Glossary
- Context collapse:
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When multiple distinct audiences (e.g., family, coworkers, friends) are flattened into a single homogenous group; occurs in offline (e.g., wedding) and online (e.g., Facebook “Friends”) environments
- Impression management:
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Sum of behaviors individuals engage in to either control or manipulate attributions other people form about them. See also self-presentation
- Privacy:
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Ability of individuals to seclude themselves – or information about themselves – from the public; ability to selectively control information distribution about oneself
- Self-disclosure:
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Form of self-presentation; according to Wheeless and Grotz (1976), selfdisclosure is “any message about the self that a person communicates with another” (p. 338)
- Self-presentation:
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Process by which individuals reveal and/or conceal specific aspects of the self to...
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Vitak, J. (2018). Privacy and Disclosure in a Social Networking Community. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_206
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