Cultural divide and the Internet

Recabarren, Matías; Nussbaum, Miguél; Leiva, Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2008.04.013

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“…While previous research highlighted cultural differences in the perception and use of social media 21,22,23,24,25 and internet performance and ability 26 , cultural variations in risky online self-presentation and its underlying processes have rarely been considered. Karl et al elucidate differences in online risky self-presentation.…”

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A Cross-Cultural Study of Risky Online Self-Presentation

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Cutello

Gummerum

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Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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The use of social media is pervasive among young adults. However, not all posted content is beneficial to their self-presentation, but can have negative and damaging consequences. This study investigated how individual differences in self-monitoring and impulsiveness influence risky online self-presentation in British and Italian samples. British participants (n = 88) were more likely to post comments and images related to their alcohol and drug use, whereas Italian (n = 90) participants posted more offensive content and personal information. High self-monitoring and high impulsiveness was positively predictive of risky self-presentation online regardless of nationality, highlighting the normative influence of social media culture, and the influence of both spontaneous and deliberative behavior on posting inappropriate content online. These novel insights regarding the way young adults present themselves on social network sites could help explain differences in self-presentation.

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A Cross-Cultural Study of Risky Online Self-Presentation

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Gummerum

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“…If these barriers can be overcome, the adaptation concept could be expanded by taking account of user characteristics such as culture in order to improve the experience of interacting with the Web. Despite the magnitude of the research program involved in surmounting these obstacles, we are convinced that the potential contribution of adapting websites to cultural and other characteristics will justify the effort, for it promises not only to improve the experience of current users but also promote the inclusion of those who feel excluded by existing methods of user interaction with the Internet (Recabarren et al 2008).…”

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“…Hofstede himself investigated and determined the values of these dimensions for more than 50 countries (Hofstede 1980), and the studies cited in Table 1 use his results to establish the culture of each user (user culture) based on country of origin. For the great majority of the inhabitants of a given country, Hofstede's cultural dimension values doubtlessly function well, but there is evidence that subgroups may exist within a country that differ significantly from the surrounding society's cultural norms (Recabarren et al 2008). This implies that a website designed in accordance with the cultural dimension values for a country as a whole will discriminate against groups that, though residents of the country, do not completely share the values of the rest of its population.…”

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Exploring the feasibility of web form adaptation to users’ cultural dimension scores

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Nussbaum

2010

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With many daily tasks now performed on the Internet, productivity and efficiency in working with web pages have become transversal necessities for all users. Many of these tasks involve the inputting of user information, obligating the user to interact with a webform. Research has demonstrated that productivity depends largely on users' personal characteristics, implying that it will vary from user to user. The webform development process must therefore, include modeling of its intended users to ensure the interface design is appropriate. Taking all potential users into account is difficult, however, primarily because their identity is unknown, and some may be effectively excluded by the final design. Such discrimination can be avoided by incorporating rules that allow webforms to adapt automatically to the individual user's characteristics, the principal one being the person's culture. In this paper we report two studies that validate this option. We begin by determining the relationships between a user's cultural dimension scores and their behavior when faced with a webform. We then validate the notion that rules based on these relationships can be established for the automatic adaptation of a webform in order to reduce the time taken to complete it. We conclude that the automatic webform adaptation to the cultural dimensions of users improves their performance.

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“…It is quite common to use these abbreviations in Europe, a fact that probably helped users to understand the rule and apply the correct formatting. Indeed works show the importance of considering cultural factors when it comes to web form design (Recabarren et al, 2008;Recabarren and Nussbaum, 2010). The analysis on task level shows very clearly, that the difficulty of entering correct answers does not only depend on the information provided via format restriction labels, but also on the implied restriction on the data.…”

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Enhancing online forms: Use format specifications for fields with format restrictions to help respondents

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Orsini

Piosczyk

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a b s t r a c tField format restrictions are often used in online forms to impose certain formatting and content rules on users, such as minimum password length or date entry format. In this study, the question whether and how format restrictions for fields in online forms should be communicated to Internet users was explored. In an online study with n = 166 participants, four ways to communicate format restrictions were investigated: (1) no visual format restriction, (2) format examples, (3) format specifications, and (4) both format restrictions (examples and specifications). Results show that providing details of any format restriction to users in advance leads to significantly fewer errors and trials. The most efficient way to communicate field format restrictions to users is by stating the imposed rule (format specification). Providing an additional example neither helps nor constrains users.

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Cultural divide and the Internet

Cited by 36 publications

References 12 publications

A Cross-Cultural Study of Risky Online Self-Presentation

A Cross-Cultural Study of Risky Online Self-Presentation

Exploring the feasibility of web form adaptation to users’ cultural dimension scores

Enhancing online forms: Use format specifications for fields with format restrictions to help respondents

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