TY - JOUR
T1 - The third-person effect on Facebook
T2 - The significance of perceived proficiency
AU - Lev-On, Azi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - This study is based on an online survey of 503 participants who constitute a representative sample of Facebook users in Israel. The survey, based on eight pairs of items concerning potential Facebook risks, was used to explore the third-person effect on Facebook and Facebook users’ sense of their own and of other users’ vulnerability to these risks. It was found that participants believed that others were more vulnerable than themselves with respect to all eight Facebook risks. Nonetheless, when controlling for Facebook literacy, this main effect was eliminated, and only the interaction effect between the third-party effect and perceived Facebook literacy remained.
AB - This study is based on an online survey of 503 participants who constitute a representative sample of Facebook users in Israel. The survey, based on eight pairs of items concerning potential Facebook risks, was used to explore the third-person effect on Facebook and Facebook users’ sense of their own and of other users’ vulnerability to these risks. It was found that participants believed that others were more vulnerable than themselves with respect to all eight Facebook risks. Nonetheless, when controlling for Facebook literacy, this main effect was eliminated, and only the interaction effect between the third-party effect and perceived Facebook literacy remained.
KW - Facebook
KW - Internet
KW - Literacy
KW - Third-person effect
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84999670114&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tele.2016.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.tele.2016.07.002
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AN - SCOPUS:84999670114
SN - 0736-5853
VL - 34
SP - 252
EP - 260
JO - Telematics and Informatics
JF - Telematics and Informatics
IS - 4
ER -