CHRISTIAN FUCHS - ICT&S - Universität Salzburg

Christian Fuchs: Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Societythan undergraduate students. This higher degree of education might enable a certainshare of them to develop more critical outlooks on the world, including the topic ofsurveillance, than undergraduate students. Students with higher incomes are morelikely to be critical of surveillance. An explanation for this influence can be that higherincomes allow students to access more and more diverse information sources andcultural sources, which increases the likelihood that they are confronted with critiquesof surveillance.In our study, gender, the type and extension of higher education, class, and usagefrequency of social networking sites are factors that influence the degree of criticalconsciousness on surveillance.Female:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NMale:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NAge:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NUndergraduate Student:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NGraduate Student:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NDoctoral Student:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NSemesters:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NSocial Sciences, Humanities:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NNatural Sciences:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NEngineering Sciences:Correlation CoefficientSig. (2-tailed)NSurveillance Critique Index-0.200**0.0005480.200**0.0005480.1690.000613-0.0780.055613-0.0310.4406130.0950.0196130.120**0.0036010.196**0.000601-0.127**0.002601-0.0190.640601Fine Arts:Correlation Coefficient -0.08765