Making friends on Facebook: Common group membership as a central decision rule

Belentschikow, Valentin; Pfeffel, Kevin; Müller, Nicholas H.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2021.107040

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“…Research shows that Facebook groups have many advantages over text‐based knowledge‐sharing environments such as forums in terms of knowledge‐sharing, such as supporting the sharing of pictures and videos in addition to text, allowing closed group discussions, allowing to tag group members in knowledge‐sharing, increasing the interest and awareness of users with instant mobile notifications (Karaoglan Yilmaz, 2019; Lee & Lee, 2022; Moghavvemi et al, 2017). At the same time, the high rate of acceptance and use of Facebook among students makes it easier to use Facebook as an educational environment (Albayrak & Yildirim, 2015; Belentschikow et al, 2022; Raza et al, 2022).…”

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Examining the factors influencing students' knowledge‐sharing behavior in the social media‐based learning community

Yılmaz

2023

Psychology in the Schools

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Virtual learning communities can be formed through social media platforms, enabling the implementation of various learning activities. One of the essential components of virtual learning communities created on social media is the knowledge‐sharing behaviors (KSB) of students. Studies show that some students actively participate in the knowledge‐sharing processes, while some students do not actively participate in this process the observed phenomenon could potentially be attributed to the psycho‐social condition of the students. The main goal of this research was to establish the factors related to the KSB of the students in the virtual learning community created in the social media environment. The research investigated the structural associations among KSB, need for social approval (NfSA), happiness, self‐control and self‐management (SC‐SM), and dispositional hope (DH) structures. A total of 176 university students, engaged in the virtual learning community formed on social media, were included in the research. The research was implemented within the scope of Computing II course. Students used the virtual learning community created for the course during one academic semester and shared knowledge. In the study, relationships between structures were discovered by path analysis. Research results showed that the NfSA and DH were significantly related to KSB. According to the results, happiness and SC–SM did not significantly relate to KSB. It can be said that supporting students' social approval needs and increasing hope levels can be beneficial to improve students' KSB in virtual learning communities to be created in social media environments. According to another result of the study, it was observed that as the SC–SM levels of the students increased, their happiness and DH levels also increased. In line with the results obtained from the results, what can be done to improve the KSB of students in virtual learning communities was discussed, and various suggestions were made for researchers and practitioners.

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Examining the factors influencing students' knowledge‐sharing behavior in the social media‐based learning community

Yılmaz

2023

Psychology in the Schools

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“…Therefore, this affordance should be key to enlarging their friendship circles (Parks and Floyd, 1996), which also reflects the size of an individual's social network. Social networks are essential to an individual's social capital (Belentschikow et al, 2022;Su and Chan, 2017). According to SCT, social capital results in psychological well-being, perceived social support (Guo and Chen, 2022), satisfaction and relationship commitment (Cheng et al, 2020).…”

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Friend-connecting affordances: playing online games to contact friends

Liao

Huang

Dennis

et al. 2023

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PurposeOnline games are popular applications of Internet technology, with over 2.8 billion users worldwide. Many players engage in team gameplay, indicating that online games are suitable media through which players connect with their friends. However, past studies have not examined the ability of games to assist players in connecting with their friends, indicating a gap. To fill this gap, the authors propose a new concept, the friend-connecting affordance, which is the ability of an online game to enable players to contact friends within the game.Design/methodology/approachThe authors built a model to explain how games' friend-connecting affordances influence game loyalty. The authors gathered responses from 1,347 online players and used structural equation modeling to test the model.FindingsThe authors found that friend-connecting affordances and team participation influence game loyalty. Gaming intensity and gaming history can moderate the impact of friend-connecting affordances.Originality/valueThis new affordance can be realized through various game elements, offering unique and actionable insights to game makers. The authors also compared the friend-connecting affordances among a number of popular online games, providing insights specific to each game and increasing the practical value of the findings.

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“…The impact of these new communication tools on cross-cultural communication is significant. We will concentrate on these five effects on cross-cultural communication: information about people and cultures; interaction with those who are unlike us; interaction with those who are like us and can serve as communities of support; identity, culture, and technology; and differential access to communication technology [7].…”

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Integrating Intercultural Communication on Social Media and Learning Materials Encourages Speaking EFL Motivation

Butarbutar,

Weda,

Nur

et al. 2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Various tactics may be used to increase students' motivation to speak English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the Indonesian context. The goal of this research is to increase Indonesian learners' motivation to speak EFL by promoting intercultural communication (IC) on social media and in learning materials. Quantitative techniques were used in this study. Forty students from a single-state institution participated in the study. They belong to five distinct ethnic groups. They were requested to complete a distributed questionnaire to obtain reliable data, which were then analyzed using the Four-Likert scale. The research also found a correlation between intercultural communication on social media and learning materials, and the motivation to speak English as a foreign language. Furthermore, the findings suggest that a technology-integrated language curriculum is important for the globalized world. In addition, learners' understanding of intercultural communication and crisis identity avoidance was highlighted in the empirical correlation. However, a research-based online survey or virtual narrative inquiry to gather thousands of intercultural viewpoints for future studies is recommended for a small number of study participants. Other studies, like the ability to listen, write, and read, are also important enough to be thought about. In this vein, the current study calls for further research on the role of EFL teachers in the design of curriculum EFL online intercultural competence-oriented activities.

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Making friends on Facebook: Common group membership as a central decision rule

Cited by 6 publications

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Examining the factors influencing students' knowledge‐sharing behavior in the social media‐based learning community

Examining the factors influencing students' knowledge‐sharing behavior in the social media‐based learning community

Friend-connecting affordances: playing online games to contact friends

Integrating Intercultural Communication on Social Media and Learning Materials Encourages Speaking EFL Motivation

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