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Relationships and social rules: Teens’ social network and other ICT selection practices
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v 63(6), pp 1108-1124
Jun 2012
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Abstract
The issue of how teens choose social networks and information communication technologies (ICT's) for personal communication is complex. This study focused on describing how U.S. teens from a highly technological suburban high school select ICT's for personal communication purposes. Two research questions guided the study: (a) What factors influence high school seniors’ selection of online social networks and other ICT's for everyday communication? (b) How can social network theory (SNT) help to explain how teens select online social networks and other ICT's for everyday communication purposes? Using focus groups, a purposive sample of 45 teens were asked to discuss (a) their preferred methods for communicating with friends and family and why, (b) the reasons why they chose to engage (or not to engage) in online social networking, (c) how they selected ICT's for social networking and other communication purposes, and (d) how they decided whom to accept as online “friends.” Findings indicated that many factors influenced participants’ ICT selection practices including six major categories of selection factors: relationship factors, information/communication factors, social factors, systems factors, self‐protection factors, and recipient factors. SNT was also helpful in explaining how “friendship” was a major determining factor in their communication media and platform choices.
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- Title
- Relationships and social rules: Teens’ social network and other ICT selection practices
- Creators
- Denise E Agosto - Drexel UniversityJune Abbas - University of OklahomaRobin Naughton - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v 63(6), pp 1108-1124
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 17
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000304133900004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84861337022
- Other Identifier
- 991014976816104721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Information Systems
- Information Science & Library Science