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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Main Author: Mirca Madianou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-04-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115578675

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