How Can You Not Be on Facebook?! A Digital Etnographic Exploratory Study of Portuguese Users
نویسنده
چکیده
Regardless of age, people are living their lives through social networks with Facebook leading the way: how much can one know about someone else’s life using Facebook pages, that is, one’s daily activities, thoughts and ideas, through the activity of sharing content and status updates? The main objective of this exploratory study is to find mass mingling trends among a sample of Portuguese adult Facebook users (N=18) and further, to find how much can one know about one’s life using this social network, to conclude that despite stereotypes of online creating isolation, people are living large parts of their lives online through social networks using also mobile Internet access to socialize or simply stay in touch.
منابع مشابه
An Exploratory Study on the Use of 'I Love You' in the American Context
This study explores the use of the English locution I love you in the American context. The data were collected through a focus discussion group and a survey questionnaire. 120 college undergraduate students from a large public American university participated in the study with 28 attending the focus discussion group and 92 completing the survey questionnaire. The findings indicated th...
متن کاملMass Media vs. the Mass of Media: A Study on the Human Nodes in a Social Network and their Chosen Messages
In Internet-based social networks, the nodes have the most pivotal role in the processes and outcomes of the networks. Whether they pay attention to a message in the network or ignore it defines the fate of the message. One message is shared and re-shared by millions of users and another is left forgotten. The current study tries to shed light on one aspect of the role of the users in a social ...
متن کاملTitle: Facebook Photo Tagging Culture and Practices Among Digital Natives
Social Networking Services (SNS) have gained immense popularity in developing countries like India, where digital natives are actively communicating on these platforms. Understanding the interaction between technology systems and digital natives, and proposing guidelines and recommendations for the development of better systems is highly valuable. Prior research examining users’ motivations and...
متن کاملنقش عوامل شخصیتی و انگیزشی در استفاده از فیسبوک
Introductoin: Nowadays Facebook is known as one of the most prominent social networking sites. Several factors including the personality and individual motivations can be effective in manner and extent of using this social networking site by users. Method: This study was designed to investigate the role of users' personality and motivational factors in using Facebook. Participants were 540 mem...
متن کاملTheoretical Framework for People's Space Rights From the Perspective of Jurisprudence and Islamic Law
Urban space in the present age is a finite and very limited commodity, which is justly exploited in the area of emerging jurisdiction in the field of architectural and urban law. By applying this penal law to the discretion, the measurement can be made by using effective services, in the public space of the city. Users of architecture, adding special Brosbin, (virtualization that can be done ...
متن کامل