Facebook-to-Facebook: online communication and economic cooperation

Facebook-to-Facebook: online communication and economic cooperation

Direct face-to-face communication has traditionally been found to be more effective for fostering economic cooperation than any form of indirect, mediated communication. We inquire whether this is still the case since most young adults routinely use texting and online social media to communicate with each other. We find that young adults in our laboratory public goods experiment are just as ade...

From Facebook Regrets to Facebook Privacy Nudges

Social anxiety, attributes of online communication and self-disclosure across private and public Facebook communication

This study expands on the ‘internet-attribute-perception’ model that explains how online attributes (i.e. reduced cues and controllability) and the disinhibition effect mediate the relationship between personal characteristics and online self-disclosure. The current study tested this model for two distinct modes of Facebook communication: private and public, focussing on the personal characteri...

Facebook and political communication -- Macedonian case

Analysis how to use Internet influence to the process of political communication, marketing and the management of public relations, what kind of online communication methods are used by political parties, and to assess satisfaction, means of communication and the services they provide to their party's voters (people) and other interest groups and whether social networks can affect the political...

Facebook: Reconstructing Communication And Decostructing Privacy Law?

The exponential growth of Facebook during the last year, was followed by a vital public discourse and often an alert with regard to the impacts of this popular SNS on communicational and behavioural attitudes and users’ rights. In this Paper we focus on privacy issues relating to Facebook. We attempt to define the “phenomenon Facebook” as a social and communicational ecosystem in the context of...