Paper Info
Title
First-Generation Students and College: The Role of Facebook Networks as Information Sources
Abstract
Social network site (SNS) platforms have the potential to be effective information-seeking channels due to their technical and social affordances, such as the ability to broadcast content to a large group and to aggregate one's contacts. This study tests the impact of a Facebook app that allows users to visualize their network of Facebook Friends to see how it influences who adolescents identify as good sources of information about college. Comparing Friends selected by 24 high school seniors before and after viewing Facebook network visualizations reveals that first-generation students were more likely to select higher quality information sources among their Facebook Friends after exposure to the visualization. Our results suggest that social media can help users identify good human information sources by making hidden resources in one's network more visible.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2818048.2820074
CSCW
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social media,Facebook,social network sites,college access,first-generation,information seeking,network visualization
Graph drawing,World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Social network,Social media,Computer science,Information seeking,Visualization,Cyberpsychology,Affordance
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-3592-8
4
0.45
References 
Authors
22
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Grace YoungJoo Jeon1323.02
Nicole Ellison26051509.80
Bernie Hogan3396.99
Christine Greenhow41179.69