Networking, or What the Social Means in Social Media
This article questions the meaning of the social in social media. It does this by revisiting boyd and Ellison’s seminal paper and definition of social network sites. The article argues that social media are not so much about articulating or making an existing network visible. Rather, being social in...
Main Author: | Taina Bucher |
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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/10.1177/2056305115578138 |
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