Disclosure and Use of Privacy Settings in Facebook<sup>TM</sup>Profiles: Evaluating the Impact of Media Context and Gender

• 作者: Amanda Nosko Domenica De Pasquale Eileen Wood Karin Archer Lucia Zivcakova Seija Molema
• 来源期刊: 社交网络(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: FacebookTM SOCIAL Communication SOCIAL Networking DISCLOSURE PRIVACY SETTINGS Media Context GENDER
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（1）
• 页码范围: 1-8
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

The present study examined disclosure and use of privacy settings in online social networking profiles as a function of the media context (i.e., online versus hard copy (paper and pencil) FacebookTM profiles). Gender was also examined. Overall, participants disclosed more information when constructing a profile for another person when using a hard copy paper and pencil format than an online context. Gender differences were not uniform across media contexts, however, in contrast to traditional disclosure theory, females censored their disclosures more so than males but only for some topics. Only 20% of the sample increased their use of privacy settings. Consistent with patterns of disclosure, descriptive comparison suggests that more settings were employed in the paper and pencil than online context and more privacy settings were employed by females.