Facets of Facebook: Use and Users
by Kathrin Knautz, Katsiaryna S Baran
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Ltd 2016
ISBN/ASIN: 3110419351
Number of pages: 280
Description:
Written by leading scholars investigating the impact of Web 2.0., this collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles about Facebook. It looks into facets of users, such as age, sex, and culture, and into facets of use, e.g. privacy behavior after the Snowden affair, unfriending on Facebook, or Facebook addiction, as well as into quality perceptions.
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