Family Communication, Privacy, and Facebook
Keywords:
Family Communication, Social Networking Sites, Facebook, PrivacyAbstract
Four focus groups were conducted to explore how college students communicate with family members through Facebook. Communication Privacy Management served as the theoretical basis for the analysis, which suggested students balance privacy concerns with a desire to maintain and strengthen familial relationships. Participants described largely positive experiences communicating with family members on Facebook.References
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Baxter, L. A., & Montgomery, B. M. (1996). Relating: Dialogues and Dialectics. New York: Guilford.
Beer, D. (2008). Social network(ing) sites . . . revisiting the story so far: A response to danah boyd and Nicole Ellison. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13, 516-529. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2008.00408.x.
Boyd, D. (2008). Facebook’s privacy trainwreck: Exposure, invasion and social convergence. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 14(1),13-20. doi: 10.1177/1354856507084416.
Boyd, D. M., & Ellison, N. B. (2008). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13, 210-230. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x.
Brandtzaeg, P. B., Luders, M., & Skjetne, J. (2010). Too many Facebook “friends”? Content sharing and sociability versus the need for privacy in social network sites. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 26, 1006-1030. doi: 10.1080/10447318.2010.516719.
Butler, E., McCann, E., and Thomas, J. (2011). Privacy setting awareness on Facebook and its effect on user-posted content. Human Communication, 14(1), 39-55.
Chaulk, K., & Jones, T. (2011). Online obsessive relational intrusion: Further concerns about Facebook. Journal of Family Violence, 26, 245-254. doi: 10.1007/s10896-011-9360-x.
Child, J. T., Pearson, J. C., & Petronio, S. (2009). Blogging, communication, and privacy management: Development of the blogging privacy management measure. Journal of the American Society For Information Science and Technology, 60(10), 2079-2094. doi: 10.1002/asi.21122.
Debatin, B., Lovejoy, J. P., Horn, A., & Hughes, B. N. (2009). Facebook and online privacy: Attitudes, behaviors, and unintended consequences. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15, 83-108.
DeVerniero, R. A., & Hosek, A. M. (2011). Students’ perceptions and communicative management of instructors’ online self-disclosure. Communication Quarterly, 59, 428-449. doi: 10.1080/01463373.2011.597275.
Fontana, A., & Frey, J. H. (1993). Interviewing: The art of science. In H. K., Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research (pp. 361-376). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Kornblum, J. (2007, October 4). Teens to parents: It’s our Facebook. USA Today. Retreived October 13, 2007 from http://www.usatoday.com.
Mazer, J. P., Murphy, R. E., & Simonds, C. J. (2007). I’ll see you on Facebook: The effects of computer-mediated teacher self-disclosure on student motivation, affective learning, and classroom climate. Communication Education, 56, 1-17.
Morgan, D. L. (1996). Focus groups. Annual Review of Sociology, 22, 129-152.
Nosko, A., Wood, E., & Molema, S. (2010). All about me: Disclosure in online profiles: The case of Facebook. Computers in Human Behavior, 26, 406-418. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2009.11.012.
Petronio, S. (2002). Boundaries of privacy: Dialectics of disclosure. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Petronio, S. (2007). Translational research endeavors and the practices of communication privacy management. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 35(3), 218-222. doi: 10.1080/00909880701422443.
Petronio, S., & Dunham, W. T. (2008). Communication privacy management theory: Significance for interpersonal communication. In L. A. Baxter & D. O. Braithwaite (Eds.), Engaging Theories in interpersonal communication: Multiple perspectives (pp. 309-322). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Petronio, S., Jones, S., & Morr, M. C. (2003). Family privacy dilemmas: Managing communication boundaries within family groups. In L. R. Frey (Ed.), Group communication in context: Studies of bona fide groups (2nd ed.) (pp. 23-55). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Press, A. L., & Cole, E. R. (1995). Reconciling faith and fact: Pro-life women discuss media, science and the abortion debate. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 12, 380-402.
Rawlins, W. (1992). Friendship matters: Communication, dialectics and the life course. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Southwell, B. G., Blake, S. H., & Torres, A. (2005). Lessons on focus group methodology from a science television news project. Technical Communication, 52, 187-193.
Sutter, J. D. (2009, April 13). All in the Facebook family: Older generations join Facebook networks. CNN.com. Retrieved May 27, 2009, from http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/13/social.network.older/index.html.
Tom Tong, S., Van Der Heide, B., Langwell, L., & Walther, J. B. (2008). Too much of a good thing? The relationship between number of friends and interpersonal impressions on Facebook. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13, 531-549. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2008.00409.x.
Tufekci, Z. (2008). Can you see me now? Audience and disclosure regulation in online social network sites. Bulletin of Science and Technology, 28(1), 20-36. doi: 10.1177/0270467607311484.
West, A., Lewis, J., & Currie, P. (2009). Students’ Facebook “friends”: Public and private spheres. Journal of Youth Studies, 12(6), 615-627. doi: 10.1080/13676260902970752.
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