Twitter Chats as Third Places: Conceptualizing a Digital Gathering Site

Social media users can harness the interactivity and connectivity of social networking sites to create a sense of place in a digital environment. This article argues that regularly scheduled Twitter chats can function as digital third places, sites of online sociality that both mirror and deviate fr...

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Main Authors: John A. McArthur, Ashleigh Farley White
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-08-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116665857

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