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"They are like personalized mini-Googles": Seeking Information on Facebook Groups

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Title:"They are like personalized mini-Googles": Seeking Information on Facebook Groups
Authors:Mudliar, Preeti
Raval, Noopur
Keywords:Social Media and Communities
facebook groups, ELIS, hyperlocal, sociotechnical, social media
Date Issued:03 Jan 2018
Abstract:Our study reports on everyday life information search (ELIS) practice using Facebook Groups. While previous research has examined social Q&A in the context of status message question asking (SMQA) on Facebook and Twitter, we discuss how people step outside their personal networks to find answers to questions while staying within the Facebook environment. We investigate two popular Q&A Facebook Groups in the city of Bangalore, India and ask why people turn to Facebook Groups for the information needs, the nature of costs of using these groups for information search, and how Groups are groomed to host social Q&A practices. Our findings suggest that Facebook Groups can be popular venues for information search because of its structural features as well as the networked sociality that it engenders.
Pages/Duration:10 pages
URI/DOI:http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50147
ISBN:978-0-9981331-1-9
DOI:10.24251/HICSS.2018.260
Rights:Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Appears in Collections: Social Media and Communities


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