Facebook as a space for agency: negotiations by users and non-users
The Web’s architecture sets conditions for how people communicate, interact and act online in general and on social network sites (SNSs) in particular. Users and non-users of Facebook were invited to focus groups in order to create an understanding of Facebook as a technology-afforded space for agen...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Body, Space & Technology Journal |
| Online Access: | https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/48 |
| Summary: | The Web’s architecture sets conditions for how people communicate, interact and act online in general and on social network sites (SNSs) in particular. Users and non-users of Facebook were invited to focus groups in order to create an understanding of Facebook as a technology-afforded space for agency and to illuminate the variety of meanings given to it. The aim of this study is to identify user and non-user stances to the possibilities of action and actor roles – understood in terms of mediated agency – enabled by SNSs, particularly Facebook. The negotiation of Facebook’s nature as a space is scrutinised using concepts of connectedness and connectivity as analytical lenses. |
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| ISSN: | 1470-9120 |