The Relationship Between Unwillingness-to-Communicate and Students’ Facebook Use

Sheldon, Pavica

doi:10.1027/1864-1105.20.2.67

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“…Sheldon [19] found that (in terms of Facebook use) people who are more involved in online relationships are those who are willing to communicate in real life. Lu and Hsiao [14] found that extraverts think more highly of the social value of SNS than do introverts.…”

Section: Loneliness and Sns Usagementioning

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It is not for fun: An examination of social network site usage

Ryan

Prybutok

et al. 2012

Information & Management

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A B S T R A C TSocial networking sites (SNS) have become a significant component of people's daily lives and have revolutionized the ways that business is conducted, from product development and marketing to operation and human resource management. However, there have been few systematic studies that ask why people use such systems. To try to determine why, we proposed a model based on uses and gratifications theory. Hypotheses were tested using PLS on data collected from 148 SNS users. We found that user utilitarian (rational and goal-oriented) gratifications of immediate access and coordination, hedonic (pleasure-oriented) gratifications of affection and leisure, and website social presence were positive predictors of SNS usage. While prior research focused on the hedonic use of SNS, we explored the predictive value of utilitarian factors in SNS. Based on these findings, we suggest a need to focus on the SNS functionalities to provide users with both utilitarian and hedonic gratifications, and suggest incorporating appropriate website features to help users evoke a sense of human contact in the SNS context.

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Section: Loneliness and Sns Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

It is not for fun: An examination of social network site usage

Ryan

Prybutok

et al. 2012

Information & Management

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“…This is an example of the homophily principle, which states that people with related attributes, such as age, interests, and personality, form similar ties [75]. Analyses of [76][77][78][79][80] are just additional examples of the excellent body of work carried out by researchers in order to better understand the existing correlation between personality and social media platforms.…”

Section: Social Media Platforms As Sources To Deriving Personality Trmentioning

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TwitPersonality: Computing Personality Traits from Tweets Using Word Embeddings and Supervised Learning

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Abstract:We are what we do, like, and say. Numerous research efforts have been pushed towards the automatic assessment of personality dimensions relying on a set of information gathered from social media platforms such as list of friends, interests of musics and movies, endorsements and likes an individual has ever performed. Turning this information into signals and giving them as inputs to supervised learning approaches has resulted in being particularly effective and accurate in computing personality traits and types. Despite the demonstrated accuracy of these approaches, the sheer amount of information needed to put in place such a methodology and access restrictions make them unfeasible to be used in a real usage scenario. In this paper, we propose a supervised learning approach to compute personality traits by only relying on what an individual tweets about publicly. The approach segments tweets in tokens, then it learns word vector representations as embeddings that are then used to feed a supervised learner classifier. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach by measuring the mean squared error of the learned model using an international benchmark of Facebook status updates. We also test the transfer learning predictive power of this model with an in-house built benchmark created by twenty four panelists who performed a state-of-the-art psychological survey and we observe a good conversion of the model while analyzing their Twitter posts towards the personality traits extracted from the survey.

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“…Erdoğan (2008) in his study found that increased Internet usage and Internet attitudes were related to Turkish adolescents' loneliness. On the other hand, Sheldon (2008) examined the relationship between unwillingness to communicate in interpersonal communication and Facebook use; she found people who were willing to communicate in social settings were also the ones who were active in online relationships. Miyata and Kobayashi (2008) found in their studies that people's abundance of social ties increases their use of personal computers and mobile phones for e-mailing them.…”

Section: The Rich Gets Richer Vs the Poor Gets Richer Hypothesismentioning

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The Investigation of Social Communication Apprehension and Motives for Social Network Sites Usage

Celebi¹

2015

Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi

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The main purpose of this study is to investigate the possible connection between social network sites (SNSs) usage and communication apprehensiveness or communication easiness. Survey was conducted (N=229) to find a possible connection between communication apprehension or easiness and the use of SNSs in addition to the motives for the use of some popular SNSs. The survey was conducted at a private university in Turkey and probability sampling was used to select the sample from the population. It was found that socially communicative individuals connected to SNSs for long hours. Facebook users were drawn by two leading motives to use Facebook: relaxing entertainment and professional advancement. Expressive information sharing was the main reason why users connected to Twitter. The motives for using Google+ were meeting with new people, and habitual pass time-companionship. Escapism and habitual pass time-companionship motivate individuals to use SNSs more frequently and for long hours. On the other hand, individuals who have a need for 'meeting new people' had more number of SNSs. The findings were discussed by using several theoretical perspectives (e.g., the rich get richer, and U&G) in the results section and included practical recommendations and further suggestions. Sosyal İletişim Endişesi ve Sosyal Ağları Kullanma Motivasyonlarının İncelenmesi ÖzBu çalışmanın temel amacı sosyal ağ kullanımı ile iletişim kaygısı veya iletişim kolaylığı arasında mümkün olabilecek bir bağlantıyı araştırmaktır. Popüler olan bazı sosyal ağların yanısıra sosyal ağları kullanma kolaylığı ile iletişim kaygısı arasında var olabilecek bir bağlantıyı bulabilmek için anket uygulanmıştır (N=229). Anket çalışması Türkiye'de özel bir üniversitede yapılmış ve olasılıklı örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak örneklem oluşturulmuştur. Sosyal açıdan konuşkan bireylerin sosyal ağlara daha uzun süreyle bağlandıkları bulunmuştur. Eğlendirirken dinlendiren ve mesleki gelişim olmak üzere iki tane önde gelen motivasyon Facebook kullanıcılarını Facebook'a yönlendiren nedenlerdir. Anlatımsal bilgi paylaşımı, kullanıcıların Twitter'a bağlanmalarının temel nedenidir. Google+ kullanma motivasyonları ise yeni insanlarla tanışma ve arkadaşlık ederek alışkanlığa bağlı zaman geçirmedir. Bir şeylerden kaçış ve arkadaşlık ederek alışkanlığa bağlı zaman geçirme motivasyonları, kişilerin sosyal ağları daha sık ve daha uzun süre kullanmalarına neden olmaktadır.Öte yandan, yeni insanlarla tanışma ihtiyacı olan bireyler daha fazla sayıda sosyal ağ üyesi. Sonuçlar kısmında bulgular birkaç teorik perspektif kullanılarak tartışılmış (örneğin: varlıklı daha da varlıklı olur ve kullanımlar ve doyumlar) ve uygulamaya yönelik ve ileriye yönelik öneriler yapılmıştır.Anahtar Kelimeler: İletişim kaygısı, sosyal ağlar, motivasyonlar, kullanımlar ve doyumlar ve sosyal medya davranışları.

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The Relationship Between Unwillingness-to-Communicate and Students’ Facebook Use

Cited by 405 publications

References 30 publications

It is not for fun: An examination of social network site usage

It is not for fun: An examination of social network site usage

TwitPersonality: Computing Personality Traits from Tweets Using Word Embeddings and Supervised Learning

The Investigation of Social Communication Apprehension and Motives for Social Network Sites Usage

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