The promise of audience transparency. Exploring users’ perceptions and behaviors towards visualizations of networked audiences on Facebook

Abstract

a b s t r a c tThe presence of multiple audiences and the collapse of boundaries between them in Facebook make it difficult for users to know and to control who has access to their online contributions. Previous research has shown how visualizations of Facebook friends are useful, but mainly focused on the instrumental goal of controlling access. It is unclear, however, what value users themselves see in visualizations and whether knowledge and/or control are important to them. In this research, these questions were studied by evaluating FreeBu, a semi-automatic and interactive grouping technology that visualizes Facebook friends. The results indicate that audience visualizations are especially perceived useful for grouping and reflection purposes. Moreover, we found how users are attracted to larger groups, those with whom they communicate more, bridges and outliers in their network. The combined findings suggest that awareness is considered at least as important as control. Therefore, a shift from audience control to audience transparency is recommended.

FriendGroupVR: Design Concepts Using Virtual Reality to Organize Social Network Friends

“…As a compensation, a e 25 Amazon voucher was raffled off among all participants. The age ranged from 19 to 50 (mean=26.67, SD=5.474), representing a good portion of typical social network users 7 . When asked about their experiences with virtual reality, 12 people had no experience (40%)and 5 almost no experience (16.7%).…”

“…Research tried to tackle this problem by creating new design concepts with an increased usability in order to reduce the mental effort to perform the friend sorting task. Some of the approaches use graph-based interfaces [7,19], where groups are represented by vertices with the corresponding friends attached as their leaves; others rely on a conventional list-based design [18] improved by an auto-grouping algorithm based on community detection [2]. Nevertheless, the usage of virtual reality to enhance the usability of social network friend sorting on the one hand, and making the task more interesting and enjoyable by enhancing the user experience on the other hand, has not been discussed in research so far to the best of our knowledge.…”

Helping Users Tackle Algorithmic Threats on Social Media: A Multimedia Research Agenda

“…A basic approach is to show users their profile and content from the viewpoint of other users or the public [8,123]. More general solutions propose user interface design elements (color-coding schemes, charts, graphs) to visualize which content can be viewed by others [58,96,132,151,185].…”

Percepción de las revistas científicas españolas hacia el acceso abierto, open peer review y altmetrics

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