Net Benefits: Digital Inequities in Social Capital, Privacy Preservation, and Digital Parenting Practices of U.S. Social Media Users
Net Benefits: Digital Inequities in Social Capital, Privacy Preservation, and Digital Parenting Practices of U.S. Social Media Users
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净收益：社会资本中的数字不平等、隐私保护以及美国社交媒体用户的数字育儿实践
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10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14997
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2018
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3
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Elissa M. Redmiles
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作者：
Elissa M. Redmiles
社交媒体的采用已被证明表现出数字不平等：社会人口背景与使用率高度相关。由于社交媒体的使用也被证明与重要的利益相关，主要是社会资本，低采用率可能意味着一部分人口没有获得这些利益。在这项工作中，我们研究了用户之间的社会媒体利益的公平性，引入并验证了两个新的社会媒体利益的存在：隐私保护行为的学习和父母参与儿童的社会媒体使用;并探讨其分布在社会媒体用户之间的公平性。为了得出可推广的结论，我们使用概率电话调查（n= 3，000），加权代表美国人口的回答在2.7%以内。我们令人遗憾地发现，基于教育程度的社交媒体采用率没有差异，并且发现低收入用户更有可能使用社交媒体。然而，我们发现福利的不平等：年龄较大和受教育程度较低的社交媒体用户报告几乎所有检查的福利程度较低。此外，我们发现了一个遗传的数字不平等的初步建议：使用社交媒体的父母，特别是那些受教育程度更高、收入更高的父母，更有可能帮助孩子设置隐私设置，并教他们安全的发帖行为。
Social media adoption has been shown to exhibit digital inequality: sociodemographic background has been highly correlated with usage rates. As social media use has also been shown to correlate with important benefits, chiefly social capital, low adoption rates can mean a portion of the population is not receiving these benefits. In this work, we examine the equity of social media benefits among users, introducing and validating the existence of two new social media benefits: learning of privacy-preserving behaviors and parental engagement in children's social media use; and explore the equity of their distribution among social media users. To draw generalizable conclusions, we use a probabilistic telephone survey (n=3,000), weighted to represent the responses of the U.S. population within 2.7%. We encouragingly find no difference in adoption of social media based on education and find that lower-income users are more likely to use social media. Yet, we find an inequality in benefits: older and less educated social media users report lower degrees of nearly all examined benefits. Further, we find preliminary suggestion of an inherited digital inequality: parents who use social media, especially those who are more educated and higher paid, are more likely both to help their children set up privacy settings and teach them safe posting behaviors.