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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taina Bucher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-04-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115578138