Social Media and Society, London, July, 2016 http://socialmediaandsociety.org/ Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces Dr Ella Taylor-Smith (@EllaTasm) and Dr Colin F. Smith www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/cf.smith
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Social Media and Society, London, July, 2016http://socialmediaandsociety.org/
Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces
Dr Ella Taylor-Smith (@EllaTasm) and Dr Colin F. Smith
Findings: most participation takes place in non-public spaces
Closed Facebook groups (and email)
Can see/ know likely audience.Defined boundaries and inhabitants.Like Goffman’s back region.
All social media spaces considered public for government employees.
Findings: free space =shared ownership
Ownership and cost
Free to the group: shared ownership (Cornwall’s Created Spaces).
Costs of social media diversifiedand moved to background, e.g. devices + Internet.(Polymedia: Madianou and Miller, 2012).
Findings: invisible, informational work
The Iceberg of participation
Hidden (non-public) worksupports public outputs.
Most work (and discussion) is organisation,not performance, or public deliberation.
Findings: photos
Photos
Practical and influential vehicles for emotion and information.
On social mediaand in e.g. Planning Committee hearing.
cf. affect and impact (Papacharissi, 2014)and Media Logic (Altheide, 2004)
Findings: Boundary objects
Facebook as Boundary Object
Information objects which support collaboration of people from different social worlds.
(Star and Griesemer, 1989)
End. Thanks. Questions.
However, social media spaces are mutable, permeable, and subjective spaces.
Dr Ella Taylor-Smith (@EllaTasm) and Dr Colin F. Smith,School of Computing,Edinburgh Napier University.
Woodcuts: thanks to Van Gogh Museum.
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