TY - GEN
T1 - International students' use of facebook vs. a home country site
AU - Yuan, Chien Wen
AU - Setlock, Leslie D.
AU - Fussell, Susan R.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Previous work on social network sites (SNSs) tends to examine use of a single site, such as Facebook. In this survey study, we examined international students' motivations for participation in Facebook versus a site (Renren or Cyworld) from their own country. We anticipated that use of Facebook would be driven by desires to expand bridging social capital, whereas use of the home country site would be driven primarily by the desire to maintain existing bonds. A survey of 335 Chinese and Korean students in the U.S. showed that contrary to our expectations, desires to develop both bridging and bonding social ties were associated with greater intensity of activity on Facebook and the home country site. Greater intentions to interact with people from their own home country were associated with greater interaction on the home country site. Both intensity of site use and number of friends were higher for Korean than Chinese respondents. We conclude with some thoughts as to how our findings might be used to help people manage social relationships across two different sites in different countries.
AB - Previous work on social network sites (SNSs) tends to examine use of a single site, such as Facebook. In this survey study, we examined international students' motivations for participation in Facebook versus a site (Renren or Cyworld) from their own country. We anticipated that use of Facebook would be driven by desires to expand bridging social capital, whereas use of the home country site would be driven primarily by the desire to maintain existing bonds. A survey of 335 Chinese and Korean students in the U.S. showed that contrary to our expectations, desires to develop both bridging and bonding social ties were associated with greater intensity of activity on Facebook and the home country site. Greater intentions to interact with people from their own home country were associated with greater interaction on the home country site. Both intensity of site use and number of friends were higher for Korean than Chinese respondents. We conclude with some thoughts as to how our findings might be used to help people manage social relationships across two different sites in different countries.
KW - Computer mediated communication
KW - Social network sites
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U2 - 10.1145/2559206.2581198
DO - 10.1145/2559206.2581198
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84900561482
SN - 9781450324748
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2101
EP - 2106
BT - CHI EA 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014
Y2 - 26 April 2014 through 1 May 2014
ER -