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Smartphones and Self-Broadcasting among College Students in an Age of Social Media

Smartphones and Self-Broadcasting among College Students in an Age of Social Media
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Author(s): Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey (University of Dubuque, USA)and Louisa Ha (Bowling Green State University, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 29
Source title: Psychology and Mental Health: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0159-6.ch010

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Abstract

This chapter examines the use of smartphones for self-broadcasting via social media among college students. Based on motivation and network externalities theories, our survey of a public university's college students confirmed our hypotheses that network size, years of experience using social media and the time spent on social media positively predict their frequency of self-broadcasting on their smartphones. The results suggest that 85.2% of college students self-broadcast at least once a month by updating their status on SNS and students are likely to self-broadcast within their network. Most students set their profile privacy setting as private or semi-private. But privacy setting does not affect self-broadcast frequency.

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