著者

水沼 友宏 菅原 真紀 池内 淳 MIZUNUMA Yuhiro IKEUCHI Atsushi

出版者

情報社会学会

雑誌

情報社会学会誌 = The Journal of the Infosocionomics Society (ISSN:18810101)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.1, pp.23-37, 2013-05

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Social media such as Facebook and Twitter has been rapidly expanding over the past few years and the number of users reached about1 billion in 2012 all over the world. Users can mutually communicate their friends or general public by social media. Unlike otherexisting media on Internet, users easily disclose their personal information for the purpose of connecting with other users on socialmedia. Along with the rapid growth, each user may have various manners or norms on social media. However, the answer to “Whatkind of norm do users have?” or “Do they actually behave according to the norms?” is not given. The aim of this study is to clarifyuniversity students’ norms and actual behavior on Twitter. In November 2012, the authors conducted questionnaire survey for studentsof 13 universities in Japan. The result shows that each user has their own behavioral norms, especially many users are stronglyconscious about privacy and copyright on Twitter. Moreover it was found that the norms are different by gender, although frequency ofuse does not affected users’ norms.