Perceived Risks in Social Media Use – A Longitudinal Study Among University Students

TEEM 2016 ACM Conference2-5.11.2016 in Salamanca Spain

Perceived Risks in Social Media Use – A Longitudinal

Study Among University Students Dr Heli Aramo-Immonen

Dr Jari J. JussilaDr Ilona Ilvonen

Dr Nina HelanderTampere University of Technology

FINLAND

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RQ : What risks students experience in social media use?

Method and Sample

• The study was conducted among graduate students attending “Knowledge Management” course between the years 2014-2016

• A web-based survey was executed annually, with a total of 206 respondents.

• Tampere University of Technology• Triangulation among 4 researchers

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Social media risks identified in the literature

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Classification of perceived risks, in the order of frequency of observations

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Results

To Conclude

• We found that the privacy related risks were perceived more than in previous years

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To conclude, these experienced risks give us some indication that in order to utilize social media in

higher education practicing teachers should focus on training the social media skills but above all to lower the sociological barrier based risks. This could be for

example by discussing with students ethics, rules and web culture. Also further research questions

could rise from these subjects.

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Deadline for full paper submission - 10 January 2017

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Contact

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D.Sc(Tech)HeliAramo-ImmonenAdjunctProfessor,KnowledgeandInnovationManagementUniversityLecturer,IndustrialManagementandEngineeringTampereUniversityofTechnologyRoomB320FestiaTampereRoom335Porinyliopistokeskus+358408262931heli.aramo-immonen@tut.fiTwitter:@AramoHeliBlog:MyResearchandMorehttp://heliaramoimmonen.wordpress.com/skype:aramo-immonen