Making Sense of Society Through Social Media:

Social Media + Society

Axel Bruns¹ 

关键词: social media;    intermediation;    society;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2056305115578679

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

All media are social—they are after all media, in between, intermediating between producers and consumers of content, information, conversation, between the actors in the media and the audiences who read, listen, and watch. And the sociality of the media does not stop there: the processes of media production are social processes just as much as the activities of media audiencing. So strictly speaking, all media are social media. But only a particular subset of all media are fundamentally defined by their sociality, and thus distinguished from the mainstream media of print, radio, and television. It is the actual uses which are made of any medium which determine whether it is indeed a social medium—so let us investigate their roles in and interplay with the societies in which they operate.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC