The demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants

The emergence of social network sites (SNSs) and their extraordinary expansion across the globe has articulated the crucial role computer-mediated communication now plays in human interactions. Though everyone seems caught-up in this new communication frenzy, the appears to be a significant dissimil...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Sarah Gambo, Bahire Ofe Özad
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Elsevier 2020
Materias:	Computer-mediated communication Social media Demographics Social network sites Online platforms SNS usage Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/d45e733997ed46e999b340a50946f015
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:d45e733997ed46e999b340a50946f015
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d45e733997ed46e999b340a50946f0152021-12-01T05:03:14ZThe demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants2451-958810.1016/j.chbr.2020.100016https://doaj.org/article/d45e733997ed46e999b340a50946f0152020-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958820300166https://doaj.org/toc/2451-9588The emergence of social network sites (SNSs) and their extraordinary expansion across the globe has articulated the crucial role computer-mediated communication now plays in human interactions. Though everyone seems caught-up in this new communication frenzy, the appears to be a significant dissimilarity and gaps in the demographics of SNS usage. The aforementioned subject has been the focus of much scholarly attention in recent years as scholars and researchers sought to understand and explain the issue. Most literature on this topic have been focused on the following preoccupations: How is SNSs usage distributed amongst various demographic groups, gender and SNS usage, and SNS and age factor. These issues constitute the focus of this review article. This paper undertakes a review of published research studies on demographic issues on social network sites. Three major findings surfaced from the inductive analysis of the study results: the demographic distribution of SNS usage presents a clear domination of youths and women; men and women have different motivation in their SNS usage with women pursuing specific targets and men being more general; and older people are more concerned with privacy in their social media usage than youths.Sarah GamboBahire Ofe ÖzadElsevierarticleComputer-mediated communicationSocial mediaDemographicsSocial network sitesOnline platformsSNS usageElectronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95PsychologyBF1-990ENComputers in Human Behavior Reports, Vol 2, Iss , Pp 100016- (2020)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Computer-mediated communication Social media Demographics Social network sites Online platforms SNS usage Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990
spellingShingle	Computer-mediated communication Social media Demographics Social network sites Online platforms SNS usage Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990 Sarah Gambo Bahire Ofe Özad The demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants
description	The emergence of social network sites (SNSs) and their extraordinary expansion across the globe has articulated the crucial role computer-mediated communication now plays in human interactions. Though everyone seems caught-up in this new communication frenzy, the appears to be a significant dissimilarity and gaps in the demographics of SNS usage. The aforementioned subject has been the focus of much scholarly attention in recent years as scholars and researchers sought to understand and explain the issue. Most literature on this topic have been focused on the following preoccupations: How is SNSs usage distributed amongst various demographic groups, gender and SNS usage, and SNS and age factor. These issues constitute the focus of this review article. This paper undertakes a review of published research studies on demographic issues on social network sites. Three major findings surfaced from the inductive analysis of the study results: the demographic distribution of SNS usage presents a clear domination of youths and women; men and women have different motivation in their SNS usage with women pursuing specific targets and men being more general; and older people are more concerned with privacy in their social media usage than youths.
format	article
author	Sarah Gambo Bahire Ofe Özad
author_facet	Sarah Gambo Bahire Ofe Özad
author_sort	Sarah Gambo
title	The demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants
title_short	The demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants
title_full	The demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants
title_fullStr	The demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants
title_full_unstemmed	The demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants
title_sort	demographics of computer-mediated communication: a review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/d45e733997ed46e999b340a50946f015
work_keys_str_mv	AT sarahgambo thedemographicsofcomputermediatedcommunicationareviewofsocialmediademographictrendsamongsocialnetworkingsitegiants AT bahireofeozad thedemographicsofcomputermediatedcommunicationareviewofsocialmediademographictrendsamongsocialnetworkingsitegiants AT sarahgambo demographicsofcomputermediatedcommunicationareviewofsocialmediademographictrendsamongsocialnetworkingsitegiants AT bahireofeozad demographicsofcomputermediatedcommunicationareviewofsocialmediademographictrendsamongsocialnetworkingsitegiants
_version_	1718405629851205632

The demographics of computer-mediated communication: A review of social media demographic trends among social networking site giants

Ejemplares similares