2020
DOI: 10.1177/1461444820939458
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Liking as taste making: Social media practices as generators of aesthetic valuation and distinction

Abstract: Much research has been conducted on how social media platforms are used as outlets of taste expression, displaying cultural preferences acquired outside the platforms. This research largely builds on the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and his analysis of taste as a medium of social distinction. We propose to shift the emphasis from the study of taste expression to an analysis of taste making on social media. This shift is occasioned by broader cultural transformations since the 1990s as well as developm… Show more

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“…The notion of identity as a social performance has proven useful to explore the ways in which users respond to the specificities of digital spaces, including a range of work exploring specific online features as new forms of social identity performance, such as location check-ins (Bertel 2016) or 'liking' posts online (Paßmann & Schubert, 2020), to sexual interactions online (Tiidenberg and van der Nagel 2020). As Paßmann & Schubert, (2020, 3) note in their discussion of 'liking' on social media as a form of social taste making, these uses of digital affordances complicate our understanding of the relationship between design and social performances as they are:…”
Section: Identity By Designmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The notion of identity as a social performance has proven useful to explore the ways in which users respond to the specificities of digital spaces, including a range of work exploring specific online features as new forms of social identity performance, such as location check-ins (Bertel 2016) or 'liking' posts online (Paßmann & Schubert, 2020), to sexual interactions online (Tiidenberg and van der Nagel 2020). As Paßmann & Schubert, (2020, 3) note in their discussion of 'liking' on social media as a form of social taste making, these uses of digital affordances complicate our understanding of the relationship between design and social performances as they are:…”
Section: Identity By Designmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Diagnostisch relevanter ist aber, dass soziale Medien die von Peterson, Holt, Prieur und Savage beschriebenen kulturellen Transformationen in eigentümlicher Weise amplifizieren. Aus einer sozialen Ordnung, die durch die Verortung aktiver Subjekte in einem Netz passiver Objekte funktionierte, wird in vielen Bereichen eine der wechselseitigen Verfertigung von Subjekt und Objekt (und der Medien, mit denen diese Verfertigung praktiziert wird, Paßmann & Schubert, 2020a).…”
Section: Objektivation Als Diagnostischer Indexunclassified
“…Dass es solche Methoden des Objekt-Vergleichs gibt, ist konstitutiv für das doing objects online: Die Objekte können miteinander verglichen werden, verfeinert oder abgewertet, wenn deren Nicht-Singularität auffällt, und auch der spezifische taste der Leser*innen kann sich ganz anders entwickeln, wenn es solche Möglichkeiten des infiniten Vergleichs gibt (Paßmann & Schubert, 2020a). Andererseits ist es für digitale Medienpraktiken ebenso üblich, diesen Vergleich der eigenen Objekte mit denen der anderen nicht oder nur sehr bedingt vorzunehmen.…”
Section: Objektivation Als Diagnostischer Indexunclassified
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“…The use of Bourdieu's theory of taste, which uses taste analysis as a medium of social difference, studies taste expression and shifts towards the production of tastes. This taste production uses social media platforms, showing that subjects, objects, and media produce each other as a taste triangle (Paßmann & Schubert, 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%