Context collapse: theorizing context collusions and collisions

Davis, Jenny; Jurgenson, Nathan

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2014.888458

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“…It follows that the potential longevity of photographs, videos, and other media posted containing, and pertaining to, young people, amplifies the number of potential contexts across the lifetime of the young person in question. The resulting context collapse (Marwick & boyd, 2011), or context collision (Davis & Jurgenson, 2014), presents a level of uncertainty and potential challenges that young people and their parents must learn to navigate together.…”

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Intimate Surveillance: Normalizing Parental Monitoring and Mediation of Infants Online

Leaver

2017

Social Media + Society

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Parents are increasingly sharing information about infants online in various forms and capacities. To more meaningfully understand the way parents decide what to share about young people and the way those decisions are being shaped, this article focuses on two overlapping areas: parental monitoring of babies and infants through the example of wearable technologies and parental mediation through the example of the public sharing practices of celebrity and influencer parents. The article begins by contextualizing these parental practices within the literature on surveillance, with particular attention to online surveillance and the increasing importance of affect. It then gives a brief overview of work on pregnancy mediation, monitoring on social media, and via pregnancy apps, which is the obvious precursor to examining parental sharing and monitoring practices regarding babies and infants. The examples of parental monitoring and parental mediation will then build on the idea of "intimate surveillance" which entails close and seemingly invasive monitoring by parents. Parental monitoring and mediation contribute to the normalization of intimate surveillance to the extent that surveillance is (re)situated as a necessary culture of care. The choice to not survey infants is thus positioned, worryingly, as a failure of parenting.

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Intimate Surveillance: Normalizing Parental Monitoring and Mediation of Infants Online

Leaver

2017

Social Media + Society

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“…Users are heavily reliant on an imagined audience while sharing a status update because they often navigate through "context collapse" (boyd, 2008;Davis & Jurgenson, 2014;Marwick & boyd, 2011;Meyrowitz, 1985;Vitak, 2012), in which they interact with and broadcast to large audiences filled with people from a variety of life spheres (e.g., Hampton, Goulet, Marlow, & Rainie, 2012;Marwick & boyd, 2011;Quinn, 2014). This audience composition may lead to a dependence on an imagined audience as it may be difficult cognitively to attend to so many different people at once (Dunbar, 1992).…”

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The Imagined Audience on Social Network Sites

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Hargittai

2016

Social Media + Society

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When people construct and share posts on social network sites like Facebook and Twitter, whom do they imagine as their audience? How do users describe this imagined audience? Do they have a sub-audience in mind (e.g., "friends who like reality television")? Do they share more broadly and abstractly (e.g., "the public")? Do such imaginings fluctuate each time a person posts? Using a mixed-methods approach involving a 2-month-long diary study of 119 diverse American adults and their 1,200 social network site posts, supplemented with follow-up interviews (N = 30), this study explores the imagined audience on social network sites. The findings reveal that even though users often interacted with large diverse audiences as they posted, they coped by envisioning either very broad abstract imagined audiences or more targeted specific imagined audiences composed of personal ties, professional ties, communal ties, and/or phantasmal ties. When people had target imagined audiences in mind, they were most often homogeneous and composed of people's friends and family. Users' imaginings typically fluctuated among these audience types as they posted even though the potential audience as per their posts' privacy settings often did not change. The findings provide a list of audience types, as well as detailed descriptions, examples, and frequencies on which future research can build. With people's online presence playing an important role for their reputations, these findings provide more insight into for whom people are managing their privacy and whom they have in mind as they share.

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“…Davis and Jurgenson review how the collapse of social contexts is a noted characteristic of interactions in networked publics, and distinguish between context collision, or accidental collapse, and context collusion, or intentional collapse. [42] As more of academic discussion moves to open access journals and more researchers encounter each other online, the mechanism of context collapse plays more of a role in the encounters between normally contextually separated academic disciplines. These collapses may be disciplinary collisions or disciplinary collusions.…”

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“…This paper itself is an attempt at disciplinary collapse modeled on context collusion. [7] I offer disciplinary collapse within recursive publics as an alternative to a pessimism about our ability to contend in a scholarly way with powerful algorithms. [8] In the final section of this paper, I open the research problem of designing a recursive networked public suitable for our own scholarly communication.…”

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Designing Networked Publics for Communicative Action

Benthall¹

2015

Interface: A Special Topics Journal

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Context collapse: theorizing context collusions and collisions

Cited by 274 publications

References 27 publications

Intimate Surveillance: Normalizing Parental Monitoring and Mediation of Infants Online

Intimate Surveillance: Normalizing Parental Monitoring and Mediation of Infants Online

The Imagined Audience on Social Network Sites

Designing Networked Publics for Communicative Action

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