[Air-L] Definitions for Social Media Sites

Mon Sep 25 10:49:36 PDT 2017

All,

Superb suggestions so far. I would add to the boyd and Ellison starting point two follow-up articles that, together, deepen and reconsider their definition:

Beer, David. 2008. “Social Network(ing) Sites…revisiting the Story so Far: A Response to danah boyd & Nicole Ellison.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13 (2): 516–29.
Ellison, Nicole, and danah boyd. 2013. “Sociality through Social Network Sites.” In The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies., edited by William H. Dutton, 151–72. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Then I would point to those who have tried to clarify the definition of "platform" (some of these are noted in the Fuchs intro):

Burgess, Jean, and Joshua Green. 2009. YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Gillespie, Tarleton. 2010. “The Politics of ‘Platforms.’” New Media & Society 12 (3): 347–64. doi:10.1177/1461444809342738.
Elkin-Koren, Niva. 2010. “User-Generated Platforms.” In Working within the Boundaries of Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society, edited by Rochelle Dreyfuss, Diane Zimmerman, and Harry First. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Van Dijck, José. 2013. The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford University Press.
Gehl, Robert W. 2014. Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.
Plantin, Jean-Christophe, Carl Lagoze, Paul N. Edwards, and Christian Sandvig. 2016. “Infrastructure Studies Meet Platform Studies in the Age of Google and Facebook.” New Media & Society, 1461444816661553.
Gillespie, Tarleton. “The platform metaphor, revisited” HIIG Science Blog (August 23, 2017). https://www.hiig.de/en/blog/the-platform-metaphor-revisited/

And, if I might be so bold, I'm putting the finishing touches on a book about platforms and the project of content moderation. The first and last chapters argue that focusing on content moderation should change how we understand platforms themselves. The relevant parts of of those two chapters to this discussion, where I articulate my definition of 'platform' and summarize scholars who have thought of platforms as media, as markets, and as architecture. (This is work still in progress, and I hope to redo this excerpt as I revisit more and more of the writing being suggested here, so offline comments are most welcome.)
http://bit.ly/definingplatforms

Tarleton

On Sep 25, 2017, 1:38 PM -0400, Elena Pavan <elena.pavan at sns.it>, wrote:
Another piece that connects social media to user generated contents and
distinguishes between different types of platforms is

Kaplan, A. M. and M. Haenlein. 2010. “Users of the world, unite! The
challenges and opportunities of Social Media”. Business Horizion 53: 59-68.

hope this helps!
ciao
elena

Il 25/09/2017 18:55, Eddington, Sean M ha scritto:
You might also find Chapter 2 of The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2017) useful: “What is Social Media and What Questions Can Social Media Research Help Us Answer?” by Lori McCay-Peet and Anabel Quan-Haase.

Sean
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of "Aaron S. Veenstra" <aaron at etchouse.com
Date: Monday, September 25, 2017 at 12:34 PM
To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Definitions for Social Media Sites

One thing worth noting about the boyd and Ellison piece -- which is
often cited to define "social media" -- is that they don't define
social media in there. The term "social media" appears only once in
that paper, as part of the background ("Furthermore, as the social
media and user-generated content phenomena grew, websites focused on
media sharing began implementing SNS features and becoming SNSs
themselves. Examples include Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music
listening habits), and YouTube (video sharing)." pg. 216). They
explicitly define "social network sites," which they explicitly
differentiate from "networking" sites.

Aaron

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Joshua Braun <jabraun at journ.umass.edu<mailto:jabraun at journ.umass.edu>> wrote:
Hello! I'm sure there'll be lots of great suggestions forthcoming, but
I'd recommend boyd & Ellison's "Social Network Sites: Definition,
History, and Scholarship" as a starting point:

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Cheers,
Josh

On 09/25/2017 12:23 PM, Hayes, Rebecca M wrote:
First of all I have found this group to be an amazing resource. So thank you.

Second, I am a criminologist who researches social media, so I am still learning. That said, I am looking for a good and trusted academic resource for definitions for social media sites. It could be a book, or a website, but I am attempting to provide appropriate definitions for reddit, 4chan, YikYak, etc.

What is a go-to source for that?

Thank you in advance!

Best,

Becky

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