Paper Info
Title
A tale of two sites: Dual social network site use and social network development.
Abstract
Previous work on social network sites (SNSs) has extensively examined Facebook use. Grounded in the scholarship of social capital and social relationship maintenance, we examined international students’ participation with Facebook versus a SNS in their home-country (Renren or Cyworld). We anticipated that social network building on Facebook would be driven by desires to expand bridging social capital, whereas SNS use on Renren/Cyworld would function to maintain existing bonds. A survey of 335 Chinese and Korean students in the U.S. showed that when given multiple choices of SNSs, the affordances of SNSs are sustained across cultures, networks, and sites. We conclude with thoughts as to how our findings might be used to help people manage social relationships across two different sites in their home country and new country of residence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.chb.2017.04.011
Computers in Human Behavior
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social network sites,Social capital,Cross-cultural interaction,Computer-mediated communication,Interpersonal relationships
Social psychology,Social capital,Scholarship,Social network,Interpersonal relationship,Bridging (networking),Psychology,Computer-mediated communication,Affordance,Residence
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
74
0747-5632
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
19
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tina Chien-Wen Yuan100.68
Susan R. Fussell22266208.15