How Young Users Deal With Multiple Platforms: The Role of Meaning-Making in Social Media Repertoires

Boczkowski, Pablo J.; Matassi, Mora; Mitchelstein, Eugenia

doi:10.1093/jcmc/zmy012

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“…Moreover, learning that social media does not simply cater everything that is posted by any user they follow, but makes algorithmic choices in order to keep them engaged and presents what makes interactions more probable can have such an impact. In certain regards, the notion of personal epistemology of the media relates to Gershon’s (2010) work on media ideologies, which was recently paired with media repertoires by Boczkowski et al (2018a). Gershon (2010) focuses on media ideologies as a set of beliefs regarding media that enables an understanding of how and why people use media technologies for various communicative ends.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Personal epistemologies of the media: Selective criticality, pragmatic trust, and competence–confidence in navigating media repertoires in the digital age

Schwarzenegger

2020

New Media & Society

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While the perils of social media, fake news, and an alleged distrust in legacy media have attained considerable public attention, the implications of these public narratives for their audiences have remained understudied. The aim of this article is to identify consequences of an emerged “fake news and post truth-era-narrative” for media users’ personal epistemologies, media beliefs, and news navigation practices from a media repertoire perspective. Forty-nine in-depth media-biographical interviews with people from three different age groups and with different media repertoires were conducted. Based on the study, the three interrelated dimensions (1) selective criticality, (2) pragmatic trust, and (3) competence–confidence were developed to analyze users’ media and news navigation. These three dimensions can be applied to other scenarios to investigate how people navigate their media repertoires and interact with the news in general.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Personal epistemologies of the media: Selective criticality, pragmatic trust, and competence–confidence in navigating media repertoires in the digital age

Schwarzenegger

2020

New Media & Society

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“…According to Walther's (1996) hyperpersonal model, the reason behind this effect is that "CMC partners may select and express communication behaviors that are more stereotypically desirable in achieving their social goals and transmit messages free of the 'noise' that otherwise comes with unintended appearance or behavior features" (28-29). That noise, or the unpredictability of the impulses surrounding interpersonal communication, is limited by the asynchronicity of the posted messages and the constrained number of cues that CMC communication, especially in MIMs, offers to its participants (see Boczkowski, Matassi, and Mitchelstein 2018). Partially, the later could explain the use of emojis in the exchanges between sources and journalists.…”

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Reporting with WhatsApp: Mobile Chat Applications’ Impact on Journalistic Practices

Dodds

2019

Digital Journalism

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Since its release in August 2009, WhatsApp has played a key role in the fast development and expansion of the contemporary polymedia environment within which humans interact with each other. Those in the media, and journalists in particular, have taken to this platform to use it as a way to share and receive information as well as to maintain regular, and sometimes more private, contact with their sources. The goal of this paper is to examine the incentives that underlie journalists' decisions to turn to WhatsApp and the consequences that this mobile chat application has had on the newsmaking practices of reporters inside two Chilean newsrooms. Newsroom ethnography, including participant observation, is employed in this study to gain insight into journalists' routines and their everyday usage of WhatsApp. The conclusions of this article suggest that the utilization of WhatsApp has impacted the relationship between journalists and sources both on a personal and professional level. New perceptions of intimacy and trust, camaraderie and obtainability, and temporality are observed among the journalists who use this application. These observations carry important professional and ethical implications for journalists navigating today's media ecology, and show how technological and socioprofessional aspects are tightly interwoven.

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“…Our findings indicate, for example, that FAWM is used for the collaborative production of song sketches that, in later stages, are promoted as polished songs on platforms such as Facebook or Soundcloud. Collaborative dynamics, then, not only unfold in the "division of labor" between online communities (for idea generation) and firms (for idea exploitation; e.g., Cohendet & Simon, 2015), but also in complex online ecologies (e.g., Boczkowski et al, 2018); it is these ecologies of innovation that deserve further academic attention.…”

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“…As a result, innovation processes today unfold in complex ecologies of relationships among firms, online and offline communities, and digital platforms (e.g., Boczkowski, Matassi, & Eugenia Mitchelstein, 2018;Grabher, Melchior, Schiemer, Schüßler, & Sydow, 2018). Innovation in the automotive industry, for instance, involves not only strategic alliances among competing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), but also cross-industry alliances involving developers of autonomous driving technologies, ride-hailing and open-source mapping platforms, as well as user communities.…”

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Collaborative Innovation Online: Entanglements of the Making of Content, Skills, and Community on a Songwriting Platform

Schiemer¹,

Grabher²,

Schüßler³

2019

Managing Inter-Organizational Collaborations: Process Views

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This chapter advances our understanding of collaborative innovation processes that span across organizational boundaries by providing an ethnographic account of idea generation dynamics in a member-initiated online songwriting community. Applying a science and technology studies perspective on processes "in the making," the findings of this chapter reveal the generative entanglements of three processes of content-in-the-making, skill-in-the-making, and community-in-the-making that were triggered and maintained over time by temporary stabilizations of provisional, interim outcomes. These findings also elucidate interferences between these three processes, particularly when an increased focus on songs as products undermines the ongoing collaborative production of ideas. Regular interventions in the community design were necessary to simultaneously stimulate the three processes and counteract interfering tendencies that either prioritized content production, community building, or

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How Young Users Deal With Multiple Platforms: The Role of Meaning-Making in Social Media Repertoires

Cited by 133 publications

References 40 publications

Personal epistemologies of the media: Selective criticality, pragmatic trust, and competence–confidence in navigating media repertoires in the digital age

Personal epistemologies of the media: Selective criticality, pragmatic trust, and competence–confidence in navigating media repertoires in the digital age

Reporting with WhatsApp: Mobile Chat Applications’ Impact on Journalistic Practices

Collaborative Innovation Online: Entanglements of the Making of Content, Skills, and Community on a Songwriting Platform

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