Social media as communicative genres
<p>As a focus of study, ‘social media’ tend to lack definitional clarity and grounding in theories of media and text. This paper establishes and discusses a conceptual framework for defining social media as communicative genres, constituted by the interplay between interactive functionalities...
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Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
2011-08-01
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| Series: | MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research |
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| author | Stine Lomborg |
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| description | <p>As a focus of study, ‘social media’ tend to lack definitional clarity and grounding in theories of media and text. This paper establishes and discusses a conceptual framework for defining social media as communicative genres, constituted by the interplay between interactive functionalities configured at the software level and the invocation and appropriation of various software functionalities to achieve specific purposes in and through users’ actual communicative practices. I suggest that social media might be seen as particularly dynamic genres, subject to continuous disruption and uncertainty,owing to their deinstitutionalised and participatory character, and the shifting roles of producers and recipients in the networks and conversations that make up social media content.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a539c455c2c4dfba82cad59f24dfa302022-12-21T18:21:41ZdanSammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research0900-96711901-97262011-08-0127514894Social media as communicative genresStine Lomborg0University of Copenhagen<p>As a focus of study, ‘social media’ tend to lack definitional clarity and grounding in theories of media and text. This paper establishes and discusses a conceptual framework for defining social media as communicative genres, constituted by the interplay between interactive functionalities configured at the software level and the invocation and appropriation of various software functionalities to achieve specific purposes in and through users’ actual communicative practices. I suggest that social media might be seen as particularly dynamic genres, subject to continuous disruption and uncertainty,owing to their deinstitutionalised and participatory character, and the shifting roles of producers and recipients in the networks and conversations that make up social media content.</p>http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/4012social mediagenre theorygenre dynamics |
| spellingShingle | Stine Lomborg Social media as communicative genres MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research social media genre theory genre dynamics |
| title | Social media as communicative genres |
| title_full | Social media as communicative genres |
| title_fullStr | Social media as communicative genres |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social media as communicative genres |
| title_short | Social media as communicative genres |
| title_sort | social media as communicative genres |
| topic | social media genre theory genre dynamics |
| url | http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/4012 |
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