background): “The opportunities to engage in social exchanges and relationship displays inways that are public, replicable and persistent, presents a kind of interactivity that has been little studied (boyd, 2007).”
Quantifying the invisible audience in social networks (2013, background): “Design decisions with respect to audience visibility can influence users’ interactions with their audience [9].”