Balancing audience and privacy tensions on social network sites

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1485-1504

  Vitak, Jessica ^a   Blasiola, Stacy ^b   Patil, Sameer ^c   Litt, Eden ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary regulation; Context collapse; Facebook; Impression management; Privacy; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011554786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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