Name
Title | ||
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"Why won't you be my Facebook friend?": strategies for managing context collapse in the workplace |
Abstract | ||
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This poster presents a preliminary analysis of data collected from staff personnel at a large U. S. university regarding their use of the social network site (SNS) Facebook in their personal and professional lives. Sixty-five percent of online American adults now have a profile on a SNS, and Facebook is increasingly utilized in organizational settings such as universities as a tool for information dissemination, recruiting, and promotion of the organization and its programs. Analysis of interview data (N = 26) found that while social media outlets like Facebook offer a number of advantages for reaching diverse populations, navigating work/life boundaries on Facebook was a concern for many participants. Through the lens of context collapse---the flattening of multiple distinct audiences into a singular group---we explicate these concerns, focusing on participants' strategies for maintaining boundaries between their personal and professional lives. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1145/2132176.2132286 | iConference 2011 |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
information dissemination,social network site,context collapse,interview data,professional life,preliminary analysis,sixty-five percent,large u. s. university,social media outlet,facebook friend,diverse population,work,program analysis,impression management,data collection,social media | Impression management,Social media,Political science,Social network,Public relations,Cyberpsychology,Information Dissemination | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
17 | 1.28 | 2 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Vitak | 1 | 648 | 39.25 |
| Cliff Lampe | 2 | 3986 | 342.89 |
| Rebecca Gray | 3 | 282 | 12.33 |
| Nicole Ellison | 4 | 6051 | 509.80 |