Cultural influences on Facebook practices: A comparative study of college students in Namibia and the United States

Peters, Anicia; Winschiers‐Theophilus, Heike; Mennecke, Brian E.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.065

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“…preferred more public expressions of closeness diffused on Facebook. Additionally, researchers who conducted focus groups in the U.S. and Namibia, found that Namibian college students, who have less individualistic values, were more likely to view Facebook as a tool for privately chatting with friends than U.S. college students (Peters, Winschiers-Theophilus, & Mennecke, 2015). In the same vein, researchers found that lower individualism was correlated with concerns about privacy which was associated with preferring the use of instant messenger over other methods of communication (Lowry, Cao, & Everard, 2010).…”

Section: Individualism and Facebook Network Sizementioning

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Private message me s'il vous plait : Preferences for personal and masspersonal communications on Facebook among American and French students

Brown

Michinov

Manago

2017

Computers in Human Behavior

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Facebook, a social networking tool used worldwide, provides affordances for public/ masspersonal and private/personal communication. Based on previous cross-cultural research demonstrating that masspersonal communication is adaptive in individualistic cultural contexts, we hypothesized that using Facebook to broadcast messages to one's entire network would be relatively more common and appealing to people in countries with greater individualistic values. To test this hypothesis, data were collected in two Western countries differing in levels of individualism, France (204 women, 47 men) and the U.S. (75 women, 89 men), through questionnaires measuring their Facebook use. Results indicated that American college students had larger Facebook networks and used both more masspersonal and personal communication with acquaintances compared to French college students. Masspersonal communication was mediated by network size. French students used more personal communication with friends than American students, but this association was not mediated by network size. These findings suggest that the appeal of masspersonal communication increases as a function of social network size, however, level of engagement in personal communication on Facebook is a function of other cultural differences between the U.S. and France, such as differences in individualistic values.

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Section: Individualism and Facebook Network Sizementioning

confidence: 99%

Private message me s'il vous plait : Preferences for personal and masspersonal communications on Facebook among American and French students

Brown

Michinov

Manago

2017

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…Some researchers argue that all digital natives do not share the same level of competencies and knowledge about technologies. They may differ according to habits and access to technologies 2,[4][5][6][9][10][11][12][13][14] . Even if one grows up with opportunities to use digital media, it does not mean that one will actually take advantage of this favorable context and use them.…”

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Factor Structure Evaluation of the French Version of the Digital Natives Assessment Scale

Wagner

Acier

2017

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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"Digital natives" concept defines young adults particularly familiar with emerging technologies such as computers, smartphones, or Internet. This notion is still controversial and so far, the primary identifying criterion was to consider their date of birth. However, literature highlighted the need to describe specific characteristics. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the factor structure of a French version of the Digital Natives Assessment Scale (DNAS). The sample of this study includes 590 participants from a 6-week massive open online course and from Web sites, electronic forums, and social networks. The DNAS was translated in French and then back-translated to English. A principal component analysis with orthogonal rotation followed by a confirmatory factorial analysis showed that a 15-item four-correlated component model provided the best fit for the data of our sample. Factor structure of this French-translated version of the DNAS was rather similar than those found in earlier studies. This study provides evidence of the DNAS robustness through cross-cultural and cross-generational validation. The French version of the DNAS appears to be appropriate as a quick and effective questionnaire to assess digital natives. More studies are needed to better define further features of this particular group.

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“…This trend has also rapidly changed college students' reading practices from linear printed materials to nonlinear on‐screen reading (Huang et al., ; Lin, Yen, Hsu, Jin, & Lin, ). More specifically, social media websites (e.g., Facebook) have welcomed college‐age users to connect to the world through their networks (Peters, Winschiers‐Theophilus, & Mennecke, ). To date, nearly 99% of U.S. college students use Facebook (Goel, ; Jones & Fox, ; Junco, ; Matney & Borland, ).…”

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U.S. and Chilean College Students' Reading Practices: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

2016

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between the amounts of time that U.S. and Chilean students spend on conventional academic reading, extracurricular reading, and Facebook and also to report the types of materials they prefer to read. The study surveyed students in the United States (n = 1,265) and Chile (n = 2,076) across all discipline areas. Descriptive analysis indicated that U.S. students spent 4.94 hours on academic reading, 4.17 hours on extracurricular reading, and 16.40 hours on Facebook weekly. For Chilean students, the figures were 13.17 hours, 3.07 hours, and 14.00 hours, respectively. The results indicated that for both U.S. and Chilean participants, online reading materials were the most popular type of material, followed by magazines/newspapers, graphic novels/comic books, best‐selling novels, and nonmajor academic books (books on topics outside the student's major subject in conventional print format). Due to the impact of the Internet on reading resources, students' reading patterns today are different from how they were in the past. College students' reading practices have moved to different venues with the advent of Internet technology, and the modality has migrated to online reading. Specifically, social media sites (e.g., Facebook) provide social accessibility to academic contexts that constitute students' learning experiences and shape their identities.

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Cultural influences on Facebook practices: A comparative study of college students in Namibia and the United States

Cited by 50 publications

References 23 publications

Private message me s'il vous plait : Preferences for personal and masspersonal communications on Facebook among American and French students

Private message me s'il vous plait : Preferences for personal and masspersonal communications on Facebook among American and French students

Factor Structure Evaluation of the French Version of the Digital Natives Assessment Scale

U.S. and Chilean College Students' Reading Practices: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

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