Follow the rules and no one will get hurt: performing boundary work to avoid negative interactions when using social network sites

Miller, Brian J.; Mundey, Peter

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2014.946433

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“…A comparative study of employees in the UK and Australia found that 60 per cent of employees stated that employers should not search for information online, regardless of the privacy settings applied by employees/jobseekers (McDonald et al ., ). In studies of social network site (SNS) users, three common norms have been identified: information that is too personal should not be shared; it is wrong to be sneaky or stalk other users; and people should not befriend users that they have not met (Trottier, ; Miller and Mundey, ; Vitak et al ., ).…”

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Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting recruiters

Backman

Hedenus²

2019

New Technol Work Employ

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This article addresses various ways that cybervetting recruiters (re)construct boundaries around the public–private division. Based on interviews with 37 recruiters in Sweden, we show how the practice of cybervetting is legitimised by the recruiters’ descriptions and accounts in relation to various notions of privacy and norms of information flow. We present this as a boundary work aided by especially two ways of framing information: the repertoire about accessible information and the repertoire of relevant information. These repertoires help define what information can be conceived of as public or private, and as legitimate versus unethical to search for and to use. Privacy is framed by employers as a responsibility, rather than a right, for social network site users. The findings also underline similarities and differences in jobseekers’ and employers’ norms of information flow, not least considering the right to online privacy.

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Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting recruiters

Backman

Hedenus²

2019

New Technol Work Employ

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“…Disclosure of information is one of the key components of relationship building [49]. Relatedly, the ease with which people can share and connect with others on SNS is one of the enchanting affordances that attract users to these sites [8]. Employees who open up to coworkers on integrative SNS and share details about their personal lives, thoughts, and desires indicate trust and allow coworkers who view their publications to discover common perspectives and behave in seemingly more authentic ways [18,50,51].…”

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“…One of the "enchanting affordances" [8] of integrative SNS is that they may help coworkers to see the whole person behind the coworker. As such, coworkers may build rich multiplex relationships in which they simultaneously enact work and nonwork roles and identities [9] .…”

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“…As such, coworkers may build rich multiplex relationships in which they simultaneously enact work and nonwork roles and identities [9] . However, the blurring of the boundaries, or multiple audience issue [10] can also increase risks of harassment, confidentiality breaches discrimination [8,11], privacy invasions [12,13] and interpersonal surveillance [14,15].…”

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“…Although scholars have called for research examining the overlap of online and offline relationships [8], little work has examined how connections with coworkers on integrative SNS such as Facebook may change workplace relationships. Our paper sets out to understand how coworkers' friendship-acts online (e.g., liking a post, commenting on a post [16]), and harmful behaviors (e.g., posting an offending comment [17]), may affect two constructs that are central for interpersonal relationships at work and likely to be influenced by interactions on SNS: feelings of closeness with one's coworkers [18], and the interpersonal component of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBI; [19]).…”

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Connections with Coworkers on Social Network Sites: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Ollier‐Malaterre¹,

Foucreault²

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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A large number of individuals are connected with their coworkers on social network sites (SNS) that are personal and professional (e.g., Facebook), with consequences on workplace relationships. Drawing on SNS, social identity and boundary management literatures, we surveyed 202 employees and found that coworkers' friendship-acts (e.g., liking, commenting) were positively associated with closeness to coworkers when coworkers were of the same age or older than the focal individual, and with organizational citizenship behaviors towards coworkers (OCBI) when coworkers were of the same age. Harmful behaviors from coworkers (e.g., disparaging comment) were negatively associated with closeness (but not with OBCI) when coworkers were older than the focal individual. In addition, preferences for the segmentation of one's professional and personal roles moderated the relationship between coworkers' friendship-acts and OCBI (but not closeness) such that the positive relationship was stronger when the focal individual had low (vs. high) preferences for segmentation.

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Emerging SNS use: the importance of social network sites for older American emerging adults

Miller

Mundey

2019

Journal of Youth Studies

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Follow the rules and no one will get hurt: performing boundary work to avoid negative interactions when using social network sites

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting recruiters

Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting recruiters

Connections with Coworkers on Social Network Sites: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Emerging SNS use: the importance of social network sites for older American emerging adults

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