Polymedia and Ethnography: Understanding the Social in Social Media
In this essay I argue that social media need to be understood as part of complex environments of communicative opportunities which I conceptualize as polymedia. This approach shifts our attention from social media as discrete platforms to the ways users navigate environments of affordances in order...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-04-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115578675 |