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Privacy and Disclosure in a Social Networking Community

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Facebook; Impression management; Relationship formation; Self-disclosure; Self-presentation; Social interaction; Social network sites; SNSs

Glossary

Context collapse:

When multiple distinct audiences (e.g., family, coworkers, friends) are flattened into a single homogenous group; occurs in offline (e.g., wedding) and online (e.g., Facebook “Friends”) environments

Impression management:

Sum of behaviors individuals engage in to either control or manipulate attributions other people form about them. See also self-presentation

Privacy:

Ability of individuals to seclude themselves – or information about themselves – from the public; ability to selectively control information distribution about oneself

Self-disclosure:

Form of self-presentation; according to Wheeless and Grotz (1976), selfdisclosure is “any message about the self that a person communicates with another” (p. 338)

Self-presentation:

Process by which individuals reveal and/or conceal specific aspects of the self to...

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  1. College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Jessica Vitak

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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    Felix Wu

  2. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden

    Henric Johnson

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Vitak, J. (2017). Privacy and Disclosure in a Social Networking Community. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_206-1

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