Digital Technology, Social Media, and Techno‐Social Life

Chayko, Mary

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“…Like other institutions, the doings of the Internet "entail distinct social practices that recur and repeat over time by group members" (Martin, 2004(Martin, , p. 1256), which we generally refer to as "sharing" (Chayko, 2017). Unlike sharing in other institutions, sharing through likes, retweets, follows, popularity, or advertising is an invisible commodity where users actively create, consume, and share digital artifacts for profit (Chayko, 2017). These gains can be for monetary profit.…”

Section: Making a Case For The Internet As A Social Institution The F...mentioning

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The Internet as a social institution: Rethinking concepts for family scholarship

Longo

2023

Family Relations

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I argue that scholars study the Internet as a social institution. This study employs a critical literature review of multi-disciplinary scholarship on the Internet, the family, and adjacent institutions comparing it to Patricia Yancy Martin's (2005) fourteen criteria of social institution to demonstrate how the Internet represents a new social institution, worthy of inquiry through its fourteen defining characteristics of endurance (persistence over time), social practices, conflicts, power struggles, identity formation, and change, among other criteria (Martin 2004; 1256). I, then, I discuss the potential starting points of digital data research methods for newcomers to the field, such as data acquisition, coding potential, and approaches to analysis. Conceptualizing the Internet as a social institution will ultimately improve the evaluation of peer-reviewed digital research, expand social theory more broadly, elevate our awareness of the Internet's sociality, and subject the interconnections of the social institution of the Internet and other social institutions to more critical investigations.

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Section: Making a Case For The Internet As A Social Institution The F...mentioning

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The Internet as a social institution: Rethinking concepts for family scholarship

Longo

2023

Family Relations

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“…This question involves the extent to which ‘different media technologies have different biases that spawn different social phenomena’ and whether a ‘single logic [exists] that unifies [the] print, radio, film, television, and mobile platforms’ (Waisbord, 2013: 184). On the other hand, there is the problematic of the socio-cultural uses of ICTs, their transmission across borders and their overall effect upon the diverse repertoire of human behaviour, termed ‘techno-social’ life (Chayko, 2018; Fuchs, 2008). In this case, attention is less focused on the presumed unique or uniform effects of the media as such and more on the interactivity and merging of technology, society and culture.…”

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Globalization, glocalization and the ICT revolution

Roudometof

2023

Global Media and Communication

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The article explores the relationship between globalization and the information and communications technology (ICT) revolution. The impact of ICTs does not conform to the globalization paradigm’s suggestions. To address this issue, this article argues that glocalization and localization should be viewed as autonomous processes. Glocalization offers a means for the interpretation of the ICT revolution in techno-social relationships. It leads to the reconstruction of places through digital means or newfound third spaces of glocality. In the first instance, ICTs often lead to a reconstruction of local places, whereas in the second instance, ICTs lead to glocalities.

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“…The second sub-hypothesis is based on a strong body of research that has shown how digital skills are positively related to flexibility in Internet use (Litt, 2013). From the several theoretical classifications of digital skills, we will focus on two: (a) the distinction between medium-oriented (knowing how to use technological devices) and content-oriented (ends and goals of digital practices) digital skills (Van Deursen and Van Dijk, 2010); (b) the EU Digital Competence Framework, which classifies digital skills in informational, communicational, digital content creation, safety and problem solving (Carretero Gomez et al, 2017). From these, we could operationalize medium-oriented, informational and safety skills (see Methodology).…”

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Digital practices across the UK population: The influence of socio-economic and techno-social variables in the use of the Internet

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Ruiu

2021

European Journal of Communication

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This article investigates the entanglement between socio-economic and technological factors in conditioning people's patterns of Internet use. We analysed the influence of sociodemographic and techno-social aspects in conditioning the distinctive digital practices developed by Internet users. By using a representative sample of UK users and different methods of analysis, such as factor analysis, K-means cluster analysis and logit analysis, this study shows how techno-social variables have a stronger effect than socio-economic variables in explaining the advanced use of the Internet.

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Digital Technology, Social Media, and Techno‐Social Life

Cited by 23 publications

References 41 publications

The Internet as a social institution: Rethinking concepts for family scholarship

The Internet as a social institution: Rethinking concepts for family scholarship

Globalization, glocalization and the ICT revolution

Digital practices across the UK population: The influence of socio-economic and techno-social variables in the use of the Internet

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