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Social Network Sites as Networked Publics – danah boyd

in Media theory comfort reads by Cian Kavanagh

Social Network Sites as Networked Publics – danah boyd on “Media theory comfort reads”, a list by Cian Kavanagh on TheLysts.

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Year
2010
Type
Book chapter / scholarly essay
Core idea
Social network sites create “networked publics” shaped by persistence, searchability, replicability and invisible audiences.
How I use it
As the conceptual skeleton when I’m trying to explain to non-academics why a throwaway post can haunt you like a particularly clingy ghost.
My take
If Benjamin gives you aura, boyd gives you affordances—the practical checklist for understanding what makes online visibility feel so weird.