Paper Info
Title
Engaging with Political and Social Issues on Facebook in College Life.
Abstract
College students are exposed to a vast amount of information on political and social issues through social media. We studied how college students engage with political and social issues on Facebook in a weeklong study with 50 participants using diary entries and interviews. The interviews revealed a duality of benefits for using Facebook for news and they also revealed challenges of self-presentation around news. Benefits included gaining multiple perspectives and enabling social sense making, providing personal relevance and convenience of access, and the opportunity for social engagement. Impression management and disclosure concerns strongly influence some people to refrain from commenting or sharing news. We discuss the challenges that context collapse poses for Facebook news readers. We suggest design ideas and future directions to encourage more balanced participation with news among college students.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/2998181.2998295
CSCW
Keywords
Field
DocType
Facebook, political engagement, social media, news consumption, impression management, context collapse
Social psychology,Impression management,Social media,Political engagement,Social issues,Computer science,Public relations,Knowledge management,Cyberpsychology,Social engagement,Politics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
19
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yiran Wang1627.68
Gloria Mark22006178.23