Platform Specificities: The Platform Books Panel
Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. They have transformed our everyday practices as individuals, or social practices as small and large groups, and have multiple, entangled impacts on rituals of democracy and cultural (re)production, organization of labor and indu...
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| author | Kaye, D Bondy Valdovinos Zeng, Jing Wikstrom, Patrik Qiu, Jack Linchuan Hendry, Natalie Tiidenberg, Katrin Abidin, Crystal Highfield, Tim Leaver, Tama Bucher, Taina |
| author_facet | Kaye, D Bondy Valdovinos Zeng, Jing Wikstrom, Patrik Qiu, Jack Linchuan Hendry, Natalie Tiidenberg, Katrin Abidin, Crystal Highfield, Tim Leaver, Tama Bucher, Taina |
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| description | Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. They have transformed our everyday practices as individuals, or social practices as small and large groups, and have multiple, entangled impacts on rituals of democracy and cultural (re)production, organization of labor and industry. This panel brings together five papers, each by authors of recently published or forthcoming platform books. Together, the papers offer an analysis of TikTok, WeChat, Tumblr, Instagram and Facebook. Because of the book-length analyses preceding the panel, we are able to distill what is distinct and recognizable about these platforms – what we call ‘platform specificities’ and demonstrate how these specificities are shaping not only the experiences of the users of those platforms, but the social media ecosystem more broadly. The panel contributes to the ongoing discussion regarding platform power, social media and ways of making sense of social media, painting in board strokes plausible future developments to keep an eye on. The extended abstract holds a panel rationale and five extended abstracts for each analyzed platform. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-860692021-10-19T03:07:35Z Platform Specificities: The Platform Books Panel Kaye, D Bondy Valdovinos Zeng, Jing Wikstrom, Patrik Qiu, Jack Linchuan Hendry, Natalie Tiidenberg, Katrin Abidin, Crystal Highfield, Tim Leaver, Tama Bucher, Taina 2001 - Communication and Media Studies Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. They have transformed our everyday practices as individuals, or social practices as small and large groups, and have multiple, entangled impacts on rituals of democracy and cultural (re)production, organization of labor and industry. This panel brings together five papers, each by authors of recently published or forthcoming platform books. Together, the papers offer an analysis of TikTok, WeChat, Tumblr, Instagram and Facebook. Because of the book-length analyses preceding the panel, we are able to distill what is distinct and recognizable about these platforms – what we call ‘platform specificities’ and demonstrate how these specificities are shaping not only the experiences of the users of those platforms, but the social media ecosystem more broadly. The panel contributes to the ongoing discussion regarding platform power, social media and ways of making sense of social media, painting in board strokes plausible future developments to keep an eye on. The extended abstract holds a panel rationale and five extended abstracts for each analyzed platform. 2021 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86069 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12115 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | 2001 - Communication and Media Studies Kaye, D Bondy Valdovinos Zeng, Jing Wikstrom, Patrik Qiu, Jack Linchuan Hendry, Natalie Tiidenberg, Katrin Abidin, Crystal Highfield, Tim Leaver, Tama Bucher, Taina Platform Specificities: The Platform Books Panel |
| title | Platform Specificities: The Platform Books Panel |
| title_full | Platform Specificities: The Platform Books Panel |
| title_fullStr | Platform Specificities: The Platform Books Panel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Platform Specificities: The Platform Books Panel |
| title_short | Platform Specificities: The Platform Books Panel |
| title_sort | platform specificities: the platform books panel |
| topic | 2001 - Communication and Media Studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86069 |