Jessica Vitak

TL;DR: The role of social grooming and attention-signaling activities in shaping perceived access to resources in one's network as measured by bridging social capital is discussed and this new measure Facebook Relationship Maintenance Behaviors is discussed.

TL;DR: Results from a survey of undergraduate students at a large public university in the Midwestern United States conducted in the month prior to the election found that students tend to engage in lightweight political participation both on Facebook and in other venues, and two OLS regressions found that political activity on Facebook is a significant predictor of other forms of political participation.

TL;DR: This study aims to clarify inconsistencies regarding the term affordances by examining how affordances terminology is used in empirical research on communication and technology through an analysis of 82 communication-oriented scholarly works on affordances.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model including network composition, disclosures, privacy-based strategies, and social capital, and find that audience size and diversity impacts disclosure and use of advanced privacy settings.

TL;DR: How undergraduate students use the social network site Facebook to engage in classroom-related collaborative activities is examined to show how Facebook may be used as an informal tool that students use to organize their classroom experiences, and the factors that predict type of use are explored.