Why Students Use Social Networking Sites After Crisis Situations

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dc.contributorVirginia Tech. Department of Computer Science. Digital Library Research Laboratoryen
dc.contributor.authorSheetz, Steven D.en
dc.contributor.authorFox, Edward A.en
dc.contributor.authorFitzgerald, Andrewen
dc.contributor.authorPalmer, Seanen
dc.contributor.authorShoemaker, Donald J.en
dc.contributor.authorKavanaugh, Andrea L.en
dc.contributor.departmentDigital Library Research Laboratoryen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessed2014-09-05en
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-29T20:36:39Zen
dc.date.available2015-05-29T20:36:39Zen
dc.date.issued2011en
dc.description.abstractCommunities respond to tragedy by making virtuous use of social networking sites for a variety of purposes. We asked students to describe why they used a social networking site after the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, then evaluated their responses using content analysis. Students went predominately to Facebook (99%). Most (59%) of the 426 students that responded went there because their friends were already there, and to find out if their friends were OK (28%) (and to let them know they were OK). Ideas related to relationships occurred more frequently in the responses than ideas related to the website's features. However, the ease of use of the website was mentioned often (22%). The results suggest this emergent phenomenon will recur.en
dc.format.extent20 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSheetz, Steven D., Edward A. Fox, Andrew Fitzgerald, Sean Palmer, Donald J. Shoemaker, Andrea Kavanaugh. "Why Students Use Social Networking Sites After Crisis Situations". 2011.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/52855en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://eventsarchive.org/sites/default/files/WhySocNetInCrisisV8-CMC.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSocial networkingen
dc.subjectSocial mediaen
dc.subjectCrisesen
dc.subjectContent analysisen
dc.subjectQualitative dataen
dc.subjectSynchronous and asynchronous interactionen
dc.subjectInformation interfaces and presentationen
dc.subjectGroup and organization interfacesen
dc.titleWhy Students Use Social Networking Sites After Crisis Situationsen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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