Public Sphere, Virtualization, Rhizome: Communicative Practices of Runet Social Media

Social media as communicative genres

55 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 functionaliti...

alternative citizen media and the public sphere

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Political Social Media Sites as Public Sphere: A Case Study of the Norwegian Labour Party

Communicative Informatics: A Social Media Perspective for Online Communities

Individuals are active audience members that use Internet-based social media technologies to create and negotiate social action in online spaces. Communicative informatics is the key to constructing, describing or critiquing social media. Communicative informatics is the discovery of the audience, text/image, technology, negotiated place relationships that create symbolic meaning. Four proposit...

Social media in public health.

INTRODUCTION OR BACKGROUND While social media interactions are currently not fully understood, as individual health behaviors and outcomes are shared online, social media offers an increasingly clear picture of the dynamics of these processes. SOURCES OF DATA Social media is becoming an increasingly common platform among clinicians and public health officials to share information with the pub...