“What You Post in the Group Stays in the Group”: Examining the Affordances of Bounded Social Media Places

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-09-30 DOI:10.1177/20563051241285777

Pranav Malhotra

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Abstract

This study focuses on the affordances of bounded social media places (BSMPs), low visibility places within social media platforms like private messaging and private groups. While researchers have focused on BSMPs within specific platforms, this study presents a systematic examination of BSMPs across multiple platforms to facilitate theoretical durability. Interviews with users of BSMPs across diverse platforms ( N = 35) reveal that BSMPs discourage the affordance of visibility as they are considered private due to visibility management mechanisms and trust in known audiences. They encourage personalization as users believe they receive relevant content from and can send relevant content to specific audiences, in the absence of algorithms. BSMPs also encourage synchronicity by facilitating continuous conversations. The strength of encouragement or discouragement of these affordances varies across different BSMPs and is informed by users’ social positions. This study therefore contributes a framework and shared terminology for future research on BSMPs across social media.

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"你在群组中发布的内容将保留在群组中"：考察有限制的社交媒体场所的可承受性

本研究的重点是有界社交媒体场所（BSMPs）的承受能力，即社交媒体平台中的低可见度场所，如私人信息和私人群组。虽然研究人员关注的是特定平台中的 BSMPs，但本研究对多个平台中的 BSMPs 进行了系统研究，以促进理论的持久性。对不同平台上的 BSMP 用户（35 人）的访谈显示，BSMP 不鼓励可见性，因为它们被认为是私密的，这得益于可见性管理机制和对已知受众的信任。它们鼓励个性化，因为用户相信，在没有算法的情况下，他们可以从特定受众那里接收相关内容，也可以向特定受众发送相关内容。BSMP 还通过促进持续对话来鼓励同步性。在不同的 BSMP 中，鼓励或不鼓励这些功能的力度各不相同，并受用户社会地位的影响。因此，本研究为今后研究社交媒体上的 BSMP 提供了一个框架和共享术语。

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.