@inproceedings{501ff6ab05114e8e812dad388e77706d,
title = "Influences and benefits of role models on social media",
abstract = "The current paper examined three research questions. First, what are the perceived benefits for social network users who have role models online? Second, to what extent does having role models online influence one{\textquoteright}s self-presentation on social media? And finally, are users who expect more in return (greater reciprocity) more likely to have role models on social media? Using two opportunity survey samples and exploratory analyses, study 1 (N = 236) demonstrated that having role models was associated with greater perceived support for one{\textquoteright}s career aspirations, and perceived access to information. The results of study 2 (N = 192) revealed that participants who had role models online reported that their online profile presented a more realistic self-presentation of values and priorities, as well as having higher reciprocity expectation.",
keywords = "Information-seeking, Reciprocity expectations, Role model, Social media",
author = "Lyndsey Jenkins and Ruoyun Lin and Debora Jeske",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016.; 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2016 ; Conference date: 13-09-2016 Through 15-09-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-45234-0\_60",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319452333",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "673--684",
editor = "Dwivedi, \{Yogesh K.\} and Marc Clement and Slade, \{Emma L.\} and Rana, \{Nripendra P.\} and M.N. Ravishankar and Matti M{\"a}ntym{\"a}ki and Marijn Janssen and Salah Al-Sharhan and Simintiras, \{Antonis C.\}",
booktitle = "Social Media",
address = "Germany",
}