TY  - JOUR
A1  - Meythaler, Antonia
A1  - Krause, Hannes-Vincent
A1  - Baumann, Annika
A1  - Krasnova, Hanna
A1  - Thatcher, Jason Bennett
T1  - The rise of metric-based digital status
BT  - an empirical investigation into the role of status perceptions in envy on social networking sites
JF  - European Journal of Information Systems
N2  - Widespread on social networking sites (SNSs), envy has been linked to an array of detrimental outcomes for users’ well-being. While envy has been considered a status-related emotion and is likely to be experienced in response to perceiving another’s higher status, there is a lack of research exploring how status perceptions influence the emergence of envy on SNSs. This is important because SNSs typically quantify social interactions and reach with metrics that indicate users’ relative rank and status in the network. To understand how status perceptions impact SNS users, we introduce a new form of metric-based digital status rooted in SNS metrics that are available and visible on a platform. Drawing on social comparison theory and status literature, we conducted an online experiment to investigate how different forms of status contribute to the proliferation of envy on SNSs. Our findings shed light on how metric-based digital status influences feelings of envy on SNSs. Specifically, we could show that metric-based digital status impacts envy through increasing perceptions of others’ socioeconomic and sociometric statuses. Our study contributes to the growing discourse on the negative outcomes associated with SNS use and its consequences for users and society.
KW  - social networking sites
KW  - metric-based digital status
KW  - social comparisons
KW  - social status
KW  - envy
KW  - experiment
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2023.2290707
SN  - 0960-085X
SN  - 1476-9344
SP  - 1
EP  - 28
PB  - Taylor and Francis
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Guerrero, Tania P.
A1  - Fickel, Jörns
A1  - Benhaiem, Sarah
A1  - Weyrich, Alexandra
T1  - Epigenomics and gene regulation in mammalian social systems
JF  - Current zoology
N2  - Social epigenomics is a new field of research that studies how the social environment shapes the epigenome and how in turn the epigenome modulates behavior. We focus on describing known gene-environment interactions (GEIs) and epigenetic mechanisms in different mammalian social systems. To illustrate how epigenetic mechanisms integrate GEls, we highlight examples where epigenetic mechanisms are associated with social behaviors and with their maintenance through neuroendocrine, locomotor, and metabolic responses. We discuss future research trajectories and open questions for the emerging field of social epigenomics in nonmodel and naturally occurring social systems. Finally, we outline the technological advances that aid the study of epigenetic mechanisms in the establishment of GEIs and vice versa.
KW  - epigenetics
KW  - DNA methylation
KW  - histone modification
KW  - rank
KW  - social status
KW  - social systems
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa005
SN  - 1674-5507
SN  - 2396-9814
VL  - 66
IS  - 3
SP  - 307
EP  - 319
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -