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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

Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey, Louisa Ha
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 29
ISBN13: 9781522501596|ISBN10: 1522501592|EISBN13: 9781522501602
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0159-6.ch010
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Yartey, Franklin Nii Amankwah, and Louisa Ha. "Smartphones and Self-Broadcasting among College Students in an Age of Social Media." Psychology and Mental Health: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 228-256. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0159-6.ch010

APA

Yartey, F. N. & Ha, L. (2016). Smartphones and Self-Broadcasting among College Students in an Age of Social Media. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Psychology and Mental Health: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 228-256). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0159-6.ch010

Chicago

Yartey, Franklin Nii Amankwah, and Louisa Ha. "Smartphones and Self-Broadcasting among College Students in an Age of Social Media." In Psychology and Mental Health: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 228-256. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/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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