Self-disclosure and privacy calculus on social networking sites: the role of culture

Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have become extremely popular around the world. They rely on user-generated content to offer engaging experience to its members. Cultural differences may influence the motivation of users to create and share content on SNS. This study adopts the privacy calculus perspective to examine the role of culture in individual self-disclosure decisions. The authors use structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis to investigate this dynamics. The findings reveal the importance of cultural dimensions of individualism and uncertainty avoidance in the cognitive processes of SNS users.

Behind the curtains of privacy calculus on social networking sites: the study of Germany and the USA

As social networking sites (SNSs) become increasingly global, the issues of cultural differences in participation patterns become acute. However, current research offers only limited insights into the role of culture behind SNS usage. Aiming to fill this gap, this study adopts a ‘privacy calculus’ perspective to study the differences between German and American SNS users. Results of structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis reveal distinct variability in the cognitive patterns of American and German subjects. We contribute to the theory by rejecting the universal nature of privacy-calculus processes. From a practical standpoint, our results signal that SNS providers cannot rely on the “proven” means in ensuring user participation when crossing geographic boundaries. When financial means are limited, SNS providers should direct their investments into enhancing platform enjoyment and granting users with more control and, paradoxically, lobbying for more legalistic safeguards of user privacy.

Privacy Calculus on Social Networking Sites: Explorative Evidence from Germany and USA

Worldwide social networks, like Facebook, face fierce competition from local platforms when expanding globally. To remain attractive social network providers need to encourage user self-disclosure. Yet, little research exists on how cultural differences impact selfdisclosure on these platforms. Addressing this gap, this study explores the differences in perceptions of disclosure-relevant determinants between German and US users. Survey of Facebook members indicates that German users expect more damage and attribute higher probability to privacy-related violations. On the other hand, even though American users show higher level of privacy concern, they extract more benefits from their social networking activities, have more trust in the service provider and legal assurances as well as perceive more control. These factors may explain a higher level of self-disclosure indicated by American users. Our results provide relevant insights for the social network providers who can adjust their expansion strategy with regard to cultural differences.

Offenes Sendschreiben an Herrn Dr. Dramburg in Schubert, Mitglied mehrerer gelehrten Gesellschaften, Luft-Drucker, Pumpier, etc. etc.: Ich bin Ihnen sehr vielen Dank schuldig, daß Sie mich abgelöst haben ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Polemik gegen einen gewissen Dr. Schubert aus Dramburg (man beachte die Umstellung der Namen in der Überschrift), welcher offenbar kurz zuvor durch reaktionäre Äußerungen aufgefallen war

Schubert-Feier : (zum Konzert des jüdischen Gesangvereins anlässlich des hundertsten Todestages Franz Schuberts, gest. November 1828)

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The Devil’s Calculus: Mathematical Models of Civil War

In spite of the movement to turn political science into a real science, various mathematical methods that are now the staples of physics, biology, and even economics are thoroughly uncommon in political science, especially the study of civil war. This study seeks to apply such methods - specifically, ordinary differential equations (ODEs) - to model civil war based on what one might dub the capabilities school of thought, which roughly states that civil wars end only when one side’s ability to make war falls far enough to make peace truly attractive. I construct several different ODE-based models and then test them all to see which best predicts the instantaneous capabilities of both sides of the Sri Lankan civil war in the period from 1990 to 1994 given parameters and initial conditions. The model that the tests declare most accurate gives very accurate predictions of state military capabilities and reasonable short term predictions of cumulative deaths. Analysis of the model reveals the scale of the importance of rebel finances to the sustainability of insurgency, most notably that the number of troops required to put down the Tamil Tigers is reduced by nearly a full order of magnitude when Tiger foreign funding is stopped. The study thus demonstrates that accurate foresight may come of relatively simple dynamical models, and implies the great potential of advanced and currently unconventional non-statistical mathematical methods in political science.

Na 50 Nachlass Arthur Schopenhauer - 'Schopenhauer-Archiv', 26 - Brief mit textkritischen Anmerkungen an die beiden Herausgeber der Werkausgabe Immanuel Kants, Professor Karl Rosenkranz und Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert

u.a.: kritische Anmerkungen zu den Veränderungen von Immanuel Kant in der 2. Ausgabe der "Kritik der reinen Vernunft"; Berkleyischer Idealismus; rationale Psychologie; Kantbearbeitungen von Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi und David Hume; Gleichnis aus der Antike;

Franz Schubert, Brustbild

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F01790

Franz Schubert, Brustbild

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F01791