Facebook’s Ideal User: Healthy Habits, Social Capital, and the Politics of Well-Being Online

Through an analysis of Facebook design blogs, funded social psychology and human–computer interaction (HCI) research, this article will demonstrate how Facebook “scripts” a discursive material configuration of ideal use. It will show how users are prompted toward habits of “healthy” active usership—...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niall Docherty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-04-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120915606