Why Is One Social Media Platform Not Enough? A Typology of Platform-Swinging Behavior and Associated Affordance Preferences

This study seeks to advance the scholarship on the phenomenon of social media platform-swinging in the context of the polymedia environment in China. Specifically, drawing on the theoretical frameworks of uses and gratifications and channel complementarity theory, we propose that the platform-swingi...

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Main Authors: Xueying Wang, Meng Chen, Wei Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-05-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241254373