TY  - CHAP
AB  - Digital cameras and social networking have made photo-taking and photo-sharing more ubiquitous than ever before. In recent years, scholars and the popular press have raised concerns over the practice of posting photographs on social networking sites, especially when the images contain problematic or incriminating content. These concerns are often directed toward college students, who are among the most active users of social media. To that end, this chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the extent and emerging research pertaining to college students' photo-sharing habits on social networking sites. Much of our attention focuses on Facebook, which has emerged as the largest and fastest growing photo-sharing Web site in the world. While research on text-based disclosure will be addressed, a greater emphasis is placed on college students' photo-related behaviors, including uploading, viewing, tagging, and untagging photos. Further, this chapter discusses research on problematic or damaging content in college students' photos posted on Facebook, including depictions of alcohol use, drug use, and sexual promiscuity. This chapter provides a glimpse of some recent data (collected by the author) from a national sample of U.S. college students, which further shed light on their experiences and attitudes regarding their photo-related Facebook behaviors, the types of incriminating photos they report posting, and the consequences they have experienced due to visual images shared by themselves or others on Facebook. Finally, this chapter concludes with a discussion of the strategies utilized by college administrators, faculty, athletic coaches, and others within higher education to address the concerns and consequences often associated with college students and the photographs they share on Facebook and other social networking sites.
VL  - 5
SN  - 978-1-78052-456-6, 978-1-78052-457-3/2044-9968
DO  - 10.1108/S2044-9968(2012)0000005015
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-9968(2012)0000005015
AU  - Paradise Angela
ED  - Laura A. Wankel
ED  - Charles Wankel
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Chapter 13 Picture Perfect? College Students' Experiences and Attitudes Regarding their Photo-Related Behaviors on Facebook
T2  - Misbehavior Online in Higher Education
T3  - Cutting-Edge Technologies in Higher Education
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 261
EP  - 292
Y2  - 2024/04/18
ER  -