Presentation 2023-03-03
A Qualitative Examination of College Students' Twitter Usage Purposes in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ai Fukuzawa, Ye Shaoyu,
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Abstract(in English) We interviewed college students about the frequency of their Twitter posts, the content of their posts, and how they deal with unpleasant tweets when they see them, and examined the factors that promote or hinder the construction of social networks via Twitter, from the perspectives of both situational factors and personality factors. Three factors were identified as promoting social networking on Twitter: 1) high social tolerance, 2) opportunities for face-to-face encounters through Twitter, and 3) high motivation to connect with others on Twitter. Since most of the college students had face-to-face relationships with people other than family members, those who had tried to connect with others on Twitter in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic but were unable to do so tended to decrease their Twitter use as their face-to-face contacts increased.
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Keyword(in English) College students / Twitter / Coronavirus pandemic / communication
Paper # HCS2022-90
Date of Issue 2023-02-23 (HCS)

Conference Information
Committee HCS
Conference Date 2023/3/2(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Tokoha University(KusanagiCampus)
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Interaction modeling, etc.
Chair Tomoko Kanda(Osaka Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Yugo Hayashi(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Masashi Komori(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.)
Secretary Yugo Hayashi(Nihon Univ.) / Masashi Komori(Kanagawa Univ.)
Assistant HUANG HUNGHSUAN(Univ. of Fukuchiyama) / Jun Ichikawa(Shizuoka Univ.) / Kazuki Takashima(Tohoku Univ.) / Hiroto Saito(Tokyo Denki Univ.) / Ryo Ishii(NTT) / Yoshimasa Ohmoto(Shizuoka Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Human Communication Science
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) A Qualitative Examination of College Students' Twitter Usage Purposes in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sub Title (in English) Comparison by Posting Frequency
Keyword(1) College students
Keyword(2) Twitter
Keyword(3) Coronavirus pandemic
Keyword(4) communication
1st Author's Name Ai Fukuzawa
1st Author's Affiliation University of Tokyo(Tokyo Univ)
2nd Author's Name Ye Shaoyu
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(Tsukuba Univ)
Date 2023-03-03
Paper # HCS2022-90
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) HCS-413
Page pp.pp.82-87(HCS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2023-02-23 (HCS)