From its origins in social media usage, the term “sharing” has become an umbrella term for socio-technological competency. Even though sharing is a multifaceted construct – influenced by user motivations, expectations, and particularly the intrinsic and extrinsic social benefits to be gained – there are few definitions that approach it around these terms. We analyze these benefits in terms of what we call sociability affordances - i.e., social network site (SNS) affordances that arise outside either the merely material or imagined affordances - which enable individuals to take social actions toward social integration and interaction. Semi-structured interviews with young Chileans from three representative social media use typologies showed that each were closely linked with the performance of sharing actions for intrinsic and extrinsic social integration and interaction gains. Coding of interviews found four main sociability affordances from sharing practices: social visibility; audience engagement; social strengthening and enduring intra-personal communication. Based on U&G and self-determination theories, and rooted in an affordance approach, this study finds that online sharing behaviors are carefully weighed upon to achieve either factual or imagined social gains.
La crisis de representatividad política en Chile ha llevado a que la participación de jóvenes disminuya en elecciones y aumente en movimientos sociales. Estos cambios podrían afectar la forma en que perciben su capacidad para ejercer cambios mediante la política. El presente estudio transversal analiza, mediante escalas de autoreporte, las diferencias por género en la relación entre el sentido de eficacia política interna y la importancia otorgada a la participación política convencional y no convencional en una muestra de adolescentes chilenos (N = 949). Los resultados muestran que la importancia otorgada a la política convencional se asocia al sentido de eficacia política interna en hombres y mujeres, mientras que la importancia otorgada a la política no convencional solamente en mujeres. Los resultados se discuten en relación con la importancia de distintas formas de participación política en la formación de jóvenes ciudadanos políticos, en el contexto de las movilizaciones feministas.
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