Facebook: A literature review

Caers, Ralf; Feyter, Tim De; Couck, Marijke; Stough, Talia; Vigna, Claudia; Bois, Cindy Du

doi:10.1177/1461444813488061

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“…The range of topics covered across the collection of literature review works reveals some of the diversity in emphasis and fields of study from which the works emerge. Some authors have focused on categorization of trends in academic literature related to specific social media platforms such as Facebook (Błachnio, Przepiórka, & Rudnicka, 2013;Caers et al, 2013;Hew, 2011;Manca & Ranieri, 2013;Nadkarni & Hofmann, 2012;Wilson, Gosling, & Graham, 2012), Twitter (Dhir, Buragga, & Boreqqah, 2013;Williams, Terras, & Warwick, 2013), or YouTube (Snelson, 2011). Other studies are grounded within a particular subject or field of study to examine social media as it relates to topics such as adolescent well-being (Best, Manktelow, & Taylor, 2014), health-care professionals (Hamm et al, 2013), type 1 diabetes (Jones, Sinclair, Holt, & Barnard, 2013), tourism and hospitality (Leung, Law, van Hoof, & Buhalis, 2013), or prediction of real-world events (Kalampokis, Tambouris, & Tarabanis, 2013).…”

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Qualitative and Mixed Methods Social Media Research

Snelson

2016

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Social media technologies have attracted substantial attention among many types of users including researchers who have published studies for several years. This article presents an overview of trends in qualitative and mixed methods social media research literature published from 2007 through 2013. A collection of 229 qualitative studies were identified through a systematic literature review process. A subset of 55 of these articles report studies involving a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Articles were reviewed, analyzed, and coded through a qualitative content analysis approach. Overall trends are presented with respect to the entire collection of articles followed by an analysis of mixed methods research approaches identified in the subset of 55 studies. The most commonly used research approaches involved collecting data from people through interview, focus group, and survey methodologies. Content analysis was the second most commonly used approach whereby researchers use Facebook posts, Tweets (Twitter posts), YouTube videos, or other social media content as a data source. Many of the studies involving combinations of quantitative and qualitative data followed a design resembling Creswell and Plano Clark's basic mixed methods typology (e.g., convergent parallel, explanatory sequential, and exploratory sequential).Keywords social media research, Web 2.0, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, mixed methods, qualitative This article presents a descriptive methodological analysis of qualitative and mixed methods approaches for social media research. It is based on a systematic review of 229 qualitative or mixed methods research articles published from 2007 through 2013 where social media played a central role. Publication trends are presented for the entire set of articles followed by analysis of a subset of 55 studies that combined qualitative and quantitative approaches consistent with an established mixed methods typology (Creswell, 2014;Creswell & Plano Clark, 2011). The literature analysis is first contextualized by presenting a brief overview of related scholarly activity in the emerging field of social media research. This is followed by a discussion of publication trends and methodologies applied in this systematic literature review.Kaplan and Haenlein (2010) defined social media as '' . . . a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of User Generated Content'' (p. 61). The emergence of social media technologies has been embraced by a growing number of users who post text messages, pictures, and videos online (Duggan, 2013;Duggan, Ellison, Lampe, Lenhart, & Madden, 2015). Reports of worldwide social networking activity suggest that there were 1.96 billion users in 2015 with predictions of 2.44 billion users by 2018 (Statista, 2015). Of all the social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are among the most popular ranking within the top 10 of a list of most heavily ...

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Qualitative and Mixed Methods Social Media Research

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2016

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…The SNS which has been used for this research has been Facebook and Xing. Facebook is an ambassador for private SNS which is socially organized (Ellison et al, 2007;Caers et al, 2013). Private SNS have the purpose to organize the private life of individuals e.g.…”

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The Difference of Social Network Sites Explained with the Employment Seeking Process

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Sloka²,

Paužuolienė³

2021

Regional Formation and Development Studies

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This paper describes the difference between business social network sites and private social network sites under consideration of the employment seeking process. The objective of the paper is to explain the different use of social network sites for different purpose. The use of social network sites can be explained with social capital theory which has been tested with the collected data. This paper test if the social capital theory can be expanded to explain social network sites under consideration of the employment seeking process for Xing as business SNS and Facebook as private SNS. The purpose of this article: According the survey to analyze the difference of social network sites explained with the employment seeking process. The research methods: analysis of scientific literature, interpretation, quantitative research, data analysis using SPSS program. The research method has been an online survey with 271 young SNS members who are participants for the research project. The sample has a gender bias which has to be under consideration by the interpretation of the results.

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“…Though men and women have been found to be equally likely to use these sites (Caers et al, 2013), research on gender differences in online social networking behavior is sparse (Thompson & Lougheed, 2012). Studies on SNS have focused on user characteristics, motives of use, the ways in which people present themselves, the effects of use on the users' lives and relationships, privacy and disclosure issues (see the overview on Facebook research by Wilson et al, 2012), with users' sex generally considered only as a descriptive demographic variable.…”

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“…Further, these platforms influence the exploration and formation of personal and social identity (Spies Shapiro & Margolin, 2014), allowing users to construct an online identity by strategically choosing what to disclose to those who might view their profiles and how to make these disclosures (Walther, 2007), while at the same time affording them with the opportunity to participate in social comparison and express aspects of the ideal-self (Manago, Graham, Greenfield, & Salimkhan, 2008), especially in the case of Facebook (Caers et al, 2013;Wilson, Gosling, & Graham, 2012). Adolescents and young adults use these sites to experiment with different selves in a process of creation of a kind of ideal self that may represent the person they would like to be (Zhao, Grasmuck, & Martin, 2008) or who they think they should be according to social norms (Back et al, 2010;Manago et al, 2008).…”

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