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Reasons for Facebook usage: Data from 46 Countries
Authors :
Kowal, Marta Sorokowski, Piotr Sorokowska, Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Małgorzata Pisanski, Katarzyna Oleszkiewicz, Anna Aavik, Toivo Akello, Grace Alm, Charlotte Amjad, Naumana Anjum, Afifa Asao, Kelly Atama, Chiemezie S. Atamtürk Duyar, Derya Ayebare, Richard Bendixen, Mon Bensafia, Aicha Bizumic, Bori Boussena, Mahmoud Buss, David M. Butovskaya, Marina Can, Seda Cantarero, Katarzyna Carrier, Antonin Cetinkaya, Hakan Conroy-Beam, Daniel Varella, Marco A. C. Cueto, Rosa M. Czub, Marcin Dronova, Daria Dural, Seda Duyar, Izzet Ertugrul, Berna Espinosa, Agustín Estevan, Ignacio Esteves, Carla S. Frackowiak, Tomasz Contreras-Graduño, Jorge Guemaz, Farida Hromatko, Ivana Hui, Chin-Ming Herak, Iskra Jaafar, Jas L. Jiang, Feng Kafetsios, Konstantino Kavcic, Tina Kennair, Leif Edward Ottesen Kervyn, Nicola Köbis, Nils C. Láng, Andrá Lennard, Georgina R. León, Ernesto Lindholm, Torun Lopez, Giulia Madallh Alhabahba, Mohammad Mailhos, Alvaro Manesi, Zoi Martínez, Rocío Mckerchar, Sarah L. Meskó, Norbert Misra, Girishwar Moc Lan, Hoang Monaghan, Conal Mora, Emanuel C. Moya Garófano, Alba Musil, Bojan Natividade, Jean C. Nizharadze, George Oberzaucher, Elisabeth Omar Fauzee, Mohd S. Onyishi, Ike E. Özener, Bari Pagani, Ariela Francesca Pakalniskiene, Vilmante Parise, Miriam Pazhoohi, Farid Perun, Mariia Pisanski, Annette Plohl, Nejc Popa, Camelia Prokop, Pavol Rizwan, Muhammad Sainz, Mario Salkičević, Svjetlana Sargautyte, Ruta Schmehl, Susanne Senyk, Oksana Shaikh, Rizwana Sharad, Shivantika Simonetti, Franco Tadinac, Meri Thi Khanh Ha, Truong Thi Linh, Trinh Ugalde González, Karina Van Luot, Nguyen Vauclair, Christin-Melanie Vega, Luis D. Yoo, Gyesook Yordanova Stoyanova, Stanislava Zadeh, Zainab F. Zupančič, Maja Lopez, Giulia (ORCID:0000-0002-9188-0650) Pagani, Ariela F. (ORCID:0000-0002-7149-9350) Parise, Miriam (ORCID:0000-0003-2150-6636) Kowal, Marta Sorokowski, Piotr Sorokowska, Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Małgorzata Pisanski, Katarzyna Oleszkiewicz, Anna Aavik, Toivo Akello, Grace Alm, Charlotte Amjad, Naumana Anjum, Afifa Asao, Kelly Atama, Chiemezie S. Atamtürk Duyar, Derya Ayebare, Richard Bendixen, Mon Bensafia, Aicha Bizumic, Bori Boussena, Mahmoud Buss, David M. Butovskaya, Marina Can, Seda Cantarero, Katarzyna Carrier, Antonin Cetinkaya, Hakan Conroy-Beam, Daniel Varella, Marco A. C. Cueto, Rosa M. Czub, Marcin Dronova, Daria Dural, Seda Duyar, Izzet Ertugrul, Berna Espinosa, Agustín Estevan, Ignacio Esteves, Carla S. Frackowiak, Tomasz Contreras-Graduño, Jorge Guemaz, Farida Hromatko, Ivana Hui, Chin-Ming Herak, Iskra Jaafar, Jas L. Jiang, Feng Kafetsios, Konstantino Kavcic, Tina Kennair, Leif Edward Ottesen Kervyn, Nicola Köbis, Nils C. Láng, Andrá Lennard, Georgina R. León, Ernesto Lindholm, Torun Lopez, Giulia Madallh Alhabahba, Mohammad Mailhos, Alvaro Manesi, Zoi Martínez, Rocío Mckerchar, Sarah L. Meskó, Norbert Misra, Girishwar Moc Lan, Hoang Monaghan, Conal Mora, Emanuel C. Moya Garófano, Alba Musil, Bojan Natividade, Jean C. Nizharadze, George Oberzaucher, Elisabeth Omar Fauzee, Mohd S. Onyishi, Ike E. Özener, Bari Pagani, Ariela Francesca Pakalniskiene, Vilmante Parise, Miriam Pazhoohi, Farid Perun, Mariia Pisanski, Annette Plohl, Nejc Popa, Camelia Prokop, Pavol Rizwan, Muhammad Sainz, Mario Salkičević, Svjetlana Sargautyte, Ruta Schmehl, Susanne Senyk, Oksana Shaikh, Rizwana Sharad, Shivantika Simonetti, Franco Tadinac, Meri Thi Khanh Ha, Truong Thi Linh, Trinh Ugalde González, Karina Van Luot, Nguyen Vauclair, Christin-Melanie Vega, Luis D. Yoo, Gyesook Yordanova Stoyanova, Stanislava Zadeh, Zainab F. Zupančič, Maja Lopez, Giulia (ORCID:0000-0002-9188-0650) Pagani, Ariela F. (ORCID:0000-0002-7149-9350) Parise, Miriam (ORCID:0000-0003-2150-6636)
Publication Year :
2020
Abstract
Seventy-nine percent of internet users use Facebook, and on average they access Facebook eight times a day (Greenwood et al., 2016). To put these numbers into perspective, according to Clement (2019), around 30% of the world’s population uses this Online Social Network (OSN) site. Despite the constantly growing body of academic research on Facebook (Chou et al., 2009; Back et al., 2010; Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010; McAndrew and Jeong, 2012; Wilson et al., 2012; Krasnova et al., 2017), there remains limited research regarding the motivation behind Facebook use across different cultures. Our main goal was to collect data from a large cross-cultural sample of Facebook users to examine the roles of sex, age, and, most importantly, cultural differences underlying Facebook use.
Details
Database :
OAIster
Notes :
English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1196083420
Document Type :
Electronic Resource