Mediating Social Media: Examining User Risk Perception on Facebook

This thesis explores how social networking sites are changing the way individuals socialize in everyday life, and how users mediate this social media. The hypothesis explored is that Facebook user’s perception of risk, when using the site, is related to how they frame the technology. Drawing on con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borbey, Daniel
Other Authors: Lopez, José
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19680
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4332